Rahdi Taylor Executive Vice President, Concordia Studio

Rahdi Taylor designs and directs The Concordia Fellowship to catalyze transformative, career building opportunity for highly select, BIPOC + other diverse US documentary storytellers. She spent 10 years as Director of the Sundance Documentary Fund, awarding financing and creative support to documentary films globally including more than a dozen Academy Award nominees. She enjoys leading field-wide interventions, and designed and directed the Documentary Core Application. She also created the Doc Film Money Map, a tool to catalyze nonfiction filmmakers to use state film incentives for indie doc financing. Prior to Sundance, Taylor worked in film distribution at California Newsreel in San Francisco, and in artist/project development at Women Make Movies in New York.