Ramona Taylor

Ramona Leigh Taylor was born on a farm in rural Georgia, is a graduate of Duke University and the University of Richmond's T.C. Williams School of Law. She has lived in Virginia since 1985. Taylor had worked as a principal and founder of Shockoe Productions, and now helms Caring Field Films. Taylor began screenwriting as a hobby in 1996. Since that time, she has become a published writer, screenwriter and award winning filmmaker. She has been recognized for some of her earlier scripts through various writing competitions, including Scriptapalooza, aTalent, Oshun, and Write-Safe. In 2008, the micro- budget horror film, Camp DOA, she penned for Birmingham-based Magic City Films, screened at the Pan African Film Festival. That same year, her script, Respite, was a finalist in the Virginia Governor's Screenwriting Competition. In 2018, her screenplay, Blind Justice, was one of the winners in the Virginia Governor's Screenwriting Competition. Since 2013, her short films Bruehm's Closet, Relativity Redux, The Inevitable, Looking Up and Days of Togetherness have been won awards or been official selections in national film festivals, including One-Reeler Short Film Competition, the Charlotte Black Film Festival, the Soul Image Film Festival, the Waynesboro Short Film Showcase, San Diego Black Film Festival, and the North Carolina Black Film Festival. Her PSA My River Bridge was the first place Professional Division Winner in the 2009 Streaming the James Video competition Her educational short, Are Bacteria Good for Us? was a finalist in the ProjectED video competition in 2014. . Her educational shorts, B-STEM Court: The Case for Dr. Bath and B-STEM News were 2016 finalist and 2017 winner, respectively in Women In Technology International's B-STEM Project video competition. In 2017, Taylor also won a Bronze Telly for her work on Mount Carmel Morning, a weekly religious program and, in 2019, won a Silver Telly for an International Men's Day tribute. While not formally trained, Taylor has also served as crew number of projects, including ABC/Disney/Amazon's TV Pilot Point Of Honor, Stalwart Films' TURN, Shooting Creek Films' feature The House Of Good And Evil, Stephen Films' feature Inexplicable Epiphanies, Midvale Movies' You Follow Me Like The Moon, and Freewalker Films' A Dawg's Tale.