TAYO AMOS
Writer, Producer, Director
Before heading into filmmaking, Tayo was headed in a totally different direction. A first-generation Nigerian-American, she attended and graduated from Stanford University with a double major in Science, Technology, & Society and Spanish Literature. Her desire to tell stories that affect change led her to earn an M.F.A. from USC’s Film Production Program, where she also received the James Bridges Directing Scholarship. This rising talent was selected a 2019 Blackhouse Sundance Fellow, a 2014 Team Oscar member, and guest speaker at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Tayo is currently finishing-up edits on A Blossom In The Night, a new short film starring Junior Nyong’o. Then, she is set to direct the film, Till It Comes True, with Lex Scott Davis (Superfly, The First Purge); and after that plans to direct Elite, a script she also penned.