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Tamara Shogaolu
Directing
Tamara Shogaolu is an Emmy® Award-winning, Peabody-nominated director, writer, and artist whose work merges cinematic storytelling with bold experimentation. Hailed by Forbes, The Guardian, and Vogue as a visionary voice in film and emerging media, she crafts stories that are intimate, subversive, and deeply human. Her projects have received top honors at the Sundance Film Festival (2023), SXSW (2022), and the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA, 2021 & 2023)—one of the world’s leading festivals for documentary and immersive storytelling. Her work has also been supported by the Sundance Institute and has screened at MoMA, Tribeca, and leading institutions around the world. A Fulbright Scholar, Luce Fellow, semifinalist for the Academy Nicholl Fellowship, and graduate of the USC School of Cinematic Arts—where she was a Burton Lewis Endowed Scholar for Directing—Shoga…
