Adam Barnick attended New York's School of Visual Arts for filmmaking, while assisting in production and special effects for theater and independent films. Afterwards he returned to the city, assisting on commercials produced locally for Japanese television.

As a writer/director, Adam’s most recent short film Mainstream has played six international festivals and opened the New York City Horror Film Festival’s theatrical screenings its year of release. Fangoria Magazine and Koch Vision acquired it for worldwide distribution on their FANGORIA BLOOD DRIVE II: America's Best Short Horror Films DVD, now available for rental and sale everywhere. That same year Adam was named 'One of the top 5 genre filmmakers to watch in 2006 and beyond' by The Horror Newsletter. Mainstream was voted one of the top 5 horror films of the year by the editor of Horror-Movies.ca, as well as being featured in numerous print, radio and online articles in the top genre websites.

He is currently developing two new short narrative films, OUTSIDE THE BOX and Rooted; which he plans to direct before helming his first feature-length film.

His company Wicked Tree Films has recently collaborated with Mind's Eye International, Anchor Bay Entertainment, Leomax Pictures, Starz Home Entertainment, Ariescope Pictures, Crimson Films, Fortuneteller Films, and A Bigger Boat.

Branching out into behind-the-scenes documentaries and DVD content, he was edited, produced, directed and shot featurettes in the past three years on the short film and feature-length version of Paul Solet's award-winningGrace(2006 and 2009); the adaptation of Steven Bissette's horror comic COTTONMOUTH, the upcoming horror prequel Malevolence: Bereavement, the true-story drama Aaron Bacon, and Adam (Hatchet 1+2, Spiral) Green's thriller FROZEN.

The DVD extras/documentaries for GRACE have received acclaim from horror fans, students, film aficionados and reviewers the world over, with the DVD winning 'Best Indie Disc' at the 2010 Reaper Awards. The comprehensive extras on FROZEN's recent release have already helped make its Blu-Ray one of the top-selling and highest-acclaimed genre releases of the year, landing a nomination for "Best DVD Extras" alongside such DVDs as The Walking Dead, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and the ALIEN Anthology.

He will begin production on several music videos this winter.

He has worked as an editor and sound designer; As a screenwriter he has several projects in active development, including the feature-length version of MAINSTREAM, and done script consultation/coverage as a freelancer as well as for the IFP.

Online, Adam contributes articles, reviews and interviews for the websites Entertainment Insiders, Icons of Fright, and Massive Hysteria.