Lyn Davis Lear
Lyn Davis Lear is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker, celebrated environmentalist, and political activist. Shining a light on society’s most urgent issues drives Lyn’s creative and activist endeavors. She has produced, executive produced, and advised documentaries, narrative films, and filmmakers on topics ranging from climate change, and investigative journalism, to new frontiers in cutting-edge medicine and technology.
Her recent projects include the critically acclaimed documentary I Got A Monster, season two of The Vow on HBO, Bring Your Own Brigade on Peacock, and The Lincoln Project series on Showtime.
Lyn is in production on several projects, including a groundbreaking documentary about the plant medicine ibogaine and addiction with director Lucy Walker. Ibogaine Stories is the first film on psychedelics to be selected by Tribeca or any major film festival.
Her current slate also includes two unique projects on international con women; the untold epidemic of malignant narcissism titled Empathy Not Included; a cli-fi series about a female CIA scientist exposing the impacts of climate change with Eden Productions; and a documentary series about Burning Man. She is also in development on two narrative series, one with Bad Robot about UFOs, the supernatural, near-death experiences; and one about disinformation and the fossil fuel industry titled The Men Who Sold The World, with writer James Graham.
Lyn’s past films include the Emmy® and BAFTA-nominated films The Great Hack, The Fight, Fantastic Fungi: The Magic Beneath Us, and Where’s My Roy Cohn?, Rita Moreno: Just A Girl Who Decided To Go For It, and Rebel Hearts. In 2014, Lyn produced What’s Possible, the opening film for the UN Climate Summit with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, which reached 127 million people worldwide.
Since 2010, Lyn has been a Trustee of the Board of Directors of the Sundance Institute. She also serves on the Board of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), and The Norman Lear Center’s Hollywood, Health & Society at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication. Lyn is a member of Producers Guild of America, and an advisor for Obvious Ventures, a VC fund for world positive investments, and The Near Future Conference.
Among her many awards, Lyn was honored alongside Vice President Al Gore by UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. Lyn and her husband, Norman, received the Amicus Award from the International Documentary Association (IDA).
In 2000, Lyn and Norman purchased an original Dunlap copy of the Declaration of Independence. They created the Declaration of Independence Road Trip, which brought the document to every state in the nation. Declare Yourself followed, which registered over one million voters.
In 1989, Lyn, Norman, and Alan and Cindy Horn, founded the Environmental Media Association. EMA’s founding mission was to educate the entertainment industry on environmental issues and award media with environmental messaging that impacted the public.
Lyn holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology. She is the mother to three adult children and resides in Los Angeles.
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