Nobu Adilman
Nobu Adilman is a Toronto-based artist with many notable television, film and music credits. He is also a journalist, podcaster, and interactive web content creator.
Nobu is best known for co-founding Choir! Choir! Choir!, a community singing group that has performed at Carnegie Hall and Radio City Music Hall. Their video of 1500 singers singing Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah with Rufus Wainwright at the Luminato Festival has been viewed more than 20 million times. They have performed with punk legend Patti Smith, on the Juno Awards, and been covered by national and international media.
He is co-creator and one of the stars of Food Jammers, a cooking/gadget creation show that encourages people to fantasize instead of following a recipe. As an actor, Nobu gained considerable notoriety with a recurring role in Season Five of the hit Canadian TV comedy series Trailer Park Boys as one of the drug-dealing Flappy Bird Brothers Terry and Denis.
Nobu started out as a writer on Canadian episodic television (Emily of New Moon, Cold Squad), while also directing numerous no-budget short films that have screened at festivals and on TV around the world. He is currently producing and directing SHORT ROUND UP, a short documentary funded by BravoFactual to find all the Asian men who, as boys, auditioned to be Short Round in Indiana Jones Temple Of Doom.
In the late 90s, he co-founded and played in the Halifax rock band Rick Of The Skins (ROTS), and in the early 2000s, released a solo album as Mister Nobu titled C’mon Wid Your C’mon. He is currently recording the long overdue follow-up.
His adventures in media has also led him to make a story-based podcast called Captain Eyeliner, an interactive web documentary for the National Film Board of Canada and Secret Location about how he is dealing with the recession, and Starting Over: The Legacy of Leslie and Clara Reitman, a fifteen-minute documentary that he produced and directed that opened the TIFF Bell Lightbox in 2010. In 2014, he was the Toronto editor of Eater, a celebrated food blog, and the Special Events Programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival 2014 + 2015 editions, an inaugural pedestrian promenade filled with art exhibits, a live music stage, and street performances.
Nobu is best known for co-founding Choir! Choir! Choir!, a community singing group that has performed at Carnegie Hall and Radio City Music Hall. Their video of 1500 singers singing Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah with Rufus Wainwright at the Luminato Festival has been viewed more than 20 million times. They have performed with punk legend Patti Smith, on the Juno Awards, and been covered by national and international media.
He is co-creator and one of the stars of Food Jammers, a cooking/gadget creation show that encourages people to fantasize instead of following a recipe. As an actor, Nobu gained considerable notoriety with a recurring role in Season Five of the hit Canadian TV comedy series Trailer Park Boys as one of the drug-dealing Flappy Bird Brothers Terry and Denis.
Nobu started out as a writer on Canadian episodic television (Emily of New Moon, Cold Squad), while also directing numerous no-budget short films that have screened at festivals and on TV around the world. He is currently producing and directing SHORT ROUND UP, a short documentary funded by BravoFactual to find all the Asian men who, as boys, auditioned to be Short Round in Indiana Jones Temple Of Doom.
In the late 90s, he co-founded and played in the Halifax rock band Rick Of The Skins (ROTS), and in the early 2000s, released a solo album as Mister Nobu titled C’mon Wid Your C’mon. He is currently recording the long overdue follow-up.
His adventures in media has also led him to make a story-based podcast called Captain Eyeliner, an interactive web documentary for the National Film Board of Canada and Secret Location about how he is dealing with the recession, and Starting Over: The Legacy of Leslie and Clara Reitman, a fifteen-minute documentary that he produced and directed that opened the TIFF Bell Lightbox in 2010. In 2014, he was the Toronto editor of Eater, a celebrated food blog, and the Special Events Programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival 2014 + 2015 editions, an inaugural pedestrian promenade filled with art exhibits, a live music stage, and street performances.
