Nate Taylor is an American
filmmaker
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based in
New York City
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. Taylor is son of documentary director Eric Taylor and contemporary artist Sali Taylor.
Career
Nathan Bauman Taylor began his professional film career as a production assistant at the age of sixteen. Over the next six years he worked a variety of roles on-set, ranging from extra to dolly grip, until he ended up landing a job at the NYC-based commercial
post-production
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house
Crew Cuts. He remained at Crew Cuts for 12 years, where he edited numerous national
television commercials
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for the likes of
Pepsi
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,
Verizon
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,
GE and
Saturday Night Live
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. In addition to a large body of commercial work, Taylor has edited a number of long form pieces, including music videos, short films, and worked on the independent feature, ''
Kissing Jessica Stein
''Kissing Jessica Stein'' is a 2001 American independent romantic comedy film written and co-produced by the film's stars, Jennifer Westfeldt and Heather Juergensen, and directed by Charles Herman-Wurmfeld. The film also stars Scott Cohen, ...
'' (directed by
Charlie Herman-Wurmfeld).
Showcasing the film-making talents he refined while working in post-production, Taylor started directing short works in 2003, including viral web videos, spec commercials, indie music videos, and a short film. In 2008 he directed a
machinima
Machinima () is the use of Real-time computing, real-time computer graphics engines to create a cinematic production. The word "Machinima" is a portmanteau of the words ''machine'' and ''Film, cinema''. According to Guinness World Records, ma ...
parody entitled ''MMOvie''. Created using the
World of Warcraft
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game engine the short was a massive online success, garnering over 3 million hits internationally and receiving nominations for a 2008 Webby Award and a Golden Trailer Award. The project also got the notice of Austria filmmaker Daniel Moshel, who featured Taylor and his team in a documentary about the virtual world titled ''Login 2 Life''.
In 2012 Taylor completed his first full-length feature film, ''
Forgetting the Girl'', an adaptation of a short story of the same title written by
Peter Moore Smith. On March 2, it had its world premiere at the 2012
Cinequest
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film festival. Critics praised Taylor for showing "great skill and confidence in the direction" and delivering a film which was "twisted and brilliant" and "disturbingly beautiful". The film will be distributed in North America by Film Movement in October 2013.
Video art
Taylor is also a
VJ performing under the name Full Stealth. As VJ Full Stealth he performs live, improvisational video art with bands and DJs. His largest show was a nine-hour set in the House Tent at the 2007
ltra Music Festivalref> in Miami, Florida.
References
External links
Official Nate Taylor HomepageOfficial ''Forgetting the Girl'' Website*
Nate Taylor's Flickr PhotostreamNate Taylor at Kyle Edit
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Film directors from New Hampshire
1976 births
Living people