Ben Taylor
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Join Sophie Sulehria as she talks to Director Ben Taylor about his latest film, Joy.
Joy tells the remarkable true story behind the ground-breaking birth of Louise Joy Brown in 1978, the world’s first ‘test-tube- baby’, and the tireless 10-year journey to make it possible.
Told through the perspective of Jean Purdy, a young nurse and embryologist, who joined forces with scientist Robert Edwards and surgeon Patrick Steptoe to unlock the puzzle of infertility by pioneering in vitro fertilisation (IVF).
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Ben Taylor
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Ben has directed a long list of celebrated comedies and comedy dramas from the International Emmy winning hit series Sex Education, to the hugely popular and BAFTA winning Catastrophe, to the multi-award winning and BAFTA nominated Cardinal Burns.
Ben set up Catastrophe with writers and leads, Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney, and received a BAFTA nomination for Best Director. After directing three series of the Channel 4 comedy, Ben went on to work with Sharon again on HBO series Divorce, starring Sarah Jessica Parker.
Ben has since set up and directed the critically acclaimed and award winning Sex Education for Eleven and Netflix, starring Gillian Anderson and Asa Butterfield; and Year of the Rabbit for Objective Fiction, starring Matt Berry.
Ben has recently directed and executive-produced the 18th century adventure series Renegade Nell for Lookout Point and Disney+ written by Sally Wainwright. He is currently directing his debut feature film Joy with Wildgaze, Pathe and Netflix, about the pioneering scientists who worked on the discovery of IVF.
