Heather Taylor
Cereal Made Co-founder
New York, New York
Heather Taylor is a writer/director of shorts, series, and features. She was a 2018/19 resident of the Bell Media Prime Time TV program at the Canadian Film Centre (sponsored by ABC Signature Studios), and was part of the 2019 Corus Writer’s Apprentice Program where she interned in The Hardy Boys writer's room. She's currently a semi-finalist in the Austin Film Festival 2019 script competition.
Heather graduated with a Masters in Screenwriting from City University, London. She’s an idea machine, the Indiana Jones of research, and builds supernatural worlds with real world consequences. Tech/ advertising/ procedural/ sci-fi savvy, and former employee of The Economist, BBC, and Ogilvy. Her career highlights include her first feature film, The Last Thakur, which premiered at the London International Film Festival; her sci-fi web series, Raptured; and Stitched, her award-winning horror short.
Her proudest moment came after the London riots, when she amassed over 500 people in South London to clean their streets. This group, branded the Broom Army, hit front papers around the world and Heather was awarded a Local Heroes award for her efforts.