
Pamela Yates is the Co-founder and Creative Director of Skylight, a non-profit human rights media organization based in Brooklyn, NY. Skylight combines the cinematic arts with the quest for justice to inspire the defense of democracy. .
Pamela is the Director of the Sundance Special Jury award winning When the Mountains Tremble; the Executive Producer of the Academy Award winning Witness to War; and the Director of State of Fear: The Truth About Terrorism, which has been translated into 47 languages and broadcast in 154 countries as well as winning the Overseas Press Club Award for “Best Reporting in any Medium about Latin America”. 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. Her third film in the Guatemalan trilogy, 500 YEARS had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, was released theatrically and was broadcast on PBS’ POV series.
Pamela is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and
Sciences, Writers Guild of America, and the International Documentary
Association. She has designed and currently leads the Hedgebrook Women’s Documentary
Film Lab and Retreat
Sessions in which Pamela Yates participates
- Registration Cinerama Dome - Lobby
- 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM | 9 hours
- Welcome to Getting Real '18 Cinerama Dome - Theater
- 9:00 AM - 9:15 AM | 15 minutes
- Pulling Back the Curtain
- Signup required Registered On Wait List Session is full Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Interactive Workshop
- Making a New Reality with Kamal Sinclair
- Signup required Registered On Wait List Session is full Film L.A. - Meeting Room
- 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour
- Presentation
- Documenting the Present, Preserving the Future
- Signup required Registered On Wait List Session is full Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
- 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Panel
- A Conversation with Morgan Neville and Judd Apatow Cinerama Dome - Theater
- 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour
- Conversation
- Whine Before The Wine Cinerama Dome - Theater
- 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | 1 hour
- Keynote: Michèle Stephenson Cinerama Dome - Theater
- 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM | 30 minutes
- Keynote
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- Localizing Your Content for Any Market ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 8
- 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Panel
- Collective Intelligence: Co-Creative and Emergent Documentaries
- Signup required Registered On Wait List Session is full Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Performance
- Journalists Under Threat ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 8
- 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Panel
- Not Your Grandmother's Historical Doc
- Signup required Registered On Wait List Session is full Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
- 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Panel
- Is Short The New Feature? How Short Digital Content Can Further Your Story, Impact and Career ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 8
- 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Panel
- Keynote: Chi-hui Yang Cinerama Dome - Theater
- 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM | 30 minutes
- Keynote
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- Gimme Truth!
- Signup required Registered On Wait List Session is full The Montalbán - Theatre
- 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Game Show
- Keynote: Orwa Nyrabia
- Signup required Registered On Wait List Session is full Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
- 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM | 30 minutes
- Keynote
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- Mock Deposition: The case of IDA vs. Marco Williams
- Signup required Registered On Wait List Session is full Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
- 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Performance
- Impact Producers Convening
- Signup required Registered On Wait List Session is full LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) - Gallery
- 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour
- Convening
- Broadcast Production Pipelines ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 10
- 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Panel
- Global Advocacy Convening
- Signup required Registered On Wait List Session is full LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) - Gallery
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | 1 hour
- Convening
- Making the Most of Mentorship ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 8
- 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Panel
- Role of Documentary in the Public Sphere
- Signup required Registered On Wait List Session is full Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
- 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Panel