Tara Sheffer
Production
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 TRAPPED (SXSW Official Selection and Jury Award Winner), FLOUNDER (Clermont Ferrand Official Selection and Vimeo Staff Pick), and PLAISIR (SXSW Official Selection and Searchlight Short), and she 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 and winner of the Sara Driver Award) and SCRATCH-OFF (NYU Tisch King Award finalist and winner of the NYU Tisch King Screenwriting Award). Her previous positions include coordinator at the Department of Motion Pictures and assistant to Scott Rudin. Tara is a 2024 The Gotham/Rotterdam Producing fellow and the 2021 recipient of the Robert Oberman/Gregory Pickert Media Services award for excellence in creative producing at NYU.
Known for
The Letter Room
June 16, 2020
A Lien
January 23, 2023
Plaisir
March 20, 2021
In Transit
August 17, 2025
Flounder
December 2, 2021
Anima
March 12, 2026
Ramona at Midlife
September 26, 2023
Winter by the River
December 1, 2020
Merci, Poppy
June 8, 2024
F*ck That Guy
June 12, 2024
Trapped
March 9, 2024
Scratch-Off
July 31, 2024
Behind the camera19
- 2026Anima Associate Producer
- 2025In Transit Producer
- 2025Domestic Animals Production Coordinator
- 2024Holy Water Executive Producer
- 2024Scratch-Off Director, Producer
- 2024F*ck That Guy Producer
- 2024Merci, Poppy Producer
- 2024Trapped Producer
- 2023Ramona at Midlife Associate Producer
- 2023A Lien Producer