Visual Storyteller - Screenwriter
RANDY TAYLOR
 First Responders Arrive At Ground Zero on 9/11
Having accumulated enough life experience, Randy can tell an engaging story, laced with fictionalized versions of his personal experiences and observations. Evolving from splicing together Super 8 movies as a child, Randy’s first career began at age 21 at the Associated Press in Paris, France. Within a year, he was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for photos of a shootout on the streets of Paris that left two dead and four wounded - images that jump started a trajectory in photojournalism that took him to 50+ countries, taught him four languages, and enabled him to observe and photograph hundreds of world leaders, celebrities, and major events, from the Ayatollah Khomeini to the Pope, from President Reagan to Princess Di, from the Moscow Olympics to the Argentine World Cup, from the revolution in Iran to battles between Communism and Fascism in Honduras, El Salvador, and Nicaragua. Randy has photographed countless events that became movies, such as of murderer Gary Gilmore (“The Executioner’s Song”) and 9/11 (“Fahrenheit 9/11”).
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Trading his cameras for computers, Randy shifted to the world of business, becoming a VP at Getty Images and the founder of five companies: International News Service, International Color Stock, Stock Media, StockPhotoFinder, and Copyright Defense League.
In the 1990’s, Randy launched Movie Snapshot, a quick-read, graphics-rich review that introduced descriptive keywords, icons, and formatting that are now standard in online film menus. In that era of dial up modems, Movie Snapshot had 3 million weekly readers in print and 150,000 unique visitors monthly on the web. The mandate for his network of reviewers was to identify the target audience of the movie and say how they’d like it.  Shootout at the Iraqi Embassy in Paris
One highlight of Randy’s illustrious career was attending the 1992 Film Festival in Palm Springs where his parents lived, where he listened to Mayor Sonny Bono sing “I Got You Babe” at a buffet in his living room, and chatted about filmmaking with Allan Bates, Miranda Richardson (“Enchanted April”), and Jimmy Stewart who was honored with The Desert Palm Achievement Award. Randy defines himself as a lifelong visual communicator.
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