Originally from an Italian-American family from Long Island (NY), Tyler Thomas Taormina is a young filmmaker who already has three feature films under his belt, all widely acclaimed at such festivals as Cannes, Berlin and Locarno. His genuinely innovative work is mainly inspired by autobiographical sources and depends on the active collaboration of his family, both in front and behind the camera. Taormina achieved widespread recognition in 2019 with Ham on Rye, a surreal and languid chronicle of the passage from childhood to adolescence in a small suburban city. His next work, Happer’s Comet (2022), which was filmed entirely at night, with a skeleton crew, during the 2020 confinement, confirmed his place as an emerging talent, which he had earned with his debut film. With Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point (2024), Tyler makes a dazzling, delicious and unexpected entrance into the sub-genre of Christmas movies. The director invokes his memories of large family reunions and traditions which were conserved throughout decades. This film, which was shown at the Un Certain Regard sectionof the Cannes Film festival, puts Tyler Taormina on another level; the film appears on several best of the year lists of a number of publications, among them The New Yorker and Cahiers du Cinéma. In addition to director, Tyler is also a screenwriter, producer and composer. He is also a co-founder, with some friends, of the film production collective Omnes Films. As producer, he is also behind the success of such films as Eephus, No Sleep Till and Topology of Sirens, all shown at the most prestigious international festivals, and all well received by the critics.