Jacob Young (documentarian)  Jacob Young (born 1952) is an American screenwriter, cinematographer, film editor, and filmmaker best known for creating documentary films that explore eccentric people living in his native Appalachia. Young was a producer at WNPB-TV in Morgantown, West Virginia, when he conceived "Appalachian Junkumentary" (1986), a film eventually purchased by over 90 PBS stations and winning a 1988 PBS Special Achievement Award. It became one of 15 U.S. television shows later selected for an international screening conference. Young was also producer for two seasons of the documentary series "Different Drummer", broadcast by the BBC and Public TV. His film "Dancing Outlaw" (1992) received both a 1992 Emmy Award and a 1993 American Film Institute Award for 'Best Documentary. In 1998 Young revealed that he was considering creating a feature film using "Dancing Outlaw" star Jesco White. "Oxford American" referred to Young's film "Dancing Outlaw" as "now-legendary", and wrote that it was "one of the most bizarre, upsetting, and ultimately, when looked at from a certain angle, inspiring documentaries to have emerged from the South, or from anywhere, in recent memory." In writing of a 1999 retrospective of Young's works, which included "Dancing Outlaw", "Dancing Outlaw 2", "and a sizable chunk of Young's documentary oeuvre", the "Austin American-Statesman" wrote "Young's specialty is fixing his camera on the quirky human" and called his work "life-is-nuttier-than-fiction films".