Ethiopian Canadian film producer, screenwriter and director.

She is sometimes credited as
Tamara DAWIT

Tamara Mariam DAWIT is a film producer (Gobez Media), screenwriter and director.

She is known for known for Mehal Sefari (In Development, 2022, Producer), Finding Sally (2020, Director), Neteb (2019, Producer), Grandma Knows Best? (2014, Director), Girls of Latitude (2008, Producer).

Born: June 29, 1980 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Tamara Dawit is a producer/director based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia where she runs a production company (Gobez Media) that produces Ethiopian film, TV, digital and music content. Tamara has experience producing music content, tours, creative documentaries, digital content, formatted television and is now branching into dramatic films. She has produced content for CBC, Bravo, MTV, Radio Canada, Discovery, and NHK, among other networks. She directed the short film Grandma Knows Best? (Bravo, 2014) and the feature documentary Finding Sally (CBC, 2020).
Tamara is of Ethiopian, Eritrean, Ukrainian and British ancestry.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: Tamara Mariam Dawit
www.imdb.com/name/nm6776936/bio

FILMOGRAPHY

(In Development) /// Mehal Sefari (Feature drama). Director: Abraham Gezahagne
* Producer

(filming) /// Made in Ethiopia (Documentary). Directors: Max Duncan, Xinyan Yu
* Co-Producer

(2020) /// Finding Selam (TV Movie documentary)
* Director
* Screenwriter

(2020) /// Finding Sally (Documentary)
* Director (as Tamara Dawit)
* Screenwriter (as Tamara Dawit)

(2019) /// Neteb (TV Series). Directed by Brutawit Dawit
* Producer (as Tamara Dawit)

(2019) /// Yegna: The Story of All of Us (TV Series). Directors: Robert Klenner (3 episodes, 2019), Hiwot Getaneh (2 episodes, 2019), Serkadis Megabiyaw (1 episode, 2019)
* Development producer (10 episodes)
- Choices (2019)... (development producer - 2017-2018)
- Looking Ahead (2019)... (development producer - 2017-2018)
- No Shame (2019)... (development producer - 2017-2018)
- Don't Give Up (2019)... (development producer - 2017-2018)
- No Means No (2019)... (development producer - 2017-2018)
- Brave (2019)... (development producer - 2017-2018)
- Secrets and Lies (2019)... (development producer - 2017-2018)
- Finding Time for Fun (2019)... (development producer - 2017-2018)
- Big Man on Campus (2019)... (development producer - 2017-2018)
- Find Your Voice (2019)... (development producer - 2017-2018)

(2014) /// Grandma Knows Best? (Documentary short)
* Director
* Screenwriter (as Tamara Dawit)
* Producer (as Tamara Dawit)

(2008) /// Girls of Latitude (TV Movie documentary). Director: Liz Marshall
* Producer (as Tamara Dawit)


LINKS
www.gobez.ca (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia + Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
https://findingsally.com/


Source: www.imdb.com/name/nm6776936/
updated by Thierno Dia, on 5 January 2022