Irene Taylor

Directing

Irene Taylor

Born

1970-06-15 (56)

Place of birth

St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Known for

Directing

Credits

23 titles

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 Be…

Known for

I Am: Celine Dion poster
7.6

A raw and honest behind-the-scenes look at the iconic superstar's struggle with a life-altering illness. Serving as a love letter to her fans, this inspirational documentary highlights the music that has guided her life while also showcasing the resilience of the human spirit.

I Am: Celine Dion

2024

Leave No Trace poster
6.6

In February 2022, the Boy Scouts of America reached a $2.7 billion agreement over sex abuse claims, the largest such settlement in history. Leave No Trace explores how this all-American institution went so horrifyingly wrong.

Leave No Trace

2022

Siren: The Voices of Shelley Beattie poster
6.0

Shelley Beattie, a Deaf woman and champion bodybuilder, found fame in the 1990s on the hit TV show American Gladiators, where she competed under the name "Siren" before her untimely death in 2008. While charismatic, gorgeous, and a fierce competitor, Beattie also battled personal demons, struggling with mental illness, addiction, and questions of her own identity. Framed by the insight of another Deaf woman in Hollywood who found herself in the spotlight at the same time, Academy Award-winning actress Marlee Matlin, the documentary unpacks the story of Shelley "Siren" Beattie and her complex legacy entwined with beauty, mental illness, and love.

Siren: The Voices of Shelley Beattie

2025

Céline brise le silence poster
6.0

For her first interview in almost four years, Céline Dion confides with emotion to host Jean-Philippe Dion. Together, they talk about the rare disease she suffers from, her new life, her career and her future.

Céline brise le silence

2024

Trees and Other Entanglements poster
5.2

A poetic meditation on nature, mortality, and the passage of time in her exploration of our symbiotic nexus with trees. Weaving together several stories of arboreal adoration, unfolds as a deeply human tale of our connection to the natural world and to one another.

Trees and Other Entanglements

2023

Beware the Slenderman poster
6.5

In this horrifyingly modern fairytale lurks an online Boogeyman and two 12-year-old girls who would kill for him. The entrance to the internet quickly leads to its darkest basement. How responsible are our children for what they find there?

Beware the Slenderman

2016

Film credits

Behind the camera

I Am: Celine Dion poster
7.6

A raw and honest behind-the-scenes look at the iconic superstar's struggle with a life-altering illness. Serving as a love letter to her fans, this inspirational documentary highlights the music that has guided her life while also showcasing the resilience of the human spirit.

I Am: Celine Dion

2024

I Am: Celine Dion poster
7.6

A raw and honest behind-the-scenes look at the iconic superstar's struggle with a life-altering illness. Serving as a love letter to her fans, this inspirational documentary highlights the music that has guided her life while also showcasing the resilience of the human spirit.

I Am: Celine Dion

2024

I Am: Celine Dion poster
7.6

A raw and honest behind-the-scenes look at the iconic superstar's struggle with a life-altering illness. Serving as a love letter to her fans, this inspirational documentary highlights the music that has guided her life while also showcasing the resilience of the human spirit.

I Am: Celine Dion

2024

Leave No Trace poster
6.6

In February 2022, the Boy Scouts of America reached a $2.7 billion agreement over sex abuse claims, the largest such settlement in history. Leave No Trace explores how this all-American institution went so horrifyingly wrong.

Leave No Trace

2022

Leave No Trace poster
6.6

In February 2022, the Boy Scouts of America reached a $2.7 billion agreement over sex abuse claims, the largest such settlement in history. Leave No Trace explores how this all-American institution went so horrifyingly wrong.

Leave No Trace

2022

Siren: The Voices of Shelley Beattie poster
6.0

Shelley Beattie, a Deaf woman and champion bodybuilder, found fame in the 1990s on the hit TV show American Gladiators, where she competed under the name "Siren" before her untimely death in 2008. While charismatic, gorgeous, and a fierce competitor, Beattie also battled personal demons, struggling with mental illness, addiction, and questions of her own identity. Framed by the insight of another Deaf woman in Hollywood who found herself in the spotlight at the same time, Academy Award-winning actress Marlee Matlin, the documentary unpacks the story of Shelley "Siren" Beattie and her complex legacy entwined with beauty, mental illness, and love.

Siren: The Voices of Shelley Beattie

2025

Siren: The Voices of Shelley Beattie poster
6.0

Shelley Beattie, a Deaf woman and champion bodybuilder, found fame in the 1990s on the hit TV show American Gladiators, where she competed under the name "Siren" before her untimely death in 2008. While charismatic, gorgeous, and a fierce competitor, Beattie also battled personal demons, struggling with mental illness, addiction, and questions of her own identity. Framed by the insight of another Deaf woman in Hollywood who found herself in the spotlight at the same time, Academy Award-winning actress Marlee Matlin, the documentary unpacks the story of Shelley "Siren" Beattie and her complex legacy entwined with beauty, mental illness, and love.

Siren: The Voices of Shelley Beattie

2025

Trees and Other Entanglements poster
5.2

A poetic meditation on nature, mortality, and the passage of time in her exploration of our symbiotic nexus with trees. Weaving together several stories of arboreal adoration, unfolds as a deeply human tale of our connection to the natural world and to one another.

Trees and Other Entanglements

2023

Trees and Other Entanglements poster
5.2

A poetic meditation on nature, mortality, and the passage of time in her exploration of our symbiotic nexus with trees. Weaving together several stories of arboreal adoration, unfolds as a deeply human tale of our connection to the natural world and to one another.

Trees and Other Entanglements

2023

Beware the Slenderman poster
6.5

In this horrifyingly modern fairytale lurks an online Boogeyman and two 12-year-old girls who would kill for him. The entrance to the internet quickly leads to its darkest basement. How responsible are our children for what they find there?

Beware the Slenderman

2016

Beware the Slenderman poster
6.5

In this horrifyingly modern fairytale lurks an online Boogeyman and two 12-year-old girls who would kill for him. The entrance to the internet quickly leads to its darkest basement. How responsible are our children for what they find there?

Beware the Slenderman

2016

Open Your Eyes poster
9.0

Living under the Himalayan sun, their eyes have slowly gone milky white. Manisara and Durga have cataracts, and their mountain home in Nepal has become a warren of darkness. Shot over three days, Open Your Eyes follows their extraordinary journey down the mountain for a chance to see again.

Open Your Eyes

2015

Hear and Now poster
6.8

Filmmaker Irene Taylor Brodsky aims her camera at her own life to capture the remarkable transformation of her deaf parents, who decided to undergo a life-changing procedure to restore their hearing after spending 65 years in silence. Chronicling her parents' experiences over their first year of having sound in their lives, Brodsky tells a deeply personal tale that moved viewers to bestow it with the Documentary Audience Award at Sundance 2007.

Hear and Now

2007

Saving Pelican 895 poster
6.7

HBO Documentary Films Presents the story of the effort to save the 895th surviving oiled pelican in Louisiana, showing how conservationists, government agencies and wildlife activists joined forces to preserve this one life.

Saving Pelican 895

2011

The Final Inch poster
6.2

A documentary about the ongoing efforts to eradicate polio in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

The Final Inch

2009

The Final Inch poster
6.2

A documentary about the ongoing efforts to eradicate polio in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

The Final Inch

2009

Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements poster
5.4

A deeply personal portrait of three lives, and the discoveries that lie beyond loss: a deaf boy growing up, his deaf grandfather growing old, and Beethoven the year he was blindsided by deafness and wrote his iconic sonata.

Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements

2019

Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements poster
5.4

A deeply personal portrait of three lives, and the discoveries that lie beyond loss: a deaf boy growing up, his deaf grandfather growing old, and Beethoven the year he was blindsided by deafness and wrote his iconic sonata.

Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements

2019

The Listening Project poster
NR

The profound impact of technology on the lives and identities of young deaf adults is explored in The Listening Project. Fourteen deaf people tell stories beginning with a childhood wide-eyed about sound, into the growing pains of adolescence and, eventually, their professional lives. Sometimes humorous, always tender, The Listening Project is a timely coming of age story, one we haven't heard before.

The Listening Project

2018

One Last Hug poster
6.8

"One Last Hug" chronicles a three day summer camp for children learning to cope with the death of a loved one. With the guidance of trained professionals, grieving children as young as seven years old learn that their feelings are normal, and that by talking about them they can begin to heal. A testament to the healing power of shared sorrow, One Last Hug shows the often-unseen and particular experience of children's grief.

One Last Hug

2014

Homeless: The Soundtrack poster
NR

After being taken away from her parents as a baby by the state and given up for adoption, musician "Cami" Jenni Alpert went searching for her birth father. She finally finds him: homeless, toothless, addicted. And a musician, just like her.

Homeless: The Soundtrack

2018