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Jyllian Gunther
Director, Writer, Producer, Additional Credits
Jyllian is an Emmy-award winning multimedia storyteller. She is currently in production on an unannounced feature documentary for HBO about Robin Byrd, which she is co-directing and producing with longtime collaborator Stephanie Schwam. Her last award-winning feature doc, The New Public, aired on PBS, distributed by Kino Lorber. Her first critically-acclaimed doc, Pull Out, was an official selection of numerous national and international film festivals and is in development as a series for television.Other credits include: Director, Writer, & Co-Executive Producer of the HBO rom doc series, Swiping America; Director/Writer on multiple episodes of the NBC Emmy award-winning series, Who Do You Think You Are; ABC’s The Last Defense, Prod/Writer for the Amazon/New Yorker Magazine series, The New Yorker Presents. She won a Christopher Award for her work as EP/Director of the History/A&E documentary, Black Patriots: Heroes of the American Revolution.
Filmography
| 2023 | Swiping America (TV Series) |
| 2020 | |
| 2015 | The New Yorker Presents (TV Series) |
| 2013 | |
| 2010 | Who Do You Think You Are? (US) (TV Series) |
| 2004 | Postcards from Buster (TV Series) |
| 2003 | |
| 2003 | Made (TV Series) |