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Taylor Ri'chard
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Ri'chard in 2019
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| Born | February 17, 1980 Church Point, Louisiana, U.S.
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| Years active | 2001–present |
Taylor Ri’chard was born on February 17, 1980. He is an American film director, writer, producer, and actor. He is known for making movies, especially horror films.
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Early Life and Learning
Taylor Ri’chard grew up in Church Point, Louisiana. His parents are Shirley Richard and Robert Taylor. He went to Dillard University in New Orleans, Louisiana. There, he earned a degree in Mass Communications. This means he studied how movies, TV, and radio work.
While he was a student, Ri'chard worked as an intern. He helped with a documentary called Murder on a Sunday Morning. This film later won a very important award, an Academy Award! After college, he continued his studies. He also worked on short films and web series.
Making Movies and TV Shows
In 2001, Taylor Ri’chard was an intern for the HBO documentary Murder on a Sunday Morning. This film won an Academy Award. After that, Ri'chard moved to Atlanta, Georgia. He hoped to join the growing film industry there.
For a few years, he worked in office jobs. But he really wanted to make films. So, he started directing funny short videos called sketch comedy spoofs. In 2009, a big company called Comcast Communications bought one of his sketches. It was a funny version of Beyoncé’s song “Single Ladies”. This video became very popular on Comcast's TV channel.
Starting His Own Film Company
In 2011, Ri'chard left his office job. He started a film company called 3rd Fathom Entertainment with his friend Zach Davis. He then wrote the story for a movie called The Final Project.
They worked for four years to make The Final Project a reality. The movie first showed in April 2015 for special one-night events. A film company in New York, CAVU Pictures, noticed it. They released the movie in theaters in Georgia and Texas in February 2016. Then, it came out in more cities across the country in March 2016.
The Final Project was Taylor Ri’chard's first full-length movie. It was also the first movie he directed. This made him one of the few African-American directors to write and direct a horror film that was shown in theaters. The last person to do this was Ernest Dickerson with his movie Bones in 2001.
Ri'chard is releasing his second movie, "Hallowed Be Thy Name", in spring 2020.
Movies He Has Made
- The Final Project (2016)
- Hallowed Be Thy Name (2020)
