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Tara Sheffer

Producer

Tara Sheffer

19 films

Tara Sheffer is an award-winning filmmaker from Arkansas with an MFA in filmmaking from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. She has produced over twenty-five short films including TRAPPED (SXSW Official Selection and Jury Award Winner), FLOUNDER (Clermont Ferrand Official Selection and Vimeo Staff Pick), and PLAISIR (SXSW Official Selection and Searchlight Short), and she line-produced THE LETTER ROOM (nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film). Tara’s directorial work includes MY DEAR GOD (New Orleans Film Festival and winner of the Sara Driver Award) and SCRATCH-OFF (NYU Tisch King Award finalist and winner of the NYU Tisch King Screenwriting Award). Her previous positions include coordinator at the Department of Motion Pictures and assistant to Scott Rudin. Tara is a 2024 The Gotham/Rotterdam Producing fellow and the 2021 recipient of the Robert Oberman/Gregory Pickert Media Services award for excellence in creative producing at NYU.

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The Letter Room posterFirst watchThe Letter Room20206.6Richard, a lonely and well-meaning prison officer, is put in charge of reading and censoring the letters received by inmates.View film

Filmography

19 films
  1. TBAMy Dear GodProducer
  2. TBASlipExecutive Producer
  3. TBAIf You Show Me Yours I'll Show You MineProducer
  4. TBARubber HutProducer
  5. 2026AnimaAssociate Producer
  6. 2025In TransitProducer
  7. 2025Domestic AnimalsProduction Coordinator
  8. 2024Holy WaterExecutive Producer
  9. 2024Scratch-OffProducer
  10. 2024F*ck That GuyProducer
  11. 2024Merci, PoppyProducer
  12. 2024TrappedProducer
  13. 2023Ramona at MidlifeAssociate Producer
  14. 2023A LienProducer
  15. 2021FlounderProducer
  16. 2021PlaisirProducer
  17. 2021Lonely RoadProducer
  18. 2020Winter by the RiverProducer
  19. 2020The Letter RoomLine Producer