Tamara Mariam Dawit

Tamara Mariam Dawit

Biography

Tamara Mariam Dawit is a producer and director and runs a production company Gobez Media that produces Ethiopian film, TV, digital and music content. She has produced content for CBC, Bravo, MTV, Radio Canada, Discovery and NHK, among other networks. She directed the short film GRANDMA KNOWS BEST? in 2014 and in 2020 the feature documentary FINDING SALLY. (African Women in Cinema Blog)

On the film’s website, Tamara Mariam Dawit writes: ‘I hope that FINDING SALLY can be a plea for freedom of speech and critical thinking, and also an indictment of silence in general in Ethiopia. Even today, as young people frequently protest the government, their elders are still hesitant to talk about their own activism and past losses which closely mirror many aspects of the present-day situation. I hope that this film can be a catalyst to discussing the country’s past and engaging in critical discourse about the road ahead.’

Filmography

FINDING SALLY (2020): Direction