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Joshua Adler
= Joshua Adler (February 4, 1975) is an American documentary filmmaker and screenwriter from Macon, Georgia. His first documentary, Living The Fantasy was released in 2015. His second documentary, How We Survive a Zombie Apocalypse will be released in 2025. =

Early Life and Education
Adler was born in New York City, the son of Paul and Deborah Adler, and his family moved to Macon, Georgia in 1979. He attended Stratford Academy where he graduated in 1993. After attending Young Judaea Year Course in Israel, Adler attended Kenyon College where he majored in Drama with Josh Radnor and Dan Fishbach, where he created the sketch comedy group Beyond Therapy  In 2006 he received his MFA from Columbia University School of The Arts where he received the William Goldman fellowship in screenwriting and was personally mentored by William Goldman. Before graduating from Columbia, Adler won the prestigious Zaki Gordon Award for screenwriting. Before Graduating Columbia, he directed his thesis film Amateur starring Jason Connery.

Career
After teaching film and tv production at Ramapo College, Adler directed his first feature Documentary "Living The Fantasy" in 2015 starring Michael Rapaport about Fantasy Football and the rise of Draftkings. He created, produced and directed the famous Draftkings commercials

After starting LPA Video Productions (Named after his son), Adler recharged his documentary filmmaking career with How We Survive A Zombie Apocalypse a film that follow intellectually disabled adults from Tarrytown, NY as they try to make their own short film about Surviving The Zombie Apocalypse. As of 2024, the film is in post-production.

After October 7, 2023, Adler got financing for and began production on his next Documentary, Member Of The Tribe which follows Adler as he explores why American Jews are having trouble staying Jews after they are Bar MItzvahed. The film features interviews with Esther Panich, Ruwa Romman, Ruby Namdar, Benny Morris and many more.

Personal Life
Joshua lives with his wife, Lara and son Lucas in New City, NY