Disruption
Short film In Production
Director
Pamela Yates
Doc Society helped with
Development
Went to Good Pitch
A band of Latin American activist economists sets out to change their continent, teaming up with impoverished women to challenge accepted notions on how to eradicate poverty. The women become empowered economic and political engines of their communities. If taken to scale, could 20 million women upend a continent?
Outreach Work Supported
An outreach tour through Colombia, Ecuador and Perú held in partnership with Cine Vagabundo, a Columbian mobile cinema project and the Map Your World tablet-based community mapping app.
Crew
Pamela Yates
Director
Pamela Yates was born and raised in the Appalachian coal-mining region of Pennsylvania but ran away at the age of 16 to live in New York City. Yates is a co-founder of Skylight Pictures, a company dedicated to creating 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. Yates’ films have spanned the globe geographically, covering a wide spectrum of human experience. She directed When the Mountains Tremble (the prequel to Granito) about a revolutionary moment in Guatemala, that won the Special Jury Prize at the first Sundance Film Festival. She also directed a trilogy of films Living Broke in Boom Times, an inside look at homeless activists’ movement to end poverty.
SKYLIGHT PICTURES Stories that illuminate. We engage, educate and increase understanding of human rights using film & digital technology. For over 25 years Skylight has been committed to producing artistic, challenging and socially relevant documentary films on issues of human rights and the quest for justice. Whatever the medium, we believe that stories, and the people behind them, are paramount.
