Jacob Young (documentarian)

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.

• Saturday Night in Babylon (1983) — A look at reggae music and culture through the eyes of Jamaican migrant workers, originally broadcast in 1983 on the television series Vandalia Sampler.{{Cite video | people = Jacob Young; Sandy Fallon | title = Saturday Night in Babylon | medium = VHS | publisher = WWVU-TV | location = Morgantown, W. Va. | oclc = 53343924 | date = 1983 }}
• Appalachian Junkumentary (1987) — In which Appalachian junkyard owners explain their business, their hopes and their dreams. Originally broadcast on the PBS television series Different Drummer.{{Cite video | people = Jacob Young | title = Appalachian Junkumentary | medium = VHS | publisher = Countrified Films and WNPB-TV | location = Morgantown, W. Va. | oclc = 148143903 | date = 1987 }}
• Hammer on the Slammer (1987) — The tale of Donald Bordenkircher, who reestablished several West Virginia state prisons that were operating on the verge of disaster. Originally broadcast on the PBS television series Different Drummer.{{Cite video | people = Jacob Young | title = Hammer on the Slammer | medium = VHS | publisher = WNPB-TV | location = Morgantown, W. Va. | oclc = 53010469 | date = 1987 }}
• Amazing Delores (1988) — The biograph of Delores Boyd, a grandmother who writes outrageous songs and fronts a rock and roll band. Originally broadcast on the PBS television series Different Drummer.{{Cite video | people = Jacob Young | title = Amazing Delores | medium = VHS | publisher = WNPB-TV | location = Morgantown, W. Va. | oclc = 53009834 | date = 1988 }}
• Point Man For God (1989) — About Bernard Coffindaffer, a rich industrialist who mounts a crusade to cover the American landscape with crosses. Originally broadcast on the PBS television series Different Drummer.{{Cite video | people = Jacob Young | title = Point Man For God | medium = VHS | publisher = WNPB-TV | location = Morgantown, W. Va. | oclc = 32861968 | date = 1989 }}
• Glitch in the System (1989) — Elmer Fike, former owner and plant manager of a small chemical company in Nitro, West Virginia, and an opponent of government regulations, which leads him into battle with the Environmental Protection Agency. Originally broadcast on the PBS television series Different Drummer.{{Cite video | people = Jacob Young | title = Glitch in the System | medium = VHS | publisher = WNPB-TV | location = Morgantown, W. Va. | oclc = 148143890 | date = 1989 }}
• Doctor No? (1990) — A portrait of Dr. William Pierce, the author of The Turner Diaries and one of the country's preeminent white supremacists. Originally broadcast on the PBS television series Different Drummer.{{Cite video | people = Jacob Young | title = Doctor No? | medium = VHS | publisher = WNPB-TV | location = Morgantown, W. Va. | oclc = 53006604 | date = 1990 }}
• Mister D...Period (1991) — About James E. "Sug" Davis, an artist in Charleston, West Virginia, an artist who creates things out of found materials. Originally broadcast on the PBS television series Different Drummer.{{Cite video | people = Jacob Young | title = Mister D...Period | medium = VHS | publisher = WNPB-TV | location = Morgantown, W. Va. | oclc = 32861915 | date = 1989 }}
• Dancing Outlaw (1992) — Portrait of Jesco White, a man struggling to live up to his father's legacy as the finest dancer in the Appalachian Mountains. Originally broadcast on the PBS television series Different Drummer.{{Cite video | people = Jacob Young | title = Dancing Outlaw | medium = VHS | publisher = WNPB-TV | location = Morgantown, W. Va. | oclc = 47079100 | date = 1991 }}
• Fleabag : the Frank Veltri story (1992) — Although operating at a substantial loss, a man refuses to close an old hotel that houses the helpless and destitute. Originally broadcast on the PBS television series Different Drummer.{{Cite video | people = Jacob Young | title = Fleabag : the Frank Veltrie story | medium = VHS | publisher = WNPB-TV | location = Morgantown, W. Va. | oclc = 53008997 | date = 1991 }}
• Dancing Outlaw II: Jesco Goes to Hollywood (1994) — Jesco, the Dancing Outlaw, becomes so famous that he is summoned to Hollywood to appear on Roseanne.{{Cite video | people = Jacob Young | title = Dancing Outlaw II: Jesco Goes to Hollywood | medium = VHS | publisher = WNPB-TV | location = Morgantown, W. Va. | oclc = 35020974 | date = 1994 }}
• Holy Cow, Swami! (1996) — Examines the life of the powerful Hare Krishna Kirtanananda Swami and uncovers murder, kidnapping, and extensive fraud.{{Cite video | people = Jacob Young | title = Holy Cow, Swami! | medium = VHS | publisher = WNPB-TV | location = Morgantown, W. Va. | oclc = 244008231 | date = 1996 }}
• American Breakdown (1997) — Made for commercial broadcast, this was a pilot for a reality-based series featuring interviews of interesting people stranded by the highway in urban and rural Tennessee, originally premiered 10/26/98 on the television show Split screen.{{cite video |people= Jacob Young; Dub Cornett |date= 26 October 1998 |title= American Breakdown |medium= VHS |oclc= 53344093

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• The Object - the Urim and Thummim (2007)O'Driscoll, Bill (7 June 2007). [http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A31585 "A man's obsession with a 'sacred' object is the latest focus for 'Dancing Outlaw' filmmaker Jacob Young."] Pittsburgh City Paper (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania). Retrieved 29 April 2010.

Oxford American referred to Young's film Dancing Outlaw as "now-legendary", and wrote that it was "one of the most bizarre, upsetting, and ultimately, when looked at from a certain angle, inspiring documentaries to have emerged from the South, or from anywhere, in recent memory."

In writing of a 1999 retrospective of Young's works, which included Dancing Outlaw, Dancing Outlaw 2, "and a sizable chunk of Young's documentary oeuvre", the Austin American-Statesman wrote "Young's specialty is fixing his camera on the quirky human" and called his work "life-is-nuttier-than-fiction films".

• 1988, PBS Special Achievement Award for Appalachian Junkumentary
• 1992, Emmy Award for 'Best Documentary' for Dancing Outlaw
• 1993, American Film Institute Award for 'Best Documentary' for Dancing Outlaw

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{{cite news | url= http://www.filmvault.com/filmvault/austin/d/dancingoutlawiije1.html | title= Dancing Outlaw II: Jesco Goes to Hollywood | last= Lewis | first= Anne | date= 10 May 1999 | newspaper= Austin Chronicle | location= Austin, Texas | access-date= 10 April 2010 | archive-date= 18 October 2016 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20161018022851/http://www.filmvault.com/filmvault/austin/d/dancingoutlawiije1.html | url-status= dead }}

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{{cite news | url= http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/vol18/issue36/screens.doctour.html | title= The King of the Hillbillies | last= Lewis | first= Anne | date= 10 May 1999 | newspaper= Austin Chronicle | location= Austin, Texas | access-date= 10 April 2010}}

{{cite news | url= https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=TVogAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CtgEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6393,2731859&dq=jacob-young+documentary&hl=en | title= 'Dancing Outlaw' may get second movie | date= 26 April 1998 | page= C6 | newspaper= The Gadsden Times | location= Gadsden, Alabama | access-date= 11 April 2010}}

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• {{IMDb name|0949645|Jacob Young}}
• [http://www.dancingoutlaw.com/ Official page] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080905222940/http://dancingoutlaw.com/ |date=2008-09-05 }}

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Category:1952 births

Category:American documentary filmmakers

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