Trish Adlesic
Patricia "Trish" Adlesic is an American documentary film director and producer. She has been nominated for two Academy Awards.
Trish Adlesic
- Name
- Trish Adlesic
- Birth Name
- Patricia Adlesic
- Birthplace
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
- Occupation
- * Film director
- Education
- Hunter College
- Nationality
- United States
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Patricia "Trish" Adlesic is an American documentary film director and producer. She has been nominated for two Academy Awards.
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• Name — Trish Adlesic • Birth Name — Patricia Adlesic • Birthplace — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. • Occupation — * Film director • producer • location manager • Education — Hunter College • Years Active — 1990–present
Early life
Early life
Adlesic was born in Pittsburgh, the youngest of six children of Mary and Joseph Adlesic; her mother was a nurse and her father worked in education. She is of Irish and Slovenian descent. She graduated from Shaler Area High School and attended Hunter College, majoring in communications and psychology with a minor in music theory.
Career
Career
She worked as a location manager on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, where she met actress Mariska Hargitay. When Hargitay wanted to make a documentary about the American rape kit backlog, she asked Adlesic to co-direct. The documentary, titled I Am Evidence, was released in 2017. The following year, Adlesic had been visiting her father in Pittsburgh when the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting occurred. After the shooting, she moved back to Pittsburgh and spent the next three years directing and co-producing A Tree of Life: The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting. In 2025, she collaborated once again with Mariska Hargitay, producing Hargitay's feature directorial debut film My Mom Jayne, which premiered at the 78th Cannes Film Festival.
As director and producer
As director and producer
• Year — Title — Director — Producer — Notes — Reference • 2010 — Gasland • 2013 — Gasland Part II • 2017 — I Am Evidence • 2022 — A Tree of Life: The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting • Pay or Die — Executive • 2023 — The ABCs of Book Banning — Short film • 2025 — My Mom Jayne • Nuns vs. The Vatican — Executive
Television
Television
• Year — Title — Notes — Reference • 1990–1993 — Law & Order — Location coordinator • 1994–1995 — The Cosby Mysteries — Location manager • 1999–2014 — Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Location manager
Film
• Year — Title — Notes — Reference • 1993 — Household Saints — Post-production supervisor • 1995 — The Basketball Diaries — Assistant location manager • 1996 — Night Falls on Manhattan — Assistant location manager • 1997 — Gold in the Streets — Location manager • As Good as It Gets — Assistant location manager • 1998 — Black Dog — Location manager • My Husband's Secret Life — Location manager • Meet Joe Black — Assistant location manager • 1999 — The Insider — Location manager • 2000 — Finding Forrester — Location manager • Looking for an Echo — Production supervisor • 2002 — In America — Production supervisor • 2005 — Get Rich or Die Tryin — Production supervisor • 2007 — Dinosaurs Alive! — Unit production manager
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- “Trish Adlesic”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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Awards and nominations
• Award — Year — Category — Nominated work — Result — Reference • Academy Awards — 2011 — Best Documentary Feature Film — Gasland • 2024 — Best Documentary Short Film — The ABCs of Book Banning • Cinema Eye Honors — 2019 — Outstanding Achievement in a Nonfiction Film for Broadcast — I Am Evidence • Cleveland International Film Festival — 2018 — ReelWomenDirect Award for Excellence in Directing by a Woman • Local Heroes Competition • Hamptons International Film Festival — 2017 — Victor Rabinowitz and Joanne Grant Award for Social Justice • News and Documentary Emmy Awards — 2014 — Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Research — Gasland Part II • 2019 — Best Documentary — I Am Evidence • Outstanding Investigative Documentary • Primetime Emmy Awards — 2011 — Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking — Gasland • Producers Guild of America Awards — 2026 — Outstanding Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures — My Mom Jayne • Provincetown International Film Festival — 2017 — Audience Award for Best Documentary — I Am Evidence • Traverse City Film Festival — 2017 — Best Documentary Film • Windsor International Film Festival — 2017 — Women of WIFF
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