- Grazka Taylor is an award-winning producer, philanthropist, and humanitarian. Taylor was an Executive Producer with Richard and Lili Zanuck on the HBO anthology, "The Decalogue."
Taylor started her career working alongside Ed Pressman at Warner Brothers. Later, during her tenure at Viacom Productions, she originated, developed, and was associate producer on numerous high-rated TV films. Taylor also developed numerous film projects for studios such as Fox Searchlight.
Taylor's passion for illuminating stories led her to produce several distinguished documentaries and feature films. Her work as Executive Producer for "Mediterranea" led to its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival and garnered numerous awards.
One of Taylor's seminal works was "The Burning Season," developed at Warner Brothers and based on the life story of Brazilian environmentalist Chico Mendes. "The Burning Season" was produced at HBO and nominated for thirty awards, garnering three Golden Globe Awards, two Emmy Awards, and two Ace Awards, in addition to Humanitas, Screen Actors Guild, and Imagen awards.
Recently, Taylor executive produced "Gaucho Gaucho," which won an award at Sundance this year.
Taylor is an art patron of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Serpentine, and The Sundance Institute. Taylor holds a Masters of Arts in Contemporary Literature and Theatre.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Publicist
- Taylor has been co-sponsoring His Holiness, the Dalai Lama teachings in California, as well as his Tibetan orphanage in Dharamsala. Taylor works effortlessly to bring compassion and peace to Tibet.
- She published a book, The Idea of The West, with internationally renowned artist, Doug Aitken to benefit MOCA.
- Taylor has worked with co-chairs Wolfgang Puck and Sherry Lansing for California Spirit and American Cancer Society, raising millions of dollars for cancer research.
- Grazka Taylor is an award-winning producer, philanthropist and humanitarian. She is in the Leadership and Advisor's Circle at The Sundance Institute. In 2014, she was was invited to the Sundance Institute Directors, Screenwriters Labs, and to the Sundance Institute's Catalyst Forum.
Contribute to this page
Suggest an edit or add missing content