
Tara Sheffer
Production
Biography
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

A young woman and an old man embark on a road trip to preserve his consciousness at an experimental facility.
Anima

A highschool janitor runs through a series of dangerous obstacles.
Trapped

Richard, a lonely and well-meaning prison officer, is put in charge of reading and censoring the letters received by inmates.
The Letter Room

On the day of their green card interview, a young couple confronts a dangerous immigration process.
A Lien

A married couple's celebratory date night is derailed when the wife lets the wrong name slip out during sex.
Slip

When a complacent young bartender living in small-town Maine agrees to model for a existentially floundering painter on an artist's retreat, both women must confront their preconceptions of what makes a good life.
In Transit
Follows an entrepreneurial ex-Pan Am stewardess who opens a drive-thru condom kiosk in her Italian Catholic town. Overnight, Emanuella becomes a lightning rod in the community, a radical hero to local teens, and an unlikely threat to her tight-knit community.
Rubber Hut

A scrappy assistant reaches her breaking point when her charismatic, self-obsessed boss blows off her request for a promotion.
Merci, Poppy

Frankie, an on-the-make teen who’s hell-bent on stepping into her sexual power, is forced to pivot when her big night doesn’t go according to plan.
F*ck That Guy

On the brink of their thirties, five longtime friends reunite for a farewell getaway, but their idyllic retreat turns sour when they lose their beloved dogs in the woods.
Domestic Animals

A lonely American faces unrequited love on a farm commune in the south of France.
Plaisir

Two childhood friends journey through a dangerous ritual that will test their friendship.
Flounder

A home healthcare worker steals her dementia patient’s winning scratch-off lottery ticket.
Scratch-Off
After losing her little sister Grace to an overdose, June Bell is haunted by the choice of what to do with her ashes.
My Dear God

Grieving the tragic loss of her sister, a teenage girl from an isolated Christian community goes to great lengths to find closure.
Holy Water

A young boy’s fantasy about love towards an older woman is disenchanted when he is faced with the reality of intimacy.
Winter by the River

Chaos ensues in an idyllic beach town, when thirteen-year-old Niki, convinced she's ready to be an adult, plans a heist to watch an R-rated movie leading to irrevocable consequences with her family.
If You Show Me Yours I'll Show You Mine
Lonely Road follows a self-reliant traveler on their way to California from rural Texas. When they find themselves stuck in a deserted small town, a woman struggling against her own demons reluctantly comes to their aid. As the two barrel down the highway into the night, the traveler discovers that they have more in common than they could've ever imagined and a healing connection forms.