San Francisco Director
Resume:
Tamara Turner
Director, Producer
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Expertise: Skilled at uncovering compelling stories, perspectives and
viewpoints, and producing powerful experiences on film. The unusual
combination of creative acumen, drive and detail orientation results in
efficient, on-time, on-budget projects.
A 12 year veteran of documentary film making, Tamara has a formal education
in film and has studied at Stanford University as well as receiving a BFA
from the Film School at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.
Tamara would like to gain commercial experience in film and television.
Tamara's specific skills include:
. Storytelling and creative expression of experiences
. Organization and detail management
. Event management
. Documentary research and commitment to portraying fact-based, accurate
stories
. Solid instinct about nuances in stories that create emotion and touch
audiences
Selected List of Films and Experience
Sharpie/The Wedding Commercial, 2012
. Director/Producer
. Winner: 2012 Silver ANDY Award
SPIDERS, 2011
. Director/Producer
. Short narrative film
Who Are You, 2011
. Director/Producer
. Music Video
The Seven Polluted Wonders, 2010
. Assistant Producer, Lake Tahoe Shoot
. Responsibilities included location scouting, hiring and managing
camera people.
Callidus training video shoot
. Assistant Producer/Unit Production Manager
. Responsibilities included, managing wardrobe, make-up and actors.
Slating scenes, keeping track of hours for the crew and cast.
DOCUMENTARIES
Keepers of the Water, 2000
Motivating expose of the drive and passions that propel these exemplary
environmental activists, David Brower, Robert Kennedy Jr and Sylvia
McLaughlin, whose work and accomplishments led to the reform and protection
of water.
. Wrote, produced and directed this 12 minute film
. Screened at New York Film Fest film festivals, Lake Tahoe
International Film Festival and San Francisco Independent Shorts
Festival
. Private Screening at The Regency in San Francisco for the Waterkeeper
where Sylvia McLaughlin received the Waterkeeper Lifetime Achievement
Award.
. Earth Day at the Portola Valley Schools in Portola Valley California
Defending the Sacred, 2004
Defending the Sacred is a David and Goliath story of five Native American
tribes who live along the Colorado River. When their sacred lands were
threatened by a nuclear waste dump (proposed by industrialists and the
State of California), they united and entered a 15 year battle. The Native
American Tribes' goal was to save their way of life for future generation.
. Wrote, produced, directed and edited the 22 minute film
. Screened at The Telluride Film Festival, Native American Alliance Film
Festival in Los Angeles.
. Private screenings at the Women's Building in San Francisco where
Director/Producer Tamara Turner received the Red Tail Hawk feather, a
symbol of a warrior in the Mohave and Mojave Tribes.
Being Bahai 2007
An inspirational chronicle of a young man who moves from Cameroon, Africa
to San Francisco. From a small village filled with people who have limited
resources to a big city where abundance is taken for granted. But this
vibrant young man carries his faith in his smile and finds a way to share
his trust in humanity through his unwavering faith in being a Bahai.
Wrote, shot, directed, produced and edited this 5 minute film
Screened at the 2007 Epidemic Film Festival, screened on San Francisco
Public Television
Link in the Chain, 2009
A kid who starts hustling drugs at 13 and survives a drive by shooting at
14 decides to turn his life around by attending and graduating from college
as a young adult. He then starts a flourishing youth organization in the
very neighborhood he was able to escape. The film tells the story of this
inspirational human being who not only avoided the ill-fated life expected
of him but has forged a new path for others to follow.
. Wrote, produced, shot, edited and directed 11:35 minute film
. Screened at San Diego Black Film Festival, Los Angeles Women's Film
Festival, San Francisco Epidemic Film Festival and the New York Film
Festival
. Screened privately at Foreign Cinema in San Francisco raising funds
for under privileged youth in East Palo Alto, California.
Schools and Education
The Academy of Art University, San Francisco, BFA, 2012
Studied Psychology/Anthropology @ Stonybrook University, New York
The Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, method acting
Stanford University, California, documentary film
Interests
Event Planner for the Baykeeper in San Francisco, The Natural Defense
Council, San Francisco
Advisory Board Member and event planner for the United Nations Film
Festival at Stanford University
Performing Arts Director for the Portola Valley Schools
10 years of practicing commercial and residential real estate
Volunteer counselor @ Boys and Girl Club and For Youth By Youth
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