Known for Visual Effects
Adam C. Sager was born in Alameda, California, USA as Adam Christian Sager. He is a director and visual effects supervisor whose affinity for childlike wonder inspires him to manifest the essence of imagination and dreams onto the silver screen. He is best known for Henry Selick's Coraline (2009), Cosmos: Possible Worlds (2020), and the sci-fi thriller Significant Other (2022).
Born
July 10, 1982 (age 44)
Birthplace
Alameda, California, USA
Filmography
34 films, 16 shows


Trouble
2023 · 12m
country: United States
Set in 1952, this musical thriller is what happens when a traveling salesman shows up on the doorstep of a dying old man and can't contain the song within his heart. A dark riff on a classic musical.


The Night I Left America
2021 · 14m
country: Uganda
While awaiting the results of his mother’s visa renewal request, a teenage boy living in Texas is confronted by memories he left behind in Uganda.


Working Lunch
2018 · 8m
country: Unknown
On a regular work day, two liberal friends Nina and Jess, an Indian-American and a member of the LGBTQ community, excitedly head to lunch at a new Indian restaurant, until they are stopped in their tracks by hate graffiti scrawled tragically across the restaurant's facade. Determined, Nina pulls her friend into the empty restaurant anyway, surprising the devastated owner, Shantu. As they sit, another stunned patron enters- Mark. When it quickly becomes apparent that Mark is a dedicated Trump voter, a slanderous argument between Jess and Mark ensues. Ultimately, Jess, Mark, and Nina find that they must get over their misconceptions of each other and come together for the common good: they transform the message of hate into a positive Hindu blessing, not only for their friend, but for their community.


Yamasong: March of the Hollows
2017 · 1h 35m
country: United States
An automated girl and tortoise warrior journey with a band of outlaws on an incredible quest. Their one hope is to find a legendary relic to defeat a sinister mechanized army and save the creatures of their world.


XX
2017 · 1h 21m
country: United States
This all-female horror anthology features four dark tales from four fiercely talented women.


Minutes Past Midnight
2016 · 1h 38m
country: Canada
As midnight falls, all manner of terror invades the Earth. Demons, cannibals, killers, ghosts and monsters swarm the world in these tales of the supernatural, the fantastic, and the just plain horrific. Featuring nine stories of horror.


The Black Sea
2015 · 1h 12m
country: United States
Five friends go to a beach house on the Oregon coast for the weekend. Allison is clearly troubled by something but the others don't say a word or intervene. And then she vanishes.


Winter's Tale
2014 · 1h 58m
country: United States
A burglar falls for an heiress as she dies in his arms. When he learns that he has the gift of reincarnation, he sets out to save her.


The Guest
2013 · 5m
country: Canada
A man must face his personal demons as a consequence of a mysterious bargain he has made.


Jack the Giant Slayer
2013 · 1h 54m
country: United States
The story of an ancient war that is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants. Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing the young man, Jack into the battle of his life to stop them. Fighting for a kingdom, its people, and the love of a brave princess, he comes face to face with the unstoppable warriors he thought only existed in legend–and gets the chance to become a legend himself.


House of Last Things
2013 · 1h 50m
country: United States
A mind-bending thriller set in Portland, Oregon about an unspoken tragedy and its effects on a house, its temporary caretakers and the owners, a classical music critic and his wife on a recuperative trip to Italy.


The Halloween Kid
2012 · 7m
country: Unknown
Henry is a lonely child who lives for his favourite holiday.


The Captured Bird
2012 · 10m
country: Canada
A darkly poetic fable that begins with a little girl drawing figures of people with chalk on the cement of a playground. She takes notice of an unusual crack in the pavement that is seeping a mysterious black fluid, which she follows to an ominous building. Inside, she encounters several bizarre phenomena, including walls that bleed black and tentacles that emerge from the ceiling to touch her. She then witnesses the birth of five terrifying supernatural beings that threaten the existence of her world.


The Company of Thieves
2011 · 17m
country: United States
A lone thief, Dex, seeks vengeance after he is left for dead in the woods by his partner; so he makes a deal with the Devil and goes on a mission to kill his partner and get his loot back.


Magic Valley
2011 · 1h 25m
country: United States
As one warm October day unfolds, the sleepy town of Buhl, Idaho will never be the same. A fish farmer finds his crop destroyed, a couple of kids are playing an unusual game in the sun-dappled fields, and after a wild party a sleepless teenager is harboring an awful secret….


Coraline
2009 · 1h 40m
country: United States
Wandering her rambling old house in her boring new town, 11-year-old Coraline discovers a hidden door to a strangely idealized version of her life. In order to stay in the fantasy, she must make a frighteningly real sacrifice.