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Tamara Mariam Dawit

Tamara Mariam Dawit

BALANCING COPRODUCTIONS

EAVE in Demand Sami Producers Lab 2024
EAVE PRODUCERS WORKSHOP 2024

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Company Gobez Media / Gobez Media Inc.
Website www.gobez.ca

Biography

Tamara Dawit is an Ethiopian-Canadian filmmaker and Head of Studies for the Access BIPOC Producers Program in Canada. She is an alumna of prestigious programs like Doha Film Institute, Berlinale Talents, Durban Talents, Rotterdam Lab, EAVE, and APostLab. Tamara runs Gobez Media, producing films such as “FORGOTTEN CHILDREN” (2007), “GIRLS OF LATITUDE” (2008), “GRANDMA KNOWS BEST” (2014), “FINDING SALLY” (2020), and “MADE IN ETHIOPIA” (2024). She has received several accolades, including the Doc Institute Vanguard Award and the Gordon Parks Award for Black Excellence in Filmmaking. Tamara is also a 2023 Chalmers Arts Fellow and a 2024 MacDowell Fellow.

Donate to the EAVE Alan Fountain International Scholarship Fund

A scholarship has been set up to honour the memory of Alan Fountain, former Head of Studies and President of EAVE, who passed away in 2016. Its goal is to enable one producer from outside the EU to participate in all three sessions of the EAVE Producers Workshop each year.

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