Tom Yellin (born 1953) is an American television and film producer. He has mostly worked on various
television films and
documentaries.
Biography
Born in 1953,
Yellin started his career as a producer at
ABC News. He produced various news shows and television series, which have won various awards, including the
Peabody,
Emmy
The Emmy Awards, or Emmys, are an extensive range of awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international television industry. A number of annual Emmy Award ceremonies are held throughout the calendar year, each with the ...
,
Gabriel,
George Polk and
Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University awards. In 2002, he co-founded PJ Productions, an American television production company; several years later, he co-founded The Documentary Group, an independent production company.
Yellin produced documentaries such as ''
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience'' (2007) ''
Girl Rising'' (2013), and ''
America in Primetime
''America in Primetime'' is a 2011 four-part documentary series, focusing on television in the United States. Originally produced for and broadcast by the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), the series is a production by The Documentary Group, in ...
'' (2011).
In 2015, he produced documentary ''
Cartel Land'' which received positive reception, and was nominated for numerous awards, including an
Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and
BAFTA Award for Best Documentary.
References
External links
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Living people
American film producers
20th-century American Jews
American television producers
1953 births
21st-century American Jews
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