Born in June 20, 1980 in Indiana and raised in Allentown, Pennsylvania with his supportive family, his parents Bruno and Amanda, and his older brothers, Jason and Dominic. At the age of one, Adrean lost his hearing due to a high fever developed by the chicken pox sizzling both of his cochlea. He grew up wearing hearing aids to be able to communicate orally with his family. At 15, he was aware of his gradually decreasing hearing loss and so decided to obtain a cochlear implant so as to improve his hearing. At the age of 24, he decided to get a second cochlear implant which has had a profound effect on his hearing capabilities contributing to a new ability to localize sound as well as to differentiate sounds that were, up till then, unknown to him. He continued on with his education successfully reaching the Film and Animation program at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY. In 2003, he was first recognized for his film, Paper Airplane, which was an experimental/documentary of his life as a deaf individual and the impact he had on his family. In 2005, he won the Deaf Rochester Film Festival Student Honorable Mention Award for Paper Airplane. In that same year, Larry Hott of Hott Productions viewed Paper Airplane at the festival and offered him an opportunity to produce another short film for Hott's PBS affiliated production that is expected to release in 2007. Adrean thus creatively crafted yet another award-winning film, Equilibrium, based on his experience with bilateral cochlear implants. In 2006, he won the School of Film and Animation Department Chair's Award at RIT for his senior thesis film, The CalabrianÕs Feast. For more information on The CalabrianÕs Feast