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Irene Taylor is an Oscar-nominated, multiple-Emmy, duPont and Peabody-winning director and producer.
Her most recent film Trees And Other Entanglements was released by HBO at the end of 2023 and explores of our human obsession with the arboreal world.
In 2022, Irene won a Columbia-duPont Award for her tragic investigation into one of the most trusted institutions in America, Leave No Trace: A Hidden History of The Boy Scouts (Hulu).
Premiering at Sundance 2019 and later nominated for Special Merit in Documentary Filmmaking at the 2020 Primetime Emmy Awards, Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements tells Irene's very personal story about her deaf son, her deaf father and Ludwig Van Beethoven, as he went deaf while composing his famous sonata.
Irene 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 Sundance in 2007, a Peabody and top 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 true-crime documentary about two adolescent girls obsessed with an internet bogeyman, Beware the Slenderman, received nominations for an Emmy in 2017 and two Critics' Choice Awards, for Best Director and Best Documentary.
Irene's additional credits include several theatrically-released short films, all with 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 Mexican 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.
Irene directed One Last Hug: Three Days At Grief Camp, which won the 2014 Prime Time Emmy for Best Children's Programming and in 2016 she released Open Your Eyes, about an aging couple living in the Himalayas determined to regain their sight.
Irene's short opinion film on the impact of hearing technology and the human experience, Between Sound and Silence, was released by The New York Times Op-Docs.
Irene's early career began in Kathmandu, Nepal, working as a Himalayan Mountain guide and author.
Her book of photographic essays, Buddhas in Disguise, became the basis for her first documentary film, made in 1993 with UNICEF.
She is a graduate of New York University and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and was a producer for CBS Sunday Morning in 1998-2001.
Irene founded Vermilion Films in 2006 and is a member of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and The Television Academy.
She lives in Portland, Oregon.
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A raw and honest behindthescenes look...I Am: Celine Dion 2024
A raw and honest behind-the-scenes look at the iconic superstar's struggle with a life-altering illness. Serving as a love letter to her fans, this inspirational documentary highlights the music that has guided her life while also showcasing the resilience of the human spirit.
For her first interview in almost...Céline brise le silence 2024
For her first interview in almost four years, Céline Dion confides with emotion to host Jean-Philippe Dion. Together, they talk about the rare disease she suffers from, her new life, her career and her future.
A poetic meditation on nature mortality...Trees and Other Entanglements 2023
A poetic meditation on nature, mortality, and the passage of time in her exploration of our symbiotic nexus with trees. Weaving together several stories of arboreal adoration, unfolds as a deeply human tale of our connection to the natural world and to one another.
In February 2022 the Boy Scouts of...Leave No Trace 2022
In February 2022, the Boy Scouts of America reached a $2.7 billion agreement over sex abuse claims, the largest such settlement in history. Leave No Trace explores how this all-American institution went so horrifyingly wrong.
A deeply personal portrait of three...Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements 2019
A deeply personal portrait of three lives, and the discoveries that lie beyond loss: a deaf boy growing up, his deaf grandfather growing old, and Beethoven the year he was blindsided by deafness and wrote his iconic sonata.
The profound impact of technology on...The Listening Project 2018
The profound impact of technology on the lives and identities of young deaf adults is explored in The Listening Project. Fourteen deaf people tell stories beginning with a childhood wide-eyed about sound, into the growing pains of adolescence and, eventually, their professional lives. Sometimes humorous, always tender, The Listening Project is a timely coming of age story, one we haven't heard before.
In this horrifyingly modern fairytale lurks...Beware the Slenderman 2016
In this horrifyingly modern fairytale lurks an online Boogeyman and two 12-year-old girls who would kill for him. The entrance to the internet quickly leads to its darkest basement. How responsible are our children for what they find there?
Living under the Himalayan sun their...Open Your Eyes 2015
Living under the Himalayan sun, their eyes have slowly gone milky white. Manisara and Durga have cataracts, and their mountain home in Nepal has become a warren of darkness. Shot over three days, Open Your Eyes follows their extraordinary journey down the mountain for a chance to see again.
One Last Hug chronicles a three...One Last Hug 2014
"One Last Hug" chronicles a three day summer camp for children learning to cope with the death of a loved one. With the guidance of trained professionals, grieving children as young as seven years old learn that their feelings are normal, and that by talking about them they can begin to heal. A testament to the healing power of shared sorrow, One Last Hug shows the often-unseen and particular experience of children's grief.
HBO Documentary Films Presents the story...Saving Pelican 895 2011
HBO Documentary Films Presents the story of the effort to save the 895th surviving oiled pelican in Louisiana, showing how conservationists, government agencies and wildlife activists joined forces to preserve this one life.
Filmmaker Irene Taylor Brodsky aims her...Hear and Now 2007
Filmmaker Irene Taylor Brodsky aims her camera at her own life to capture the remarkable transformation of her deaf parents, who decided to undergo a life-changing procedure to restore their hearing after spending 65 years in silence. Chronicling her parents' experiences over their first year of having sound in their lives, Brodsky tells a deeply personal tale that moved viewers to bestow it with the Documentary Audience Award at Sundance 2007.
