Pamela Yates
Skylight Creative Director
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Pamela Yates is a co-founder of Skylight and currently the Creative Director. Skylight is a non-profit human rights media company dedicated to creating feature length documentary films and digital media tools that advance awareness of human rights and the quest for justice by implementing multi-year outreach campaigns designed to engage, educate and activate social change. Her 2011 film was Granito: How to Nail a Dictator, for which she was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship. The film was used as key forensic evidence in the Ríos Montt genocide conviction in Guatemala. The sequel to "Granito", a new documentary called "500 Years" will be released in January, 2017.