Tamara Dawit is an Ethiopian Canadian filmmaker who is an alumnus of Doha Film Institute, Berlinale Talents, Durban Talents, Rotterdam Lab, EAVE, and APost. Through her production company, Gobez Media, she has produced a number of films including Forgotten Children (2007), Girls of Latitude (2008), Grandma Knows Best (2014), Finding Sally (2020), and Made in Ethiopia (2024).
She is currently producing a slate of dramatic and documentary projects and directing the documentary features The Plot and How to Build A Country. Dawit has consulted on cultural policies for clients, including DW Akademie, Canada Media Fund, Afreximbank, EUNIC, and the Ethiopian government. She also trains and mentors filmmakers for programs in Canada and East Africa. In 2021, Dawit was selected as a TIFF producing fellow and won the Doc Institute Vanguard Award and the Gordon Parks Award for Black Excellent in Filmmaking. In 2023, she was a Chalmers Arts Fellow.
At MacDowell, Dawit conducted research and writing for her new documentary.
Portrait is a still from "Finding Sally", courtesy of the artist
