Pamela Yates

Co-Founder and Creative Director of Skylight
Pamela Yates

Pamela Yates is the Co-Founder and Creative Director of Skylight, a 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, Granito: How to Nail a Dictator, (or which she was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship) was used as key forensic evidence in the Ríos Montt genocide conviction in Guatemala. Yates also directed the Sundance Special Jury Award-winning , When the Mountains Tremble and State of Fear: The Truth About Terrorism, which has been translated into 47 languages and broadcast in 154 countries. Her epic film The Reckoning, about the tumultuous first 6 years of the International Criminal Court, was filmed on 4 continents and in 7 languages and also premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Yates’ 2014 film Disruption explores innovative strategies to reduce poverty through women’s economic empowerment in Latin America. Currently, Yates is working on 500 Years, the third in the Guatemalan trilogy that explores the battle for the national narrative in present-day Guatemala.