Irene Taylor

Irene Taylor is an Oscar-nominated, Emmy and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker whose first feature documentary, Hear and Now, won the Audience Award at Sundance in 2007, a Peabody Award and numerous Jury and Audience Awards around the world. She recently created a sequel, Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements, which had its world premiere at Sundance 2019. Her other recent projects include the HBO feature Beware the Slenderman, which was nominated for a 2018 Emmy, and received two Critics' Choice Award nominations for Best Director and Best Documentary. For the New York Times Op-Docs Irene published Between Sound and Silence, and her documentary short Homeless: The Soundtrack premiered at Tribeca Film Festival, where it won Special Jury Mention. Her other award-winning films include Open Your Eyes (2015), One Last Hug: Three Days at Grief Camp (2014), Saving Pelican 895 (2011), and the Oscar-nominated The Final Inch (2009). Irene has also worked as a Himalayan mountain guide, a news journalist and founded Vermilion Films in Portland, Oregon in 2006. She is a graduate of New York University and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.