Tyler Rabinowitz is an LA-based writer-director-producer who most recently produced LAVENDER (dir. Matthew Puccini), which premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and was acquired by Fox Searchlight. Tyler is a 2019 Sundance Creative Producing Summit Fellow and is an alumnus of the Sundance Ignite Fellowship, the Jacob Burns Film Center’s Creative Culture Fellowship, and NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. In 2011, he was honored by President Barack Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan as a U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts. In addition to LAVENDER, Tyler's producing credits include THE MESS HE MADE (2017 SXSW, Short of the Week, 2017 Iris Prize Finalist) and music videos for popular recording artists (Joan Baez, Train, MAX). As a writer-director, Tyler's credits include HOW I GOT TO THE MOON BY SUBWAY (Vimeo Staff Pick, 2019 Outfest, 2019 Palm Springs Int'l ShortFest, 2018 Iris Prize Nominee) and ALIENTOLOGISTS, which was acquired by DUST and is the recipient of the National Board of Review’s 2018 Marion Carter Green Award. Across the short film and music video spaces, Tyler’s work has garnered over 60 million views to date. His work has screened at the TCL Chinese Theaters, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Currently, Tyler is developing his first feature-length film, YOU CANNOT ERASE ME. He hopes to continue bringing stories to the screen that capture the breadth of the queer experience and invite audiences to deepen their relationship to emotion, gender, and identity.