Thanks to his Airbnb ‘Fort’ spot, Bartley earned selection as part of the New Directors Showcase for SHOOT magazine. On the narrative side, his short film, Hidden Valley Place, premiered at the historic TCL Chinese Theater during the Dances With Films festival in June 2022 and later again with HollyShorts in August 2022.

In 2021 Bartley Taylor was part of the Ventureland producing team that put on the inaugural season of Rising Voices – an initiative sponsored by Indeed and Lena Waithe’s Hillman Grad Productions that gave $1,000,000 to 10 BIPOC filmmakers to create their films about the power of work. All 10 films + a documentary about the process premiered at Tribeca. He re-teamed with Ventureland for Rising Voices season 2 this year which also premiered at Tribeca in June 2022.

Bartley produces and edits the props and film history podcast “The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of,” which television showrunners Ryan Condal (Game of Thrones prequel, House of The Dragon) and David Mandel (VEEP, Curb Your Enthusiasm) host, as part of his work outside of visuals.

Bartley currently lives in Los Angeles with his husband Jared and is counting the days until they get a golden retriever.