Robert M. Young
Robert M. Young, one of our foremost independent filmmakers, has an award-winning body of work that includes classic documentaries and acclaimed feature films, such as Nothing But A Man, Alambrista!, Short Eyes, Rich Kids, One Trick Pony, The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez, Extremities, Dominick and Eugene, Triumph of the Spirit, and Caught.

Mr. Young’s numerous awards include: Cannes’ Camera d’Or, San Sebastian’s Golden Concha  for Best Film, Cuba’s Golden Coral for Best Film, Venice’s Primo San Georgio and The City of Venice Prize, an Emmy, a Peabody Award, two George Polk Memorial Awards for Journalism and an Academy Award Nomination for Children of Fate: Life and Death in a Sicilian Family  which also won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance.  Mr. Young has also been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.

One of his earliest documentaries, Secrets of the Reef was named by Time Magazine “one of the ten best films of the year.”  And his film for CBS:  Eskimo: Fight for Life,  won an Emmy as Best Documentary of the year.  As a writer/director/cameraman and associate producer for the acclaimed NBC White Paper series, he made Sit-In and Angola: Journey to a War.  For the latter, he walked 400 miles behind Portuguese lines with Angolan rebels to film the first encounters of their war.  Both films received the George Polk Memorial Award as well as being cited in a Peabody Award to NBC.  The Angola film also received the Overseas Press Club Citation for Best Foreign Reporting of the year.  Young’s next film, The Inferno portrayed slum life in Palermo, Sicily so powerfully that NBC declined to air it.  In 1993, Young’s son Andrew and his daughter-in-law Susan Todd, incorporated the NBC film into their film Children of Fate: Life and Death in a Sicilian Family, for which they received an Academy Award Nomination.  Father and son together received the Best Cinematography Award at the Sundance Film Festival.

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