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USA | 10:50 | Narrative Short

Meet The Makers:

Executive Producer: Randall Sawyer

Director: Tamika R. Guishard

 DOP - Cybel Martin

Director: Tamika R. Guishard

Tamika’s a first-generation American born of Kittitian heritage in East New York, Brooklyn. With the mind of a Ranger, heart of a teacher and soul of a dancer, she taught middle school Social Studies in her hometown before completing NYU Graduate Film. She believes in the powerful fusion of education and cinema, collaborating with school districts, Tribeca Film Institute, Great Minds, National Parks, and on Leech Lake Reservation to make “films that help”. 

Her forthcoming African dance-driven feature film about foster youth, "Rhythm in Blues" (RnB), is supported by Rooftop Filmmakers Fund, Digital Bolex’s Women Cinematographers Grant, and NYSCA. Both its proofs of concept were recognized by Oscar-qualifying festivals and shot, directed, written, and co-produced by Black women, as she works to cultivate herstory and “ourstory” in front and behind the camera. She's been published and featured at Center for Educational Policy Research and SXSWedu as a “pedagogical filmmaker”.

Tamika’s one of two non-Canadians selected for Black Women Film Canada! at TIFF, the sole filmmaker in her Residency Unlimited cohort, and an inaugural fellow for Athena Film Festival's LA Writers Lab. Tamika’s writing’s advanced at Nashville and Canada International film festivals, her most recent screenplay distinction being for the short, "Pride," which won the Governor's Office's "Celebrate Equality NY". Tamika is also developing her awarded TV pilot.  It’s inspired by her experiences as a Park Ranger at Lower Manhattan's African Burial Ground producing webisodes for Ken Burns’ PBS docuseries.

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