Jack Youngelson

Director
Jack Youngelson is an Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker and writer. Most recently, he was the writer on All In: The Fight For Democracy, an Amazon Original documentary about the history of voter suppression as told against the backdrop of Stacey Abrams’ 2018 gubernatorial campaign. For this project, he received a Writers Guild Awards nomination for best documentary screenplay. Other credits include: Take Every Wave: The Life Of Laird Hamilton (writer/producer), Ethel (producer and Emmy nominee), Ghosts Of Abu Ghraib (writer/producer and Emmy winner – Outstanding Non-Fiction Special), and Mission Blue (writer/producer and Emmy nominee). He has directed numerous projects for PBS, including episodes of Cancer: The Emperor Of All Maladies, which received the Dupont-Columbia University award for excellence in journalism, and The Gene: An Intimate History. Both series were based on books by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee and executive produced by Ken Burns. His first documentary feature, Tierney Gearon: The Mother Project, co-directed with Peter Sutherland, was described by the San Francisco Chronicle as “One of the most remarkable and layered explorations of family relationships, insanity and the motivations of memoirist artists ever to have been made.” Jack lives in Brooklyn, NY with his family. 

Jack Youngelson