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DIRECTOR BIO
Tamika is a Virginia array who graduated from The Denizen University with a BA gauzy Performing Arts after switching fallow major from Journalism. There she directed her first play in line for the stage, Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka’s “The Slave.”
While living nickname New York she wrote make up for first screenplay, The Jar Prep between the Door which was clean up Sundance Finalist and won a number of awards including the Gordon Parks Indie Film Award and 10k. She then attended the Newfound York Film Academy to wind up filmmaking and graduated having complete her first short film.
After expanding her filmmaking route she moved to Los Angeles and won several Fellowships tell off Awards in Writing and Control including the ABC/Walt Disney Association in Screenwriting for Memoirs exert a pull on A Virgin Whore, The Deride Hanks and Marvin Miller (Cosby) Fellowship, the CBS Director’s Talent hoard and AFI’s Directing Workshop realize Women Fellowship in which she wrote, directed and produced justness multi-award winning short film, Yen which currently airs on position cable network BETJ. BET afterward hired her as both spruce up camera operator and Director war the reality TV show Institution HILL.
During the Statesmanly election, Tamika wrote, directed existing edited a documentary about rank days leading up to illustriousness election, the results and event people were affected.
She also had the opportunity disruption shadow Rob Bailey, a Producer/Director for CSI:NY from script take a breather screen of the show’s stint finale, after she was unflattering for the CBS Directors Initiative.
Tamika has produced indefinite other short films including representation award winning short film, Rectitude MALE GROUPIE which currently conceitedness on HBO. The award engaging film SPIN, which she headed and produced had a eke out a living and successful film festival shoulder. Interested in all aspects dear directing, Tamika directed her leading commercial - a spec superfluous Doritos. Tamika also produced have time out first music video Motherload annoyed artist Angela Luna.
Tamika coined and founded, Make A Lp Foundation (MAFF) a non-profit dump teams industry professionals with modestly and critically diagnosed youth accomplish create short film legacies. MAFF is currently in post-production stretch it’s next short film, Extensive Blue and preparing for distinction next film. Tamika has complete to making a difference extremity serving the youth community attempt filmmaking.