Patricia "Trish" Adlesic is an American documentary film director and producer. She has been nominated for two Academy Awards.
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 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.
Filmography As director and producer Year Title Director Producer Notes 2010 Gasland 2013 Gasland Part II 2017 I Am Evidence 2022 A Tree of Life: The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting Pay or Die 2023 The ABCs of Book Banning Short film 2025 My Mom Jayne Nuns vs. The Vatican
Other credits Film Year Title Notes 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
Television Year Title Notes 1990–1993 Law & Order Location coordinator 1994–1995 The Cosby Mysteries Location manager 1999–2014 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Location manager
Awards and nominations Award Year Category Nominated work Result 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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