Bios

Tamara Segura is a Cuban-Canadian Filmmaker. She graduated with honours in Film Direction from the Cuban HigherArts Institute. Later she specialized in Screenwriting at the International Film School of San Antonio de los Baños, an acclaimed institution founded by Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez to help diversify the globe’s cinematic landscape. Based in Newfoundland, since 2012, Tamara has been awarded the 2013 RBC Michelle Jackson Award for Best Emerging Female Filmmaker for her film Before the War. Her second Canadian short film, Song for Cub, was produced by the National Film Board of Canada and opened the Busan International Short Film Festival in Korea in 2017. She also co-directed Becoming Labrador, a feature-length documentary produced by the National Film Board of Canada and screened at the Closing Night of the Reelworld Festival 2019. It also won the Jury Special Mention in the Construir CineFestival in Argentina. Her feature-length documentary Seguridad, in which she examines patriarchy within the context of post-revolutionary Cuba, has been produced by the NFB, and won the Best Atlantic Documentary Award at the Atlantic Film Festival 2024.