Jennifer Maytorena Taylor’s films explore diverse stories like gentrification battles, spontaneous dance celebrations, Latin American Dirty Wars, Puerto Rican American Muslim hip-hop culture, families coping with extreme sentencing laws – and most recently, rural life in an era of refugee crises, the opioid epidemic and White rage. Features include For the Love of Rutland, New Muslim Cool, Daisy and Max, and Paulina. Shorts include Visiting Day, Redneck Muslim, and the upcoming The Next Message. Jennifer’s work has shown at venues such as Sundance, Camden, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Locarno Film Festivals, Hot Docs, IDFA, DOC NYC, NYMOMA, Sundance Channel, Al Jazeera, NHK-Japan, and frequently on PBS. She has held fellowships at Banff Centre for the Arts, USC Annenberg School for Journalism, Points North, MacDowell Colony, and Sundance Documentary Institute. She is a professor and the current director of the Social Documentation MFA program at University of California, Santa Cruz.