Information AboutIan Adams |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT IAN ADAMS | |
| 1937 births | |
| adams, ian | |
| living people | |
| canadian novelists | |
| canadians of anglo-irish descent | |
| people from toronto | |
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BIOGRAPHY Ian Adams was born to a family of Irish lay Missionaries administering a medical clinic in the former Belgian Congo . He grew up in Central and East Africa . He began his career as a photographer/reporter. As an award-winning Investigative Journalist , he worked for five years at Maclean's , Canada’s national news magazine, covering many national and international stories, including the Vietnam War and the Coup D’etat that overthrew Allende in Chile . During the Seventies and Eighties Adams lived, worked and traveled extensively in South and Central America , mostly covering the so-called “dirty wars”. From this period came the novel '' Becoming Tania '' (published by McClelland And Stewart ) —the love story of Che Guevara and his companera Tania who was killed with Che in the Bolivian jungle. The screenplay adaptation, ''Tango Duro'', by Ian Adams, of this novel was in 2005 nominated for the Writers Guild Of Canada ’s Best Unproduced Screenplay—the Tim Burt Award . So far Ian Adams and his writing partner, Riley Adams , have turned three of his seven published novels into movies: the third, ''S: Portrait of a Spy'', is scheduled for production as a feature film (by Alberta Filmworks) in the Spring of 2006. The Adams team with Riley as the lead writer has also written the original screenplays for two of the seven MOWs in this fall’s CTV lineup. ''Hunt for Justice'', (GalaFilms) starring William Hurt , John Corbett , and Wendy Crewson , The second original screen play, ''The Clark Todd Story'', (ImagiNation Films and Box Films, UK) is scheduled for filming to begin early in 2006. His most recent novel, ''Agent of Influence'', based on the true story of Canadian diplomat John Watkins who died while under RCMP and CIA interrogation, was adapted by the Adams team, and aired on the national CTV network in 2003/2004; produced by Alberta FilmWorks and Gala Films, ''Agent of Influence'' starred Christopher Plummer . The film has been sold by Alliance-Atlantis to TV networks in 132 countries, and in 2003 was recognized by the European Screenplay Writers’ association as the best foreign television screenplay. The Adams partnership created the screenplay for the full length feature, ''Bad Faith'' — adapted from Ian Adams’ novel of the same title and filmed in Calgary and Montreal during March 2000 by Alberta FilmWorks — is now distributed world-wide by Oasis under the title, ''Cold Blooded''. Ian Adams has also written many hours of produced television for different Canadian and U.S. shows. Currently the Adams team are in development with the ''Fiore Code'', a concept they created, using the world of contemporary international espionage, for a television series to be co-produced by Capri Films in Toronto and Colorado Films in Rome with CTV as the Canadian broadcaster. WORKS
AWARDS Adams' work ''Agent of Influence'' has received the following awards:
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