Tamara Scherbak

Tamara Scherbak has written and directed a body of work across the genres of fiction, documentary and experimental cinema that have travelled to film festivals around the globe. Notable works include “Dedashka” (2009), winner of Best Director at the Montreal Festiv’elles Film Festival for women filmmakers, “Only Sky & Water” (2011), which screened in competition at the Hot Docs Film Festival and “Is Your Teen a Homosexual?” (2018), 1 of 9 scripts selected for development at the 2015 Berlinale Talents Short Form Station. That short fiction film has screened at over 30 film festivals such as NewFest, Rendez-vous Québec Cinema and the Kyiv International Short Film Festival. Tamara has also directed work for the National Film Board of Canada, and Vice Quebec including the 4-part series “For The Better”. She is an alumna of multiple prestigious talent labs of the Toronto, Berlin and Reykjavik International Film Festivals as well as the Netflix-Banff Diversity of Voices Initiative. Most recently, she was selected for the Harold Greenberg Fund Shorts-to-Features program with producer Christina Saliba for the project “White Noise”, which was also funded by SODEC and will be streaming on Crave.