Adele Horne makes documentary, essayistic, and experimental films and videos. Her film The Tailenders was broadcast nationally on the PBS program P.O.V. in July 2006 and won Film Independent’s “Axium Truer than Fiction Award” in the 2007 Spirit Awards.

Horne's film and videos have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art's Documentary Fortnight, the Flaherty Film Seminar, Anthology Film Archive, Pacific Film Archive, San Francisco Cinematheque, Los Angeles Film Forum, the Morelia International Film Festival, PDX Film Festival, Nashville Film Festival, Chicago Underground Film Festival, the Mix Festival, Women in the Director's Chair, and Mad Cat Women's Film and Video Festival, among other venues.

Adele was born in Nova Scotia and grew up in Houston. She received an M.F.A. in film and video from the University of California, San Diego, and a B.A. from Williams College.