Paul Taylor is an award-winning writer and director, known for his unique ability to subvert norms, toy with audience expectations, walk fine lines, and push boundaries. His directorial feature debut, Driftwood, received the Grand Jury Prize for narrative feature at the 2016 Slamdance Film Festival, with Variety describing it as a "beguiling feature debut", Hammer to Nail dubbing it a "riveting cinematic experience", and Indiewire including it in their list of five great films from Slamdance 2016. Keyframe also praised the film, calling it an "...oddly seductive and discomfiting fairy tale".
Taylor's follow-up short film, Succulent, screened at the 2018 Sidewalk Film Festival in Birmingham, AL, and was part of Spectacle Theater's "Hidden Visions" series in Brooklyn. A writer at Film Threat described it as "...one of the strangest films I've seen in a long time", which Taylor considers a compliment.
His newest short, Kiddo, premiered at the 2022 Sarasota Film Festival and the Tallgrass Film Festival, where it won the award for "Outstanding Screenplay". Film Threat praised the film, saying it is "...a textbook example of how fully a single idea can be expressed in the short film format".
Taylor is also working on his feature-length script, Reruns, which was initially developed through Sundance Collab in 2021 and was most recently invited to participate at the 2023 Stowe Story Labs to further its development.
Additionally, his feature-length script, Anne with a Van, was a Semifinalist of the 2024 Screencraft Feature Competition, a Quarterfinalist of Final Draft's Big Break Screenwriting Competition, and a Second Rounder at Austin.
Furthermore, his short script, The Driver's Seat, was a Quarterfinalist in the 2024 Big Break Competition.
