Biography

Elliott Halpern is an Emmy award-winning producer/director of feature length documentaries for television. He is the owner and creative director of yap films and has produced, written and directed many outstanding feature length films for television. Most recently, he was the Executive Producer on The Machine That Feels (2021), for ARTE and CBC's The Nature of Things. He was also an Executive Producer on the Emmy nominated film for PBS American Masters, How It Feels to Be Free (2021); A Day in the Life of Earth for CBC, BBC, and ZDFE; the CSA nominated series, Unabomber: In His Own Words for Netflix, REELZ and Discovery; the CSA nominated web series, My Trans Journey for OUTtv; the CSA winning film for best history documentary or series, Ice Bridge for CBC, Smithsonian Channel, France 5, UKTV and SBS; the 2018 Banff Rockie Award winner Mosquito for Discovery Channel US (2017); the CSA and Banff nominated Black Watch Snipers for HISTORY Canada (2016); the CSA nominated Loretta Lynn: Still a Mountain Girl for PBS/American Masters, BBC Four/Arena and Sony Music (2016); and the CSA nominated Building Star Trek - the highest rated documentary in the history of Smithsonian Channel (2016). Among his numerous awards are two Emmy Awards for Investigative Journalism, the Silver Nymph Award at Monte Carlo, and the Columbia-Dupont Award.
- IMDb mini biography by: Yap Films