Talent Guide

Katrina Taylor

  • Discipline:Producer
  • Program Year:Documentary Lab 2012

Bio

Katrina Taylor is an award-winning documentary filmmaker based in Portland, Oregon. She was assistant editor for the Academy Award winning The Empowerment Project, as well as the grassroots coordinator for distribution. As associate producer for the Discovery Channel Global Education Project, she created and customized educational programming for an international audience. Taylor most recently acted as Director of Acquisitions for Collective Eye, spearheading the acquisition of socially engaging documentaries, as well as marketing and digital delivery to the educational market. She contributed to the success of the company’s latest film Queen of The Sun, through assistance with educational distribution and strategy.

Left Ahead; Associate Producer, Assistant Editor 2008. Documentary Filmmaking: Tips from the Trenches; Producer, Editor 2008. Green Hair, Grey Hair; Director, Editor, and Producer Best Short Documentary at Our City Film Festival, Selected for Carolina Film and Video Festival, D.C. Independent Film Festival and DIY Film Festival 2008. Telly Awards for Videos Produced with Discovery Channel Global Education Partnership 2004. A Measure of Our Humanity: HIV/AIDS in Namibia; Director, Producer and Editor: Communicator Awards highest honor.

Current Project

Boone (Documentary Feature)

Logline

Three goat farmers in Southern Oregon are transformed by the physical and emotional grit of living a life of self-reliance in Boone, an exploration of what is possible when personal beliefs are aligned with action.