SHOWREEL
J.T. Taylor — Editing Reel
2021–2026
"The essence of cinema
is editing."
J.T. Taylor is a third-year film student at UNC School of the Arts in Winston-Salem with 8+ years of editing experience — building a practice rooted in emotional precision and the belief that every cut is a decision about what the audience feels next.
His work spans narrative short film, documentary, and commercial content, with experience across the full production pipeline: editor, sound designer, assistant editor, DIT, and post production supervisor. That breadth gives him a rare structural fluency — an understanding of how a film is built and where the edit can save or transform it.
The goal is always the same: disappear into the story.
"The edit is where a film finds its real rhythm — not in the script, not on set, but in the space between what was captured and what the story actually needs."— J.T. Taylor