Tom Yellin

As executive producer Tom Yellin has overseen numerous critically-acclaimed DocGroup projects, including the recent America in Primetime, a premier series on PBS showcasing the creative minds behind the new golden age of television; the Peabody award-winning ABC News Special, To Iraq and Back: Bob Woodruff Reports; and the Academy Award nominated documentary Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience. Currently in production is DocGroup’s largest and most ambitious project,10X10: Educate Girls, Change the World, a feature-length film and social action campaign that embraces the enormous potential of educating girls in developing countries. Other recent films include Into Harm’s Way, about West Point’s class of ’67 and the shadow cast on their lives by the Vietnam War, Angle of Attack: How Naval Aviation Changed the Face of War, and Dreamland, about the land of dreams also known as California. DocGroup is the successor to PJ Productions, a company Tom formed with Peter Jennings in 2002 to produce the award-winning series Peter Jennings Reporting for ABC News. Documentaries in the series included From the Tobacco Files: Untold Stories of Betrayal and Neglect, UFOs: Seeing is Believing, Dark Horizon: India, Pakistan and the Bomb, The Search for Jesus, How to Get Fat Without Really Trying and The Kennedy Assassination: Beyond Conspiracy. Before the formation of PJ Productions, Tom was an executive producer at ABC News. His projects included ABC 2000, 23 hours live coverage from around the world at the turn of the century; The Century, a twelve-part series that aired in 1999; and Day One, a primetime news magazine, which Tom created. His programs have won numerous honors, including DuPont, George Foster Peabody, the Emmy, Gabriel and Polk awards. Tom graduated from Harvard College. He is married, has four daughters and lives in New York City.