Nils Taylor graduated with an MFA in film production from Chapman University During that time he made several short films These shorts along with his thesis film a 20minute short called The Fighting Kind 2009 went on to win several film festivals worldwide His first feature film Lights 2015 was a low budget scifi thriller set in the barren desert of Death Valley On Lights Taylor not only handled the directing duties but took on several postproduction roles to ensure the film could be completed on the producers modest budget This experience was the forerunner to Taylors second feature Quarries 2017 which was cowritten and coproduced with Nicole Marie Johnson Quarries is a modern thriller about a group of woman on a hiking expedition who are attacked by deranged hunters Taylor also currently teaches film production at Saddleback College southern California