S.C.V. Taylor
- Producer
- Production Manager
S.C.V. Taylor is an award-winning independent producer. "Welcome to the Show" written & directed by Dorie Barton (Girl Flu) won Best Feature at the 2021 Big Apple Film Festival and Best Ensemble cast at the Big Bear Film Summit. Previous films include, "Holly Star" a quirky Christmas comedy written and directed by Michael Nickles starring Katlyn Carlson (Broadway's "Be More Chill") and Brian Muller ("The Duce"), executive produced by Aaron Lubin and Edward Burns; and "The Witch Files" a teen witch thriller, starring Holly Taylor ("Manifest") and Paget Brewster ("Criminal Minds") written and directed by Kyle Rankin ("Run Hide Fight"). Taylor and Rankin previously collaborated on the romantic zombie comedy "Night of the Living Deb" starring Ray Wise.
Taylor is the great-grandson of silent film pioneer S.E.V. Taylor, who wrote D.W. Griffith's first film "The Adventures of Dollie" (1908), the first movie filmed in Hollywood, "In Old California" (1910), and the first interfaith romance "A Child of the Ghetto" (1910). He was the first American director to receive on screen credit (1910), the first screenwriter to work on retainer, and the first producer to be pictured in a film advertisement. S.E.V. Taylor created one of the first quadruple exposure visual effects shots in Monopol's "The Dead Secret" (1913) with Marion Leonard playing a dual role, and their 1913 production of Carmen contained 426 scenes.
Taylor is the great-grandson of silent film pioneer S.E.V. Taylor, who wrote D.W. Griffith's first film "The Adventures of Dollie" (1908), the first movie filmed in Hollywood, "In Old California" (1910), and the first interfaith romance "A Child of the Ghetto" (1910). He was the first American director to receive on screen credit (1910), the first screenwriter to work on retainer, and the first producer to be pictured in a film advertisement. S.E.V. Taylor created one of the first quadruple exposure visual effects shots in Monopol's "The Dead Secret" (1913) with Marion Leonard playing a dual role, and their 1913 production of Carmen contained 426 scenes.