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Lafayette: The Lost Hero
Airs on PBS September 13th
The Constitution Project honored
Yick Wo and the Equal Protection Clause wins CINE Masters Series Award. Yick Wo also won a Platinum Hermes Creative Award, a Silver Hugo Award, and two Telly Awards; Korematsu and Civil Liberties receives Gold Hermes Creative Award (AMCP)
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Co-Founder, President & Executive Producer
Tom Yellin is the president and executive producer of The Documentary Group, a company that produces theatrical documentaries, primetime programs for ABC News, and documentaries for other broadcasters and distributors. The company’s purpose is to create non-fiction of the highest quality to reach the broadest possible audience.
The Documentary Group’s most recent projects include To Iraq and Back: Bob Woodruff Reports, an ABC News special aired on February 27 that tells the story of Woodruff’s life-threatening injury and painstaking recovery and reports on inadequacies in the treatment of veterans with similar brain injuries; and Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience, a documentary that explores the firsthand accounts of American soldiers through their own words. Operation Homecoming was shown in theaters nationwide and will air on PBS on April 14 as part of the series America at a Crossroads. The Documentary Group also includes the subsidiary company High Ground Productions, which produced STEEP, a theatrical documentary about the world of big mountain skiing premiering at Tribeca Film Festival on April 28.
The Documentary Group is the successor to PJ Productions, a company Yellin formed with Peter Jennings in 2002 to produce the award winning series Peter Jennings Reporting. The series included such shows as UFOs: Seeing is Believing, a careful examination of the UFO phenomenon that takes seriously the evidence that things have happened that defy conventional explanation; Jesus and Paul: The Word and the Witness, an in-depth look at the origins of Christianity and the two men whose remarkable faith and radical vision changed the course of human history; How To Get Fat Without Really Trying, an examination of how federal government policies and food industry practices are contributing to America’s growing obesity epidemic; and The Kennedy Assassination: Beyond Conspiracy, a two-hour investigative documentary about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Before the formation of PJ Productions, Mr. Yellin was an executive producer at ABC News. He created the Peter Jennings Reporting series with Mr. Jennings in 1989. He was also the executive producer of ABC 2000, which featured 23 hours of millennium coverage. In 1999, he was the executive producer of a twelve-hour series The Century. He was also the executive producer of Report From Ground Zero a two-hour ABC primetime program broadcast on the first anniversary of 9/11.
Mr. Yellin was the executive producer of Day One, a primetime ABC News magazine, from 1991 thru 1995. Peter Jennings Reporting, Day One and Mr. Yellin’s other programs have won numerous broadcast and journalism awards, including the Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award, the George Foster Peabody Award, the News Emmy Award, the Gabriel Award and the Polk Award.
He began his career in network news in 1976, as an associate producer at CBS News for CBS Reports. He went to ABC News as a New York-based producer for Nightline from its premiere in 1980 until 1982, followed by two years as the Nightline senior producer in London. He returned to New York in 1984 as a senior producer for ABC News’ World News Tonight with Peter Jennings. In 1985 he went back to CBS News as senior producer of the weekly series, West 57th where he stayed until the program ended in 1989.
Mr. Yellin graduated from Harvard College. He is married with four daughters and lives in New York City.
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