Irene Taylor (filmmaker) explained

Irene Taylor
Birth Date:15 June 1970
Birth Place:St. Louis, Missouri
Occupation:Film director
Film producer
Writer
Cinematographer
editor
Yearsactive:2004 – present
Father:Paul Taylor
Education:New York University, Columbia University Graduate SchoolOf Journalism
Alma Mater:NYU (BA)
Columbia University (MA)

Irene Taylor (born June 15, 1970) is a film director and producer.

Early life

Taylor was born on June 15, 1970, to deaf parents Sally and Paul Taylor.[1] She graduated from New York University and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.[2]

Career

Taylor began her documentary career in photojournalism. Her first feature documentary, Hear and Now, a documentary memoir about her deaf parents, won the Audience Award at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, a Peabody Award, and numerous awards at festivals around the world. It was also nominated by the Producers Guild of America in 2008 for Documentary of the Year. Her HBO feature documentary Beware the Slenderman received two 2017 Critics' Choice Award nominations, for Best Director and Best Documentary, and was also nominated for a 2018 Emmy Award.

Taylor's previous credits include several theatrically released short films, all which aired on HBO. The Final Inch, about the global effort to eradicate polio, was nominated for an Academy award, multiple Emmys, and won the IDA's Pare Lorentz Award. After the 2010 Gulf oil spill, she followed the life of a single bird found coated in oil, and made Saving Pelican 895 which won an Emmy for its affecting music. She directed One Last Hug: Three Days at Grief Camp, which won the 2014 Prime Time Emmy for Best Children's Programming. In 2016 she released Open Your Eyes, about an aging couple living in the Himalayas determined to regain their sight. Taylor's short opinion film Between Sound and Silence was released by The New York Times Op-Docs.

Taylor's early career began in Kathmandu, Nepal, working as a Himalayan Mountain guide and author. Her photography book, Buddhas in Disguise, became the basis for her first documentary film, made in 1993 with the United Nations. She was a producer for CBS Sunday Morning, and founded her production company Vermilion Films in 2006.[3]

In 2019, Taylor made Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements about her deaf son, her deaf father and Beethoven, as he went deaf while writing his famous sonata. It premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, and was nominated for a 2020 PrimeTime Emmy Award for Special Merit in Documentary Filmmaking. That year, Taylor founded The Treehouse Project, a nonprofit forging broader accessibility to documentary film.

Taylor's film Leave No Trace: A Hidden History of the Boy Scouts premiered at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival, and won a 2022 Columbia-DuPont award.

In 2021 it was announced that Taylor would be working with Sony Music on a documentary about the French-Canadian singer Celine Dion. The film, , was released on June 21, 2024.[4]

Taylor's documentaries have appeared on HBO, Hulu, CBS, A&E, Fox, and the History Channel.

Filmography

Awards and nominations

Select works

See also

References

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Turan . Kenneth . 2019-01-29 . With ‘Moonlight Sonata,’ Irene Taylor Brodsky returns to her family and film roots . 2023-09-17 . Los Angeles Times . en-US.
  2. News: Vincent . Glyn . Sound Stages . 28 June 2024 . Columbia Magazine.
  3. https://vermilionpictures.com/ Vermilion Films
  4. News: Willman . Chris . ‘I Am: Celine Dion’ Director Irene Taylor on Whether We Will See the Legend Sing Again, and Filming That Harrowing Climax: ‘She Said, I Don’t Want You to Cut That Scene Out’ . 28 June 2024 . Variety . 25 June 2024.
  5. Web site: Saving Pelican 895 . HBO . 4 August 2021 . en.
  6. Web site: One Last Hug: Three Days at Grief Camp . HBO . 4 August 2021 . en.
  7. Web site: Vermilion Films » Open Your Eyes, 2015 . 4 August 2021.
  8. Web site: Vermilion Films » Homeless: The Soundtrack . 4 August 2021.
  9. Web site: Moonlight Sonata Documentary . Moonlight Sonata Documentary . 4 August 2021.
  10. https://ritdml.rit.edu/dspace/bitstream/1850/9279/1/NTIDArticle03-15-2007.pdf "Rochester Native Brings Her Famous Film Home to Benefit Deaf Students"
  11. http://www.ntid.rit.edu/media/full_text.php?article_id=1062 "Hear and Now Released on DVD."
  12. White, Thomas. "Meet the Academy Award Nominees: Irene Taylor Brodsky – The Final Inch", International Documentary Association, February 2009.
  13. Web site: Critics' Choice Documentary Award Winners . RT Staff . 2 November 2017 . 16 August 2023 . Rotten Tomatoes.

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