Jacob Young is a filmmaker living in Morgantown, West Virginia. Young was a producer at WNPB-TV, the public TV station in Morgantown, when he conceived Appalachian Junkumentary (1986), a film eventually purchased by over 90 PBS stations that went on to win 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. His film Dancing Outlaw (1992) received a 1993 American Film Institute Award for Best Documentary. Oxford American called it "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."