Tyler Taormina

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Tyler Taormina
Born1990 [1]
OccupationsDirector, screenwriter, producer
Years active2015–present

Tyler Thomas Taormina (born 1990) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and musician. He has directed Ham on Rye (2019), Happer's Comet (2022) and Christmas Eve in Miller's Point (2024). Taormina is also a co-founder of the Los Angeles-based independent filmmaking collective Omnes Films. [2]

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Early life

Taormina was born and raised in the town of Smithtown on Long Island, New York. [3] As students at Emerson College in Boston, Taormina, Carson Lund and other cinephile friends began collaborating on short films as Omnes Films. [4] He graduated in 2013. [5] [6]

Career

Upon moving to Los Angeles, Taormina initially made television projects for kids including the webseries "Suburban Legends." [7]

In 2019, Taormina's debut feature Ham on Rye, premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, and screened at the Locarno Film Festival and Deauville American Film Festival later that summer. [8] [9] [10] It was released in October 2020 by Factory 25. [11]

In 2022, Taormina directed Happer's Comet which premiered in the Forum section at the Berlinale. [12] [13] [14] It was released in July 2023 by Factory 25. [15]

In 2024, Taormina directed Christmas Eve in Miller's Point starring Michael Cera, Francesca Scorsese, Matilda Fleming, Maria Dizzia, Elsie Fisher, and Sawyer Spielberg. [16] It had its world premiere at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival in the Directors' Fortnight section and was released on November 8, 2024 by IFC Films. [17] [18]

Taormina has also served as a producer on Eephus , [19] Los capítulos perdidos , [20] and No Sleep Till . [21]

As a musician, Taormina was a member of the band Adam & Naive before recording solo albums as Cloud. In 2018, Taormina released his final Cloud album, Plays with Fire, accompanied by The Desperation Club (a Cloud tribute album featuring 34 covers performed by Mines Falls, Samira Winter, Magana, Benjamin Shaw, Jack Hayter, Anthony Harding, and others.) [22] [23] [24]

Filmography

Feature film

YearTitleDirectorProducerWriter
2019 Ham on Rye YesYesYes
2021Topology of SirensNoYesNo
2022Happer's CometYesYesYes
2024 Christmas Eve in Miller's Point YesYesYes
2024 Eephus NoYesNo
2024 Los capítulos perdidos NoCo-ProducerNo
2024 No Sleep Till NoYesNo

Discography

Albums

References

  1. "Happer's Comet". Valladolid International Film Festival. Retrieved August 23, 2024.
  2. Macaulay, Scott (May 21, 2024). "We're Very Preoccupied with Making Personal Arthouse Features: With Two Films in Cannes, Carson Lund and Tyler Discuss Production Company, Omnes Films". Filmmaker Magazine . Retrieved December 9, 2025.
  3. Reistetter, Michael (December 3, 2024). "'Tis the Season! Smithtown-Made "Christmas Eve in Miller's Point" Now Available On Demand". South Shore Press . Retrieved December 9, 2025.
  4. O'Connor, Rory (May 30, 2024). "Director Tyler Taormina Is Bringing Sincerity Back to Indie Cinema". Interview . Retrieved August 23, 2024.
  5. "Omnes Films". Filmmaker . October 11, 2021. Retrieved August 23, 2024.
  6. Cronk, Jordan (June 4, 2024). "America Lost and Found: Carson Lund and Tyler Taormina in Conversation". Mubi . Retrieved August 23, 2024.
  7. Wise, Damon (May 15, 2024). "Omnes Films: A New American Film Collective Lands In Cannes With A Directors' Fortnight Double Whammy — Ones To Watch". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved August 23, 2024.
  8. Lund, Carson (February 5, 2019). "Over 100 Cast Members and No Permits: How I Shot Ham on Rye in Los Angeles". Filmmaker. Retrieved August 23, 2024.
  9. Hammond, Caleb (January 31, 2020). "Locarno in Los Angeles: Ham on Rye Director Tyler Taormina Organized a Middle School Clothing Drive for Wardrobe". MovieMaker . Retrieved August 23, 2024.
  10. Reeser, Jeffrey (June 23, 2020). "Directing How this Experimental Narrative Feature Was Shot on a Micro Budget". No Film School . Retrieved August 23, 2024.
  11. "Ham on Rye". Factory 25 . Retrieved August 23, 2024.
  12. "Happer's Comet". Berlin International Film Festival . Retrieved August 23, 2024.
  13. Hammond, Caleb (January 31, 2023). "Tyler Taormina's Happer's Comet Features His Hometown Community Playing Versions of Themselves". Moviemaker. Retrieved August 23, 2024.
  14. Hughes, Darren (March 22, 2022). "Berlinale 2022 Critic's Notebook: Queens of the Qing Dynasty, Dry Ground Burning, Rewind and Play, Camouflage, Happer's Comet, The Middle Ages". Filmmaker. Retrieved August 23, 2024.
  15. Brodsky, Samuel (June 16, 2023). "Affection and Sadness in Suburbia: Tyler Taormina on Happer's Comet". Screen Slate . Retrieved August 23, 2024.
  16. Grobar, Matt (June 15, 2023). "Michael Cera, Elsie Fisher, Maria Dizzia, Francesca Scorsese & More Set For Tyler Taormina's Comedy 'Christmas Eve In Miller's Point'". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved August 23, 2024.
  17. "Christmas Eve in Miller's Point". Directors' Fortnight . Retrieved August 23, 2024.
  18. Lang, Brent (June 13, 2024). "IFC Films Buys Michael Cera, Matilda Fleming Dramedy 'Christmas Eve in Miller's Point' Following Cannes Debut (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety . Retrieved August 23, 2024.
  19. Barraclough, Leo (August 7, 2024). "Music Box Acquires Cannes Directors' Fortnight Baseball Comedy 'Eephus' by Carson Lund (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved August 23, 2024.
  20. "Los Capítulos Perdidos". Locarno Film Festival . Retrieved August 23, 2024.
  21. Vivarelli, Nick (July 22, 2024). "Venice Critics' Week Unveils Lineup, Including 'Homegrown' Doc About Group of Supremacist Donald Trump Supporters". Variety . Retrieved August 23, 2024.
  22. Doyle, Jon (March 27, 2024). "You Got Shit to Do: a Magana Retrospective By Audio Antihero Records".
  23. "The Desperation Club - A Cloud Tribute Compilation, by Various Artists". Cloud.
  24. "Muso's Guide - A Cloud Tribute Compilation". musosguide.co.uk.