Taylor Olson

Three isolated men submit to rituals of healing—an AI cleanse, a live stream of penance, and an experimental drug trial—each descending into madness as their pain becomes performance in a world obsessed with watching.

While shooting a film in a small town, a famous actor puts his personal life and career in jeopardy by starting an intense affair with another man.

The most beautiful man in the world, who, sick of being objectified, devises a plan to free himself of other's attention.

When Chris Watts stoically yet smirkingly pleaded to television cameras for the safe return of his missing pregnant wife Shanann and their two young daughters, dark secrets loomed just beneath the surface.

Everyday in Halifax, a ceremonial blast fires from a canon. The Noon Gun sends a rattle through the old wooden homes of the North End. Within one of these homes, an elderly woman dotes over her graffiti writer grandson. An interracial couple walk tensely down a side street. A recovering alcoholic cop lectures his street-wizened young partner as they walk the beat. On one day in particular, the Noon Gun blast ties these groups into a sequence of events. As these events unfold, each group’s perspective grows, obscuring reality and ultimately effecting each other’s lives.

Dawn returns home to Nova Scotia to mourn the death of her mother and repair the estrangement with her father, John Andrew. An ancient tractor becomes the focus for the mechanically-minded Dawn, but her father’s long-simmering resentments heighten tensions. Watching his daughter work to restore the tractor, he realises that reclaiming this relationship depends on his own coming out: supporting Dawn publicly and fighting malicious small-town transphobia.

A black police officer is pushed to the edge, taking out his frustrations on the privileged community he's sworn to protect.

A college student unwittingly releases terrifying entities from her school's past via a Halloween-themed computer meme.

The Death of Winter: In 1830s Newfoundland, a woman is on trial for the murder of her husband. While innocent of the homicide, she is hanged for having an affair.

A fictional autobiography about an insecure, awkward and lonely actor who goes on an unwitting journey of self-love in the midst of an eating disorder relapse.

Bob Tearman (Bob Mann) is 42 with a bullet. No wife, no kids. Zero accomplishments. His life has not turned out the way he thought it would. So much so, that's he's seriously wondering if he should even carry on living. And then one morning, through some kind of magic he doesn't understand, he finds the 12 year-old version of himself, Bobby (Jordan Poole) asleep in his apartment. When Bobby sees how badly their life has turned out he is determined to put things right. His plan to do this involves going after the bullies from junior high, now adults like Bob, and...wait for it...killing them. As things spiral out of control, Bob has his hands full, first with Bobby's crazy dreams of revenge and later the bullies themselves when the dreams become reality. At that point, to quote Bad Boys 2, the **** gets real.

A feminist Nova Scotian monster movie.

A passionate swim coach and dedicated father navigates the turbulent reality of invisible homelessness when he is forced to live out of his van.

Jamie (Taylor Olson) works a wood processor, clear-cutting for pulp in small-town Nova Scotia. At the end of each shift, he walks through the destruction he has created looking for injured animals and rescues those he can. Adapted from a play by Nova Scotian author Catherine Banks, Bone Cage is an impressive first feature from Halifax actor/filmmaker Taylor Olson that sensitively excavates the tragedy of how young people in rural communities, employed in the destruction of their environment, treat the people they love at the end of their shift.

Your Money or Your Wife is a sidesplitting comedy that follows the story of Lionel, your everyday average “Man of Inaction”. When, one night out of the blue, his girlfriend dumps him, the normally cautious Lionel goes drinking and ends up the victim of mistaken identity. This leads to his participation, as an unwilling robber, in an incompetent home invasion where he meets and falls for the homeowner, Annie… Featuring hilarious performances from Craig Brown (Everyone’s Famous), Meredith MacNeill (This Hour Has 22 Minutes), Brian MacQuarrie (Picnicface) and an amazing supporting cast, Your Money or Your Wife is sure to take you hostage.... with laughs!

A group of childhood friends, now in their twenties, reunite and explore their experiences over the years.

Tensions rise as a young girl (Polly Gallant-MacLean) creeps through the stillness and shadows of her home. Certain that she has discovered a monster under her bed, she seeks her father's help.

Joe and Megan have to work through a rejection before they can move on to breakfast.

Ariyah, an ambitious young animator, reluctantly gets involved with a club photographer, Tristan. The film follows the couple as they struggle through the ups and downs of a modern romance and an unplanned pregnancy.

This story follows the life of Amber a transgender teen that is trying to become her true self while dealing with the pressure of society.

WOLF is a short narrative film that explores feelings of isolation in new motherhood. It follows a new mother, Kate, desperately trying to survive the early months of breastfeeding and finding her parenting feet, while also being a friend, a partner, a daughter, and ultimately - a new version of herself. Fragmented storytelling expresses the jagged edges and soft places that exist in total juxtaposition every day.

Two single-parent divorcees try their hand at getting married - again. They have no idea how wrong they're doing it.

Unravel the mystery of a nightmarish town in middle America that traps all those who enter. As the unwilling residents fight to keep a sense of normalcy and search for a way out, they must also survive the threats of the surrounding forest – including the terrifying creatures that come out when the sun goes down.

FBI agent Audrey Parker arrives in the small town of Haven, Maine to solve a murder and soon discovers the town's many secrets—which also hold the key to unlocking the mysteries of her lost past.

In a small New York town, a haunted detective hunts for answers about perplexing crimes while wrestling with his own demons.

Follow Marcie Diggs, a star corporate lawyer who reconsiders her priorities after her beloved aunt commits suicide following a malicious prosecution.

Follows the lives of a social worker, a victims' advocate and four others who provide support to victims of violence.

Three roommates who can’t make rent would rather get high than work menial jobs. So they set out to find sugar daddies to pay their bills.

When Aston finds himself left to his own devices with bills to pay while his boyfriend is in New York, he turns to camming to make ends meet.