A screening of a short compilation documentary of Young’s work followed by an intimate conversation between audience and Jacob about his career in film. Jacob Young is an American screenwriter, cinematographer, film editor and filmmaker best known for creating documentary films such as Dancing Outlaw which explore the eccentric people living in his native Appalachia.
Tuesday, October 20 at West Virginia State University Economic Development Center, 1506 Kanawha Blvd West in Charleston. The event is free. Register here.
WVSU professor, filmmaker and WVSU EDC Artist in Residence, Daniel Boyd says, “Jacob Young is hands down the most influential West Virginia filmmaker of our generation. It would be criminal for us to not honor him through our Creators Program.”
Jacob Young is an American screenwriter, cinematographer, film editor and filmmaker best known for creating documentary films which explore the eccentric people living in his native Appalachia.
Young was a producer at WNPB-TV in Morgantown, West Virginia, when he conceived Appalachian Junkumentary (1986), a film eventually purchased by over 90 PBS stations and winning a 1988 PBS Special Achievement Award. It became one of 15 U.S. television shows later selected for an international screening conference. Young was also producer for two seasons of the documentary series Different Drummer, broadcast by the BBC and Public TV. His film Dancing Outlaw (1992) received both a 1992 Emmy Award and a 1993 American Film Institute Award for ’Best Documentary.] In 1998 Young revealed that he was considering creating a feature film using Dancing Outlaw star Jesco White.
