Henna Taylor is a self-taught documentary filmmaker. She began making short videos of her time living with four rural midwives in Cambodia. Over the next decade, her nonlinear relationship with filmmaking grew exponentially. She has since written, directed, filmed, edited, and produced six award-winning short documentary films, including “Best Mountain Short Film” at BANFF. Her first, highly anticipated, feature length documentary, An Accidental Life, debuted in 2022.

At this event, Henna will show Speak To Me Softly (6 mins) and then A Thousand Ways To Kiss The Ground (22 mins). These films are available to view for free online and Henna will do a Q & A for each film. At the end, she'll show the trailer for An Accidental Life, her first feature-length film and will share what she is working on next.

Henna’s work is emotionally deep and wide, and in its best moments, achieves that much sought-after emotional catharsis central to the tradition of storytelling and theater. Henna builds the stories she tells by staying present for the absurd, imperfect, painful, hilarious, and terribly vulnerable states of the human experience. Her compassion and relationship with her subjects come clearly and poignantly through the lens she shares with the audience what she sees.