Tamara Dawit
Tamara Dawit (2020) is an Ethiopian-Canadian producer/director based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Tamara’s creative work tells untold stories from East African history focused on social justice and human rights. Her debut feature “Finding Sally” is a personal look through the eyes of women into the mass killings during the 1970s military dictatorship in Ethiopia. The film opened in Hot Docs (online and TV) and Gotenburg Film Festivals in 2020. Her past films include producing “Girls of Latitude” (MTV) and “Forgotten Children” (Eone) and directing “Grandma Knows Best?” (Bravofact). Tamara has participated in labs at Cannes, TIFF, IDFA, Hot Docs and Sheffield. She is an alumna of both the Berlin and Durban Talents programs and a member of Film Fatales and the Brown Girls Documentary Mafia. In 2019 she took part in the Cannes Doc Corner Rough Cut program, the Miradas Doc Lab Afrolatam pitch, Black Women in Film program at the Toronto International Film Festival, the Doha Film Institute Producers Lab, Produce Au Sud and the Apost Lab. She is currently part of the EAVE producers lab.
As a Logan Nonfiction Program fellow, Tamara will work on a documentary about Italy’s occupation of Ethiopia’s capital of Addis Ababa and massacre of 20,000 civilians in 1937.