Brooklyn-based director/producer who loves to make films and friends!
About
Taylor Sharp, 31, is an empathy-led producer/director whose documentary projects often originate at the intersection of music/sports and social impact. His first feature documentary “Hoops Africa: Ubuntu Matters” aired globally on NBA TV and now resides on NBC's Peacock. Taylor co-founded Blue Cup Productions, a film and television company that produces documentary and narrative works, and alongside his production partner Holland Randolph Gallagher he hopes to use film to weave important societal issues into engaging stories for the screen. Taylor is currently finishing up Hoop Portraits, a feature documentary that showcases a life in basketball, as well as Momma, a documentary about grief chronicling the life and loss of his mother. He also directed three seasons of The Break, an all-access documentary series for the NBA chronicling the journeys of three G League Players, narrated by Shaquille O'Neal.
Taylor was born and raised in Morganton, NC and lives in Brooklyn, NY. In high school, he co-founded Casting for Hope, a nonprofit that financially and emotionally assists women and families in North Carolina faced with a gynecological cancer, which has now raised over $2,000,000 since its inception. He also serves on the board of Hoops 4 Hope, a nonprofit in Zimbabwe and South Africa that uses basketball as a vehicle to teach life skills. It was storytelling for these nonprofits and an early love of cinema alongside his brothers that led him to pursue filmmaking.
