Pamela Yates
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Pamela Yates is the Founder and Senior Creative Director of Skylight, a not-for-profit media organization that for over 40 years has combined cinematic arts with the quest for justice to inspire the defense of human rights. Skylight’s films and programs strengthen social justice movements and catalyze collaborative networks of artists and activists.
She is the Director of the Sundance Special Jury award winning documentary “When the Mountains Tremble”, and the Executive Producer of the Academy Award winning “Witness to War”. Her film “Granito: How to Nail a Dictator”, for which she awarded a Guggenheim fellowship, was used as key forensic evidence in the genocide trial against Efraín Ríos Montt in Guatemala. She is currently on tour with “BORDERLAND | The Line Within” for which she was awarded a Poynter Fellowship in Journalism from Yale University and the Inaugural Art of Activism Award from the Woodstock Film Festival.
Pamela is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), the International Documentary Association (IDA) and serves on the Advisory Board of the Woodstock Film Festival.
