Kyle Taubken is a writer and director from Memphis, TN.
His narrative work has screened at festivals around the world including IFFBoston, Maryland Film Festival, Nashville Film Festival, and Portland Film Festival and has won awards at festivals including Indie Memphis Film Festival and Oxford Film Festival. He enjoys teaching and leading workshops and has done so for organizations including Sidewalk Film Center and Indie Memphis.
His work has been featured on Billboard, NPR, Rolling Stone, HuffPost, and The Daily Memphian.
Kyle is currently developing his first feature, the screenplay for which was selected for the 2022 Stowe Story Labs, has been a finalist in contests including Sidewalk Film Festival’s 2020 Sidewrite Screenplay Competition, was named a Second Rounder in the 2019 Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition, and scored in the top 10% of the 2019 AMPAS Nicholl Fellowship.
Kyle loves to travel and often makes travelogues when he does. You can see them here if you’d like.
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Photo Credit: Andrew Puccio
Kyle is also a freelance videographer, director, and editor with clients spanning the Mid-South and beyond. Please visit taubkenfilmandvideo.com to learn more.