Pamela Yates
Producer
Pamela Yates is an American documentary filmmaker. She was born and raised in the Appalachian coal-mining region of Pennsylvania, but ran away from home at age 16 to live in New York City. Yates is a co-founder of Skylight Pictures, a production company dedicated to making media about human rights and the quest for justice.
Four of Yates's films — When the Mountains Tremble; Poverty Outlaw; Takeover, and The Reckoning— were nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, and When the Mountains Tremble won the Special Jury Award in 1984. Her film, State of Fear: The Truth about Terrorism, has been translated into 47 languages and broadcast in 154 countries. Her most recent film, The Reckoning, is about the first six tumultuous years of the International Criminal CourtGranito is the third in her transitional justice quartet of films.