Henna Taylor

Henna Taylor is a selftaught documentary filmmaker She began making short videos of her time living with four rural midwives in Cambodia Over the next decade her nonlinear relationship with filmmaking grew exponentially She has since written directed filmed edited and produced six awardwinning short documentary films including Best Mountain Short Film at BANFF Her first highly anticipated feature length documentary An Accidental Life debuted in 2022 Hennas work is emotionally deep and wide and in its best moments achieves that much soughtafter emotional catharsis central to the tradition of storytelling and theater Henna builds the stories she tells by staying present for the absurd imperfect painful hilarious and terribly vulnerable states of the human experience Her compassion and relationship with her subjects is shared clearly and poignantly through her work