Tayler Montague ’19

EOP Alum and former Communications Major, Tayler Montague ’19, has been named one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film by Filmmaker Magazine!

Tayler Montague’s debut short film, In Sudden Darkness, about a young working-class family in the Bronx navigating the Northeast blackout of 2003, is a portrait of profound love and joy.

While she was at Purchase, Tayler was accepted into the NYFF55 Critics Academy. She went on to write for publications like Film Comment, Little White Lies, NYLON and Pitchfork; did curatorial work for The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and MoMA; and programmed for BAM and Alamo Drafthouse

In Sudden Darkness came to Montague like a spark after graduating last year. At 23, fresh out of college and with a short film that’s played both Toronto and the New York Film Festival, Montague faces a future that is wide open, and she doesn’t want to narrow down the possibilities.

Read more about Tayler and her inspiration for the film, In Sudden Darkness here!