Tamara Mariam Dawit
She/Her
Tamara Mariam Dawit
Black, African American, or African
Straight (Heterosexual)
Cis
Affiliations
Links to Work
www.gobez.ca
Bio
Tamara Dawit, an Ethiopian-Canadian filmmaker, has produced films such as Girls of Latitude (2008), Grandma Knows
Best (2014), Finding Sally(2020, Gothenburg/Hot Docs), Alazar (2024, Cannes/TIFF), and Made in Ethiopia (2024, Tribeca/Sheffield) through her company, Gobez Media. She is currently producing a variety of dramatic and documentary projects. In 2021, Tamara was a TIFF Producer Fellow and won the Doc Institute Vanguard and Gordon Parks Awards for Black Excellence in Filmmaking. She is also a Chalmers Arts Fellow (2023) and a MacDowell Fellow (2024).
Tamara serves as Head of Studies for EAVE’s programs with the National Screen Institute and the International Sami Film Institute. She also mentors filmmakers through Hot Docs, the Doc Institute, the Toronto Arts Foundation, and Documentary Africa.
Projects
Made in Ethiopia
When a massive Chinese factory complex attempts a high-stakes expansion in rural Ethiopia,
three women in search of prosperity have their faith in industrialization tested to the limit.
Finding Sally
A personal investigation into the mysterious life of the director's Aunt Sally, an Ethiopian aristocrat-turned-communist-rebel who disappeared after the revolution that lead to the overthrow of Emperor Haile Selassie.