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, FLOUNDER, PLAISIR, and she line-produced THE LETTER ROOM. Tara’s directorial work includes MY DEAR GOD and SCRATCH-OFF. Her previous positions include coordinator at the Department of Motion Pictures and assistant to Scott Rudin. Tara is a Sundance Producing fellow, a Gotham/Rotterdam Producing fellow, and a recipient of the Robert Oberman/Gregory Pickert Media Services award for excellence in creative producing.