John Gilbert Young was also a VP of Production and Editorial Director for
Human Relations Media (HRM) for almost two decades, having created over one hundred award-winning programs for the company. He has also supervised a series of shorts entitled Amazing Kids of Character, Profiles in Courage and Portraits of Empathy with Human Relations Media in collaboration with Anson Schloat.[1]
His movie Parallel Sons won the Audience Award for "Best Feature" at the
Frameline Film Festival (the San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival),
Outfest (the Los Angeles LGBTQ Film Festival) and The Florida Film Festival.
Darien Sills Evans with the leading role of Young's movie The Reception won the Grand Jury Award for "Outstanding Actor in a Feature Film" at the
Outfest Los Angeles Festival in 2005.
Derrick L. Middleton with the leading role in Young's movie Rivers Wash Over Me won the Grand Jury Award for "Outstanding Actor in a Feature Film" at the
Outfest Los Angeles Festival in 2009. The film also one "Best feature" at the Reeling Film festival in Chicago that year.