Tamara Mariam Dawit is an Ethiopian-Canadian award-winning filmmaker and arts industry executive. She has experience producing arts content and campaigns for organizations, including Save the Children, Girl Effect, Keep a Child Alive, and Make Poverty History. She has a long history of managing training labs and export missions and has advised on programs and policies to support the screen sector for DW Akademie, UNESCO, Afreximbank, EUNIC, Canada Media Fund and the Ethiopian government.
Tamara is an alumnus of the Berlinale and Durban Talents and has been awarded fellowships by Docs in Progress, Logan Nonfiction and TIFF. Her film Finding Sally won the Doc Institute Vanguard Award, Adiaha Award and the Gordon Parks Award, among others. Tamara, a 2023 Chalmer Arts Fellow, is producing a slate of Ethiopian films.
Tamara Mariam Dawit
