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 A LIEN (nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film), TRAPPED (SXSW Jury Award Winner and Palm Springs ShortsFest Best US Short), PLAISIR (SXSW Official Selection and Searchlight Short), and she also 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 Official Selection and winner of the Sara Driver Award) and SCRATCH-OFF (winner of the Marlyn Mason Grand Prize at the Rhode Island International Filckers Film Festival and winner of the Tisch King Screenwriting Award). Her previous positions include coordinator at the Department of Motion Pictures and assistant to Scott Rudin. Tara is a The Gotham/Rotterdam Producing fellow, a Sundance Producing Lab fellow, a Film Independent Fast Track fellow, and the recipient of the Robert Oberman/Gregory Pickert Media Services award for excellence in creative producing.