Known for Sound
Dara Taylor (born March 30, 1987) is an American composer for film and television scores. An HMMA-nominated composer, she has composed music for a number of Independent films, including thrillers, dramas, and comedies. She has contributed additional music to ABC's Agent Carter, Galavant, and Lifetime’s Child Genius, arranging and scoring production for studio productions like Bad Moms, Baywatch, Smurfs: The Lost Village, and Sausage Party. In 2015, she was nominated for a Hollywood Music in Media Award for her score for the Together Magic film Undetectable. In 2016, she was one of the composers asked to participate in Women in Film’s Women Composers in Media concert. Description above from the Wikipedia article, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born
March 30, 1987 (age 39)
Birthplace
Poughkeepsie, New York, USA
Filmography
56 films, 16 shows
showing 29 of 30 films


The Dink
2026 · 1h 43m · US
Desperate to save a struggling country club and earn his father's respect, a washed-up tennis pro is compelled to break a sacred vow and do the unthinkable: play pickleball.


Joe's College Road Trip
2026 · 1h 49m · US
To teach his sheltered grandson about the real world, Madea's foul-mouthed brother Joe takes the college-bound teen on a raucous cross-country road trip.


Relationship Goals
2026 · 1h 36m · US
When TV producer Leah Caldwell aims to become the first woman running New York's top morning show, her ex competes for the same role. Leah stays focused on her career, until chemistry with her ex challenges her priorities.


STRAW
2025 · 1h 45m · US
What will be her last straw? A devastatingly bad day pushes a hardworking single mother to the breaking point — and into a shocking act of desperation.


Meet Me Next Christmas
2024 · 1h 45m · US
On a quest to reconnect with the man of her dreams, Layla races across New York City to find a ticket to a sold-out Pentatonix Christmas Eve concert.


Power of the Dream
2024 · 1h 33m · US
The empowering and unlikely true story of how a group of professional women's basketball players took on a WNBA team owner and rallied behind now-Senator Raphael Warnock, forever changing the landscape of their sport and the course of U.S. politics.


Strays
2023 · 1h 33m · US
When Reggie is abandoned on the mean city streets by his lowlife owner, Doug, Reggie is certain that his beloved owner would never leave him on purpose. But once Reggie falls in with Bug, a fast-talking, foul-mouthed stray who loves his freedom and believes that owners are for suckers, Reggie finally realizes he was in a toxic relationship and begins to see Doug for the heartless sleazeball that he is.


Black Barbie
2023 · 1h 35m · US
Discover the untold story of the first Black Barbie and the pivotal role three trailblazing women at Mattel had in creating a doll who looked like them.


The Noel Diary
2022 · 1h 39m · CA
Cleaning out his childhood home at Christmas, a novelist meets a woman searching for her birth mother. Will an old diary unlock their pasts — and hearts?


The Invitation
2022 · 1h 45m · US
After the death of her mother, Evie is approached by an unknown cousin who invites her to a lavish wedding in the English countryside. Soon, she realizes a gothic conspiracy is afoot and must fight for survival as she uncovers twisted secrets in her family’s history.


For Gunter’s Eyes Only
2022 · 3m
Johnny and Gunter attend a hypnotist show in Redshore City where Gunter is hypnotized and believes he is a 007-type spy.


The Tender Bar
2021 · 1h 44m · US
JR is a fatherless boy growing up in the glow of a bar where the bartender, his Uncle Charlie, is the sharpest and most colorful of an assortment of quirky and demonstrative father figures. As the boy’s determined mother struggles to provide her son with opportunities denied to her — and leave the dilapidated home of her outrageous if begrudgingly supportive father — JR begins to gamely, if not always gracefully, pursue his romantic and professional dreams, with one foot persistently placed in Uncle Charlie’s bar.


American Refugee
2021 · 1h 35m · US
A story of a family seeking shelter in a neighbor’s bunker while the American economy is in collapse and the nation under martial law. There they find the danger inside is potentially greater than the danger outside.


Holiday in Santa Fe
2021 · 1h 28m · US
Sparks fly when a greeting card executive arrives in Santa Fe to acquire a tight-knit family company that creates ornaments inspired by Mexican Christmas traditions.
Family Time
Family Time
2021 · 13m · ZA
A career woman with a family wonders what she must give up to have it all.


The 90 Day Plan
2021 · 9m · US
When high school senior Lolo discovers that her grandma is being evicted by gentrifying developers, she convinces her best friend, Vashundhra, to help with a bank heist before graduation.


Curious George: Cape Ahoy
2021 · 1h 29m · US
With help from a local fisherman, his niece and an adorable baby seal, George embarks on a quest in search of the long-lost shipwreck of legendary sea captain Trumpet Tooter.


Binti
2021 · 1h 39m · TZ
Four Tanzanian women are unknowingly connected through their ability to persevere extreme hardships in the city of Dar-es-Salaam.


Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar
2021 · 1h 47m · US
The story of best friends Barb and Star, who leave their small midwestern town for the first time to go on vacation in Vista Del Mar, Florida, where they soon find themselves tangled up in adventure, love, and a villain’s evil plot to kill everyone in town.


Echo Boomers
2020 · 1h 34m · US
Five post grads figure the best way to get back at the unfair economy and live the life they've always wanted is to steal from the rich and give to themselves.


Turner Risk
2020 · 1h 52m
A topical yet timeless story about the parallel impacts of both bullying and friendship, Turner Risk focuses on a troubled young man who sets out to effectively reboot his world by clearing out all the negative forces in it.


Mino: A Diasporic Myth
2020 · 18m
In the utopic haven of Biamara, a Coven of Black women who can conceive without men must consider denouncing one of their own when she chooses to defy the all female code and self produce a male child.
My Dad, Stephanie
My Dad, Stephanie
2019 · 37m
In 2013, before most people understood what it meant to be transgender, there was 71-year-old Phil, just a regular dad who finally told family and friends that she is Stephanie, a secret she had kept hidden all of her life. Filmed by her daughter and son-in-law over the next five years, My Dad, Stephanie is an intimate documentary capturing the triumph, heartache and humor of Stephanies transition from living as a man to living full-time as a woman.


Colewell
2019 · 1h 19m · US
In tiny Colewell, Pennsylvania, the residents gather at the post office for mail and gossip, while the days pass quiet and serene. That is until news comes that the office is to close, and beloved clerk Nora is left to fight for her job and reflect on the choices she has made that kept her in Colewell for so many years.


Are You from Dixie?
2019 · 1h 8m
In this drama about race and social justice set in Louisiana, two brothers fight the racism and controversy caused by their involvement in a Confederate monument removal.


Boxed
2019 · 6m · US
The terrifying daring escape of Henry "Box" Brown, who used creativity and courage to escape from slavery in 1849.


Adamantine
2017 · 9m
In this fairytale set in rural Uzbekistan, a young shepherd longs to find his true love; but an evil mountain witch might stand in the way of his happily-ever-after.


Reel Nightmare
2017 · 1h 18m
Three beautiful, vengeful witches awakened by an ancient book, the Necronomicon, bring production of a film in their old family home to a deadly halt.


Undetectable
2015 · 16m · US
A gay man living with HIV must confront the guilt tormenting him after betraying and infecting his terminal ex-lover.