Tina Denise Taylor was born the youngest of 10 children in Birmingham, Alabama. She discovered her love for cinema at the age of 9 when her father bought her a movie projector that came with one cartoon short. She tacked a white sheet on her bedroom wall and charged her friends 25 cents admission to watch the movie. Shortly afterwards, she developed a love for writing and eventually directing motion pictures. At Georgia State University she interned for various film production companies where she learned a grass-root approach to filmmaking. To date she has written, directed and produced five short films.