Taylor Harrington

Taylor Harrington (born July 31, 1983, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa) is an American director, film producer and visual effects artist. He is a co-founder of iam8bit, a production company, marketing boutique and artist collective in Los Angeles, California, along with Jon M. Gibson, Amanda White and Nick Ahrens. Since then he has co-founded a new company "The Malt Shop" in Los Angeles, California.

While still in college, he got his start while being approached to direct and star in a commercial campaign for multiple banks in the Midwest. He won best in show for the direction and conceptualization of the viral portion of the project at advertising conference in the midwest. After graduation, he moved to Los Angeles and co-founded iam8bit and built out the production capabilities of the company. While working in and around production since then he has expanded his career further into production with his new company "The Malt Shop". Between companies, Harrington produced, directed and created multiple web series, commercials and features with Yaniv Futtci and Kevin Pereira and Chad Schultz at SuperCreative and The Malt Shop.

While attending the University of Wisconsin he studied Film and Sociology. After living in Los Angeles, he started lecturing at the University of Southern California. and has since become an adjunct professor in multimedia content creation.

He moved to Los Angeles in September 2008, and began producing for iam8bit in 2009, where he co-found the film and production side of the collective, with projects including Capcom's Mega Man Universe. and short film My Barista. He is a self-taught editor and visual effects artist. While at Super Creative. Harrington co-directed and produced two seasons of "Line By Line" a web-series for Russell Simmons All Def Digital starring Wiz Kalifa, 2-Chainz, Riff Raff and E-40. Harrington also co-directed and produced a pilot for Young & Reckless "What Had Happened Was" starring Nick Swardson, Asap Ferg and Dennis Rodman. After co-producing Mother Brother with Chad Schultz and winning best dramatic short at the Arizona International Film Festival the two lunched The Malt Shop in 2014. The Malt Shop has produced a number features "I Was a Teenage Wareskunk" and "I Hate The Man in my Basement". Harrington co-wrote and directed a campaign commercial for a company technology company Peri launching its Flagship product "The Duo" in 2015.

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