Biography

Taryn Gould is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and editor based in Brooklyn, NY. After Graduating from Syracuse University's Newhouse School, she began her career on the road documenting artists like Lil Mama and The Roots, and filming for Atlantic records.

Her work has been shortlisted for an Academy Award, and nominated for a Best Music Film Grammy, an Outstanding Documentary Emmy, and a Critics Choice Award. It has screened at Sundance, Berlin, Tribeca, SXSW, Hot Docs, SIFF, IDFA, CPH: DOX, Locarno, MoMA, The Met, and The National Gallery of Art. It has played theatrically across the world from Korea to the UK and had multiple runs at New York's Film Forum. Her work has been featured by the New York Times and Variety, who called it "movingly intense", "essential", and "tantalizing." Various projects are streaming on Netflix, Amazon, and HBO.

Her documentaries include All I Can Say (2021, co-director, editor, producer), Nam June Paik: Moon is the Oldest TV (2023, editor), Tina (2021, editor), Ram Dass, Going Home (2017, editor, co-producer), Narcissister Organ Player (2018, producer, editor), Susanne Bartsch: On Top (2016, editor, co-producer), and Let's Play Two: Pearl Jam Live at Wrigley Field (2017, editor, co-writer).

Her most recent project, that she is co-directing and editing with Chris Hegedus, is about the legendary filmmaker DA Pennebaker. The film will use the enormous Pennebaker/Hegedus archive, containing some of the most iconic images of the 20th century, to tell Pennebaker's story as well as the cultural, political, and technological story of America over the last 70 years. That project is in development.
- IMDb mini biography by: Taryn Gould