Director

Tara Sheffer

Production

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Beginning to build directing work.

TMDB popularity

0.4

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Directed movies: 1Directed series: 0All crew credits: 15

TMDB ID: 3043974

IMDb ID: nm3912727

Known for: Production

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 2020 - 2026

Years active: 7

Average TMDB rating: 7.04

Frequent jobs

Director (1)Producer (9)Executive Producer (2)Associate Producer (1)Line Producer (1)Production Coordinator (1)

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Biography

Tara Sheffer is an award-winning filmmaker from Arkansas with an MFA in filmmaking from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. She has produced over twenty-five short films including TRAPPED (SXSW Official Selection and Jury Award Winner), FLOUNDER (Clermont Ferrand Official Selection and Vimeo Staff Pick), and PLAISIR (SXSW Official Selection and Searchlight Short), and she line-produced THE LETTER ROOM (nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film). Tara’s directorial work includes MY DEAR GOD (New Orleans Film Festival and winner of the Sara Driver Award) and SCRATCH-OFF (NYU Tisch King Award finalist and winner of the NYU Tisch King Screenwriting Award). Her previous positions include coordinator at the Department of Motion Pictures and assistant to Scott Rudin. Tara is a 2024 The Gotham/Rotterdam Producing fellow and the 2021 recipient of the Robert Oberman/Gregory Pickert Media Services award for excellence in creative producing at NYU.

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