Tara Garwood

Tara Garwood (she/her) is an award-winning filmmaker, and owner of Tarakata Films. She specializes in telling women's stories through the lens of horror. Garwood's background as an actor and former horror theatre Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director informs her work as a director, writer, and producer. Garwood's short films "Lonely," "The Lake," and "The Strangle of Ivy" have appeared in several festivals, with "The Lake" and "The Strangle of Ivy" receiving awards for independent short, directing, acting, and more. She won the Hayes Horror Workshop competition and is being mentored on her first feature film by the Hayes Brothers, writers of "The Conjuring." Garwood is also and award-winning actor and voice over artist and has been seen in several Hollywood films, including "The Invasion" with Nicole Kidman, "My One and Only" with Renee Zellweger, and John Waters' "Cecil B. DeMented". She has also worked on many industrials and independent films, including "Women's Studies", a wonderfully campy horror movie in which she plays a homicidal psycho with a feminist agenda. Tara is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA and Actors' Equity Association.

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  Veep

  White House Staffer

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  My One and Only

  Diner Woman

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  The Lake

  Laney

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  Uke & Trust Me

  Assistant Director

• Women's Studies

  Judith

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  Full Moon Fables

  Ariel Mayflower

• The Strangle of Ivy

  Director

• 2014Uke & Trust MeAssistant Director
• 2013The LakeLaney
• 2012VeepWhite House Staffer
• 2010Women's StudiesJudith
• 2009My One and OnlyDiner Woman
• 2004Full Moon FablesAriel Mayflower
• —The Strangle of IvyDirector