Oscar winning and two-time Emmy winning filmmaker James Moll is a director and producer of film, television, and short form film packages.

Moll established Allentown Productions, which has been based at Universal Studios since 1993.  After years of focus on non-fiction filmmaking, Moll’s most recent focus is the development of scripted feature films and television. 

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 to run two marathons per day, for more than 100 days, 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 complex psychological legacy that a prominent Nazi leader 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. It is now included in the Saving Private Ryan box set, The World War II Collection.

Moll received an Academy Award in 1999 for directing and editing the feature documentary The Last Days, 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.  Moll received a Christopher Award for this series. 

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

Survivors of the Holocaust, a two-hour documentary produced by Moll for TBS earned Moll his first Emmy Award (the film was nominated for three) and also the Peabody Award.  Moll received the Edward R. Murrow Award for producing The Lost Children of Berlin for A&E.  Other television credits include executive producing New Kids on the Block: A Behind the Music Special Event for Vh1; other non-fiction programming for Hallmark and The History Channel; as well as directing/producing various short form film packages for the Primetime Emmy Awards and The World Stunt Awards. 

In addition to his work as a filmmaker, Moll established and operated The Shoah Foundation (currently the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education) 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 USC School of Cinematic Arts.  Before graduation, he worked in feature film development for producer Lauren Shuler Donner at Walt Disney Studios.  He then became assistant to, and then director of development for, renowned French writer/director Francis Veber (La Cage Aux Folles, The Dinner Game). 

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