Jyllian Gunther

Jyllian Gunther is an American director, writer, and film and television producer.

Productions

Gunther is a multimedia storyteller working across film, television, radio, and digital platforms. In 2023, she served as director and co-executive producer for the HBO documentary series Swiping America and an untitled pilot for Conde Nast and Amazon. Previously, she was co-executive producer, director, and writer on multiple episodes of the NBC series, Who Do You Think You Are, featuring Allison Janney, Nick Offerman, and Billy Porter. She won a Christopher Award for her work as executive producer and director of the History/A&E documentary, Black Patriots: Heroes of the American Revolution, featuring Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.^{[citation needed]} She was producer for ABC’s The Last Defence, a seven-part docuseries executive-produced by Viola Davis. She was director, producer, and writer for six short films for the JigSaw, Amazon, and The New Yorker magazine series, The New Yorker Presents. Her first documentary, Pull Out, produced by Wren Arthur, was an official selection of numerous national and international film festivals.^{[citation needed]}Her second feature documentary, The New Public,^[1] aired on PBS and is distributed by Kino Lorber with a curriculum created by Teachers College at Columbia University.^{[citation needed]}

News Reporting

Gunther served as reporter and co-producer for NPR's This American Life program. (Episodes: "Kid Politics” & “Stuck In the Middle.”) She is the recipient of a national Emmy award for writing and directing a series of public service announcements for PBS.^{[citation needed]} She began her television career as a staff writer for Nickelodeon. She was a freelance writer/producer of numerous promos and producer/director on various docuseries for Discovery Channel, TLC, MTV, AMC, IFC, and We TV, and other networks.

Partial filmography

Sunset and the Mockingbird feature film (director/producer/writer)
The New Public feature film (director/producer/camera)
Pull Out feature film (director/producer/writer)
The New Yorker Presents Series. (director/writer/producer)
This American Life (reporter) (2011)^[2]
Who Do You Think You Are Series. (director/supervising producer)
Postcards From Buster Series. (director) PBS
Made (director/producer) Series. (MTV)
Love High (director/producer) Series pilot. (NOGGIN)
THINKPORT.ORG(co-director/writer) Emmy Award-winning PSA series for PBS.

References

External links

Jyllian Gunther at IMDb
The New Public Movie Archived.

[1] "The New Public: Film Review".

[2] This American Life

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