Irene Taylor
Directing
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 pa…
