Oscar winner and two-time Emmy winner James Moll is a film director/producer who established Allentown Productions, which has been based at Universal Studios since 1994. After years of non-fiction filmmaking, Moll’s most recent focus is the development of scripted feature film and television.

Moll most recently directed Foo Fighters a feature documentary about the rock band of the same name. Produced by Nigel Sinclair, the film chronicles the sixteen-year history of the band as well as the making of their latest album.

Moll directed and produced the feature documentary Running the Sahara, with executive producer Matt Damon. Filmed in eight countries, the film follows three elite athletes as they attempt be the first to run across the entire Sahara Desert.

Previously Moll was the director/editor and producer of Inheritance, for which he received an Emmy Award and was nominated for a second.  The film is about the psychological legacy that a prominent Nazi commander left upon his daughter.

The NBC feature documentary Price for Peace was directed and produced by Moll, executive produced by author Stephen Ambrose and Steven Spielberg. The film focused on WWII in the Pacific, and was hosted by Tom Brokaw.

Moll received an Academy Award in 1999 for directing and editing the feature documentary The Last Days, executive produced by Steven Spielberg, chronicling the lives of five Hungarian Holocaust survivors.

Moll produced Broken Silence, a collection of five foreign-language documentaries that premiered on primetime television in Russia, Poland, Argentina, the Czech Republic and Hungary.

For the 2008 Democratic Convention, Moll produced the Spielberg-directed salute to veterans A Timeless Call.  For the previous presidential election, Moll produced and directed A Remarkable Promise, the John Kerry bio-film.

Survivors of the Holocaust, a documentary produced for TBS earned Moll a Peabody Award and his first Emmy Award (the film was nominated for three). Other television credits include programming for Vh1, A&E, Hallmark, and History.

In addition to his work as a filmmaker, Moll established and operated The Shoah Foundation (currently the USC Shoah Foundation Institute) with Steven Spielberg for the purpose of videotaping Holocaust survivor testimonies around the world. The Foundation videotaped over 50,000 testimonies, in 57 countries.  

Born in Allentown and raised in Los Angeles, Moll earned a degree from the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Before graduation, he worked in feature film development for producer Lauren Shuler Donner. He then became assistant to renowned French filmmaker Francis Veber (La Cage Aux Folles).

Moll is a member of the DGA, the Motion Picture Academy, and the Television Academy. Moll serves on the Executive Committee of the Documentary Branch of the Motion Picture Academy, and as co-chair for the DGA Documentary Award.