Brent Yontz is an American filmmaker, TV producer and photographer who has retired his career of over 20-years, and continues his LIFE IN FILM series for hobby. 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 Student 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 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 and National Forests, 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 Nepal's Everest Himalayas.