Jyllian Gunther
Director, Writer, Producer
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.
Known For
Filmography
| 2023 | |
| 2013 | |
| 1996 |
| 2026 | |
| 2026 | |
| 2020 | Black Patriots · as Executive ProducerOn Plex |
| 2018 | |
| 2015 | |
| 2013 | |
| 2007 | |
| 2004 | |
| 2003 | |
| 2003 |
| 2003 | Pull Out · as Self |
| 2024 | Good One: A Show About Jokes · as Co-Executive Producer |
| 2023 | Swiping America · as Co-Executive Producer |
| 2015 | The New Yorker Presents · as Narration Written By |
| 2013 | A Crime to Remember · as Story ProducerOn Plex |
| 2013 | The New Public · as Cinematographer |
| 2012 | Four Houses · as Post Producer |
| 2010 | Who Do You Think You Are? (US) · as Supervising Producer |
| 2003 | Pull Out · as Written By |
| 2003 | Made · as Episode "alyssa" 2005 |