Amy

Amy Eldon
Advisory Committee 

Amy Eldon grew up in Kenya and London and graduated from Boston University with a degree in Communications. At the age of 22 she moved to Los Angeles where she conceived of and presented the Emmy-nominated TBS documentary, Dying to Tell the Story, which wove the story of her brother, photographer Dan Eldon, killed while working as a photojournalist with Reuters News Agency in Somalia in 1993 together with those of six front-line journalists, including Christiane Amanpour.

Amy also co-produced Soldiers of Peace, a Children’s Crusade, about the Children’s Peace Movement in Colombia for CNN and was the co-creator and presenter of Global Tribe, a PBS series about ordinary people around the world finding solutions to the challenges they face. Together with Julia Roberts, Amy exec-produced Extraordinary Women, about the power of mothers to change our world for OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network) featuring Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Rosie O’Donnell and Christiane Amanpour.

Amy is the recipient of the Young Alumnae Award from Boston University and the Young Audiences of New York Award, and the author of four guided journals published by Chronicle Books, including the best-selling Angel Catcher: A Journal of Loss and Remembrance. 

As the co-founder and co-chair of Creative Visions Foundation, a 501 (c) 3 organization dedicated to supporting creative activists who use media and the arts to create awareness of critical issues and catalyze positive change, Amy has helped oversee more than 260 projects and productions on five continents that have touched more than 100 million people. CV is located in the Dan Eldon Center for Creative Activism in Malibu. 

Amy is married to director Jon Turteltaub and is the mother of Jack, Daniel and Arabella.
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