Question: What producer and political activist co-founded a production company with Bud Yorkin?
Context: Velvet Film is a film production company.  It was created 1986 in Berlin, Germany by the Haitian filmmaker and political activist Raoul Peck as Velvet Film GmbH.  The company is now based in France, Haiti and in the United States of America.  Lumumba, la mort d'un prophète was 1991 the first feature film produced by the company.  The film was successfully shown all over Europe and North America and so enabled the partnership of Velvet Film in future production with JBA Production (France), Arte (France and Germany), HBO (USA) and others.  All later documentaries, feature films and TV dramas of Peck have been produced or co-produced by Velvet Film. Aaron A. Brooks, also known as, Aaron Kinsley-Brooks (born January 24, 1964, San Francisco, California) is an American rock musician, drummer, producer and composer.  He co-founded The Little Death with Moby, Laura Dawn and Daron Murphy.  He is a founding member of the American alternative rock band, The Mars Bonfire.  Aaron also plays or has played drums for the electronic pop band Leisure Cruise; Grammy nominated electro-pop chanteuse Angela McCluskey (of Télépopmusik and Wild Colonials); Grammy award-winning producer/songwriter Mark Hudson; Emmy award-winning actress and singer Jackie Cruz; Grammy award-winning artist Moby; Singer/songwriter and progressive political activist Laura Dawn; Grammy award-winning bassist/songwriter and rock musician Duff McKagen of Guns N' Roses; Circle of Soul; Erin Evermore; Grammy award-winning pianist and songwriter A.J. Croce; Grammy winning singer/songwriter Lana Del Ray; Writer, radio host, progressive political comic and guitarist/singer Jamie Kilstein and his band The Agenda; Model/actress/singer/songwriter Heidi Merrill; And NY based rock singer Carleigh Jade. Merlin L. Miller (born 1956) is an American Paleoconservative political activist, independent film director, writer, and producer.  His works include the 1998 television film "A Place to Grow", starring Gary Morris, and the 2000 film "Jericho", starring Mark Valley.  During the 2000s he founded a Tennessee-based production company, Americana Pictures.  He has also written articles for the "Barnes Review" and the "Occidental Observer". Alan David Yorkin, known as Bud Yorkin (February 22, 1926 – August 18, 2015), was an American film and television producer, director, writer, and actor. Ken Fero (born 1961) is a UK documentary filmmaker, political activist and co-founder of production company Migrant Media. Richard Harold Smith, AC (born 18 March 1944) is an Australian entrepreneur, businessman, record-breaking aviator, philanthropist, and political activist.  He is the founder of Dick Smith Electronics, Dick Smith Foods and Australian Geographic, and was selected as the 1986 Australian of the Year.  In 2010 he founded the media production company Smith&Nasht with the intention of producing films about global issues.  In 2015 he was awarded the Companion of the Order of Australia, and is a fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. Norman Milton Lear (born July 27, 1922) is an American television writer and producer who produced such 1970s sitcoms as "All in the Family", "Sanford and Son", "One Day at a Time", "The Jeffersons", "Good Times", and "Maude".  As a political activist, he founded the advocacy organization People for the American Way in 1981 and has supported First Amendment rights and progressive causes. Nicole Yorkin is an American television writer and producer.  She is the daughter of Bud Yorkin.  In 1997, she shared an Emmy Award nomination with several producers of "Chicago Hope" in the category "Outstanding Drama Series".  In 2003, she and her partner Dawn Prestwich won a Writers Guild of America award for the pilot episode of the episodic drama "The Education of Max Bickford". Tandem Productions, Inc. (a.k.a. Tandem Enterprises, Inc.) was a film and television production company that was founded in 1958 by television director Bud Yorkin and television writer/producer Norman Lear. Paul Michael Weyrich (October 7, 1942 – December 18, 2008) was an American religious conservative political activist and commentator, most notable as a figurehead of the New Right.  He co-founded the conservative think tanks The Heritage Foundation, the Free Congress Foundation, and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).  He coined the term "moral majority," the name of the political action group Moral Majority that he co-founded in 1979 with Jerry Falwell.  He switched from the Roman Rite of the Roman Catholic Church to that of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church and was ordained protodeacon.
Answer: Norman Lear