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name: "Tom Yellin"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/tom-yellin"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "2 January 1953"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T05:18:58.787953+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Tom Yellin

Producer. Born 2 January 1953.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 2 January 1953
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22075537, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0947400/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1586221

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Cartel Land*](https://film.one/film/cartel-land.md) (75)

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## Biography

Tom Yellin is an American television and film producer. He began his career at ABC News, producing news programmes and series that earned awards including Peabody, Emmy, Gabriel, George Polk and Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University prizes.

In 2002 he co-founded PJ Productions and later co-founded the independent production company The Documentary Group. Among his credits are the documentaries *Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience* (2007), *Girl Rising* (2013) and *Cartel Land* (2015). The latter received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature and a BAFTA nomination for Best Documentary.

He was also executive producer and writer on the series *Amend: The Fight for America* (2021).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Cartel Land* (2015), Fi1m 75, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/cartel-land.md)

## Also known for

- *Amend: The Fight for America* (2021), Writer, Executive Producer
- *Girl Rising* (2013), Executive Producer

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