My name is Tyler Young, and I am a former morning news producer turned filmmaker born and raised in Greenville, SC. My stories weave fantastical elements into genre-blending narratives to explore fractured multi-generational bonds. I began my career in local news before transitioning into documentaries. Today, I write and direct short narrative films. 

I was selected for the 2026 Film at Lincoln Center Artists Academy. In the spring, I wrote and directed Porcelain Shadows, a Southern Gothic thriller, which will premiere in 2027. My second short film, Emergency Contact, is on the Kids Flicks Tour with the Oscar-qualifying New York International Children’s Film Festival.

My first short film, Dying Laughing, won the 2024 Black Harvest Film Festival Audience Award and the 2025 People’s Choice Award at Reedy Reels Film Festival. We screened at the Academy Award-qualifying Urbanworld Film Festival and closed the year as a 2025 BHERC All-Star, honored at the Black Hollywood Resource Center. 

I produced the 2024 NAACP Image Award-nominated short film presented by Queen Latifah’s Queen Collective program in partnership with Tribeca Studios and Procter & Gamble.

For the last four years, I served as a Budgets and Production Scoping Manager at Vox Media, working at the critical intersection of pre-sales and production alongside our creative strategy team. I developed project scopes and cost breakdowns for award-winning branded videos, social campaigns, and audio segments.

My film journey began in 2020 as an Associate Producer and researcher on the Emmy-nominated (Outstanding Historical Documentary), Peabody-nominated, and Telly award-winning documentary film, Downing of a Flag (PBS).

My credits include:

• Masters of the Game (Senior Producer + Director, TheGrio)

• Running While Black (Story Producer, VICE)

• Disrupt & Dismantle with Soledad O’Brien (Associate Producer, BET)

•  Phat Tuesdays (Associate Producer, Prime Video)

• Upcoming Netflix Documentary (Associate Producer)

Fun Fact: I got my start in unscripted television as a production assistant on one of the highest-rated episodes of Hoarders.

As a writer, I am a Project Involve writing alum at Film Independent. My first screenplay, Body Count, advanced into the 2022 quarterfinals of the Academy Nicholl Fellowship. I’m also a former TV series fellow at Gotham Film & Media Institute. I earned my B.A. in Mass Communication from Winthrop University. 

My faith walk began in 2015 at a news station in Charlotte, NC. One morning I stood in the dressing room and said, “God, I’m tired of crying and praying about this job. Is it time for me to leave?”. He replied, “I have something greater for you.” I went on-air for my social media segment, walked over to my desk, and typed up a 3-sentence resignation letter. I haven’t looked back.

Proverbs 3:5-6 is my guiding light. 

I spend my free time scanning newspaper archives, binging the original A Different World, and eagerly anticipating the moment I can blow my retirement funds on an NSYNC reunion show.