Irene Taylor Brodsky

Irene Taylor Brodsky is an Oscar-nominated, Emmy and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker whose first feature documentary, Hear and Now, won the Audience Award at Sundance in 2007, a Peabody Award and numerous Jury and Audience Awards around the world. She recently created a sequel, Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements, which had its world premiere at Sundance 2019 and will premiere on HBO this year. Her other recent projects include the HBO feature Beware the Slenderman, which was nominated for a 2018 Emmy, and received two Critics' Choice Award nominations for Best Director and Best Documentary. For the New York Times Op-Docs Irene published Between Sound and Silence, and her documentary short Homeless: The Soundtrack premiered at Tribeca Film Festival, where it won Special Jury Mention. Her other award-winning films include Open Your Eyes (2015), One Last Hug: Three Days at Grief Camp (2014), Saving Pelican 895 (2011), and the Oscar-nominated The Final Inch (2009). Irene has also worked as a Himalayan mountain guide, a news journalist and founded Vermilion Films in Portland, Oregon in 2006. She is a graduate of New York University and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.