Tamara Scherbak

Filmography

• Is Your Teen A Homosexual?

  • Fiction
  • Comédie
  • 6 min
  • anglais
  • 2018
  Johnny fait son coming out à sa famille dans une comédie allégorique qui satirise l’Amérique de Trump en s’inspirant du style des films éducatifs des années 1950. Main theme: Homosexualité-LGTB-Queer, Secondary theme(s): Luttes sociales, Société.
  Prix : Best Humor Award - The 4th Out & Loud Pune International Queer Film Festival, Official Selection (2020)
  Selected for development at the Berlin International Film Festival - Berlinale Talents Short Film Station (1 of 9 projects)
  Winning projects at the Toronto Queer Ideas Salon (1 of 8 projects)
  Finalist - Main Film « Pitch ton Court Pitching » Competition
  Winner of the (TRI) Cycle 2 Main Film Production Grant.
  Made with support from ACTRA Montreal.
  Diffusion : 31st Image & Nation LGBTQ Montréal Film Festival – Official Selection Queerment Québec (2018)
  37th Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma – Official selection - Vive la rigolade (2019)
  8th Kyiv International Short Film Festival - Official Selection Short Attack (2019)
  9th International Short Film Festival of Cyprus - Official Selection in International Competition (2019)
  31st NewFest – New York’s LGBTQ Film Festival- Official Selection The Gag’s All Here (2019)

• Lost Postcards

  • Fiction
  • Drame
  • 3 min
  • anglais
  • 2016
  Un film de fiction vertical raconté à la première personne sur une femme qui a tellement peur de quitter sa propre ville qu’elle collectionne de vieilles cartes postales d’endroits où… Main theme: Voyage, Secondary theme(s): Femmes.
  Diffusion : In competition at the Vertical Film Festival - Katoomba, Blue Mountains, Australia, 2016
  In competition at Linea D’Ombra Festival “Vedo Verticale” - Salerno, Italy, 2018
  Official selection at Andaras - Travelling Film Festival - Fluminimaggiore, Sardinia, Italy, 2019
  Special presentation at Plot 19 Storytelling Forum - Munich, Germany, 2019
  In competition at VerticalMovie Film Festival presented at the MACRO - Rome Contemporary Art Museum - Rome, Italy, 2019

• Recycle, Reuse, Remix

  • 5 min
  • autre langue
  • 2010
  Les pépins, les bugs, les erreurs de compression, la distorsion et le bruit jouent tous un rôle dans cette fouille dans le désordre de la mémoire et du souvenir. Le… Main theme: Art et culture, Secondary theme(s): Histoire.
  Diffusion : FilmPop Montreal “Making Music 3”
  In competition at the MAshRome Film Festival - Rome, Italy
  Reels Winner of the Sound In Motion Film Showcase - Toronto, Canada

BIOGRAPHY

Tamara Scherbak has directed numerous films such as Dedashka, winner of Best Director at the Montreal Festiv’elles Film Festival for women filmmakers, Only Sky & Water, which screened in competition at the Hot Docs Film Festival and Lost Postcards which played at the MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome. Her most recent film, Is Your Teen a Homosexual? has travelled to over 20 film festivals around the world including NewFest in New York City. Tamara has also directed work for the National Film Board of Canada, and Vice Canada. In particular, the 4-part Vice digital series For The Better / Pour le mieux garnered several million views online. She is an alumni of multiple prestigious talent labs of the Toronto, Berlin and Reykjavik International Film Festivals as well as a fellow of the Netflix-Banff Diversity of Voices Initiative.

AREAS OF ACTIVITY

• Documentaire, Fiction, Expérimental
• Court métrage
• Film, Télévision, Web

EMAIL
[email protected]

WEB SITE
miksang.ca