Tara Sheffer
Tara Sheffer is an award-winning filmmaker from Arkansas, United States. She has produced over twenty short films including Flounder (Clermont Ferrand Official Selection and Vimeo Staff Pick), Plaisir (SXSW Official Selection and Searchlight Short), and line-produced The Letter Room (nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film). As a director, Tara’s most recent film My Dear God premiered at the New Orleans Film Festival, and her work has notably screened at Indie Memphis, Indie Grits, Nitehawk Shorts, and Jeff Nichols’ Arkansas Cinema Society. Her previous credits include coordinator at the Department of Motion Pictures, associate producer of development where she developed We Bought The Farm (HGTV), true-crime television writer, and Scott Rudin’s assistant. Tara holds an MFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
Projects in development
Plaisir, dir. Molly Gillis (feature)
Rubber Hut, dir. Hanna Gray Organschi (feature)
Aunt Sammy, dir. Tara Sheffer (feature)
Roadtrip to the Totality Zone, dir. Emily Railsback (feature)
Monster Camp, dir. Matt Laud (feature)
The Possessions, dir. Tara Sheffer (feature)
Henry and Alice, dir. Gail Segal and Zelmira Gainza (feature)
Projects in production / post-production
Trapped, dir. Sam & David Cutler-Kreutz (short)
Scratch-Off, dir. Tara Sheffer (short)
F*ck That Guy, dir. Hanna Gray Organschi (short)
Moonbeams, dir. Elo Santa Maria (short)
The Ghost, dir. Allyson Morgan (short)
Merci, Poppy, dir. Hanna Gray Organschi (short)
Released films
Love Taps, dir. Derrick Woodyard (short)
A Lein, dir. Sam & David Cutler-Kreutz (short)
Threads of Desire, dir. Bianca Di Marco (short)
My Dear God, dir. Tara Sheffer (short)
Lonely Road, dir. Elo Santa Maria (short)
Flounder, dir. Sam & David Cutler-Kreutz (short)
Plaisir, dir. Molly Gillis (short)
Rotterdam Lab participants 2024
See the names of the emerging producers joining us for the Rotterdam Lab 2024.