Tamara Segura
- Director
- Additional Crew
- Writer
Tamara Segura is a Cuban Canadian filmmaker who graduated from the International Film School of San Antonio de los Banos, Cuba, an acclaimed institution founded by Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez to help diversify the globe's cinematic landscape. Segura's films have been awarded film prizes in Spain, Cuban Canana and Mexico.
Based in Newfoundland, Canada since 2012, Tamara has been awarded the 2013 RBC Michelle Jackson Award to Best Emergent filmmaker for her film Before the War (2014). Her short film Song for Cuba (2014) was produced by The National Film Board of Canada and opened the Busan International Short Film Festival, Korea, in 2017.
Recently, Tamara has co-directed Becoming Labrador (2019), a feature-length documentary produced by the National Film Board of Canada that screened at the Closing Night of the Reelworld Festival 2019. Her short film C Sharp and D Suspended (2018), one of the finalists of the CBC Short Film Face Off contest, premiered at the East Coast Reel Gala of the FIN Festival 2018 and is available in CBC Gem.
Tamara holds an MFA in Film Production at York University. Her thesis film Father Figures, has recently been acquired by the distribution company 7Palms Entertainment. Her feature length documentary Seguridad, in which she examines patriarchy within the context of post-revolutionary Cuba, has been produced by the NFB, will be released in 2024.
Based in Newfoundland, Canada since 2012, Tamara has been awarded the 2013 RBC Michelle Jackson Award to Best Emergent filmmaker for her film Before the War (2014). Her short film Song for Cuba (2014) was produced by The National Film Board of Canada and opened the Busan International Short Film Festival, Korea, in 2017.
Recently, Tamara has co-directed Becoming Labrador (2019), a feature-length documentary produced by the National Film Board of Canada that screened at the Closing Night of the Reelworld Festival 2019. Her short film C Sharp and D Suspended (2018), one of the finalists of the CBC Short Film Face Off contest, premiered at the East Coast Reel Gala of the FIN Festival 2018 and is available in CBC Gem.
Tamara holds an MFA in Film Production at York University. Her thesis film Father Figures, has recently been acquired by the distribution company 7Palms Entertainment. Her feature length documentary Seguridad, in which she examines patriarchy within the context of post-revolutionary Cuba, has been produced by the NFB, will be released in 2024.
