Brent Yontz is an American filmmaker, television producer and photographer who has retired his career of over 20-years. He began in documentaries as a National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Presidential Emmy Award Scholar at the Columbia College Chicago School of Cinema and Television, and Telluride Film Festival Symposium Fellow, where he studied classical narrative filmmaking and produced his 35mm live action and animated film thesis, NANUQ, which was awarded the Panavision and Kodak New Filmmaker Awards, played the international film festival circuit, won competitions in all disciplines including best cinematography, and premiered at the Oscar-qualifying Hollyshorts Film Festival. His background in narrative storytelling and animation has informed his approach to documentaries, and he has gone on to produce the CINE Golden Eagle Award-Winning PBS documentary film, SPECTRUM: A STORY OF THE MIND, which premiered at the United Nations, the feature length Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail documentary, SNOW TO SAND, which debuted at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and SEEDS OF HOPE, a documentary film produced in partnership with the U.S. National Park Service. His photography has been featured in National Geographic, and he has served as a United States AmeriCorps member, where he stewarded our public lands and captured historical archive photography for the U.S. Forest Service. He co-founded the award-winning CLAY Partners agency in Burbank, California, which has produced Emmy Award-Winning documentaries and documentary style projects for brands like PBS, BBC America, America’s National Parks, Walt Disney’s National Geographic, Warner Bros. Discovery, Apple, Netflix, Hulu, Getty Images, HBO, Lionsgate, Amazon, A&E, FOX Sports Network, CNN, MTV, Zumba Fitness, ActiVision and JPMorgan Chase & Co. He's worked all over the world including Greece, Bulgaria, Hawaii, Alaska, National Park's sea, air and land, surfed the Pacific, skied the Rockies, climbed the High Sierra Nevada and Kala Patthar in the Everest Himalayas.
