Nick Taylor – Delving Deep into Film Business

The shape of the film business has been completely altered by the expansion of media culture and the advent of new technologies.In fact, it can be said without an ounce of doubt that the film business has been on a roll since its inception. For example, the 1980s saw the widespread adoption of the videocassette recorder (VCR), which opened up new possibilities for the distribution of films as videocassettes. Similarly,the introduction of cable and satellite television systems that delivered media directly to our TV screens created additional markets for film distribution and income sources for film producers.

Looking at it from a production perspective, with the arrival of higher-quality video cameras, more filmmakers began using video technology thatlowers production costs and makes the process of converting video for a theatrical release much easier. In the following years, the increasing capabilities of computer animation as well as digital video cameras and digital video discs (DVDs) accelerated these trends. With computers emerging as a new production unit in filmmaking and the internet as a platform for film distribution and exhibition, the sphere of the film business changed entirely.

Born on October 11, 1958, Nick Taylor always had the drive to make his name renowned worldwide. Raised in Jersey City, NJ, Taylor graduated from New Jersey City University and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Media. Knowing his passionfor becominga world-famous actor, he studied acting in New York at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute. While studying, he used to play drums and worked in a clothing store. But movies being his prime interest, he spent a lot of time going to theaters. After completing his acting classes, he started working as a handyman in the early 1980s at New York’s Actor’s Playhouse. Through his dedication, he got an opportunity to work with Danny DeVito and Harvey Fierstein in 2002 on the film Death to Smoochy.

In the late 1980s, Taylor did his first television commercial in which he played a singing short-order cook for the New York oldies radio station, CBS-FM. In the early 1990s, he decided to explore his writing and directing skills. His directorial debut resulted in the creation of the award-winning short, Rocky and Bullwinkle: One Last Story. During this time,he also appeared on stage in regional productions of Wait Until Dark and American Buffalo.

In 1995, Taylor co-produced another award-winning documentary Special K, which aired on PBS. In the same year, he started working on his first indie feature, the underground, A Clown in Babylon. In 2003, he took up the role of Mickey opposite Edward Asner and Estelle Parsons in the stage production of Mark Eisenstein’s World War Now,directed by Tom O’ Horgan. In 2004, he appeared as Tom Gillis in the short-lived TV series The Jury, produced and directed by Barry Levinson.

Later in 2004, he co-produced the award-winning Meet the Pitts and kept its story different from his usual masterpieces. He presentedMeet the Pitts as“an edgy reality-com that would fit well with a network such as Showtime, HBO, or Comedy Central.” After the huge success of Meet the Pitts, Taylor wrote the script of Paradise East in 2010, he decided to direct and co-produce the film as well and the film turned out to be one of his many award-winning achievements. It was based on a dark comedy about a desperately dysfunctional lower middle-class family fiercely struggling to make it in the twentieth century. In 2011, Paradise East won the Award of Excellence, at Indie Fest USA International Film Festival, Best American Feature at International Film Festival Ireland, Best Dark Comedy at New York International Film Festival, Silver Lei Award at Honolulu Film Awards, and Best Directorial Debut at New York International Film Festival. Taylor’s efforts and hard work enabled him to progressively step forward in his domain in the most successful way possible.