Tamara Yazbek is a Mexican filmmaker who just completed her Masters degree in Visual Anthropology at Goldsmiths University of London, her final thesis was focused on the representation of women in Latin American societies and the normalisation of violence towards the female gender.
She has a BA in Film and TV from the London College of Communication, in which she wrote her dissertation about the audience’s phenomenological experience of space within film, and has an International Baccalaureate from Edron Academy in Mexico City.
She acted in the film Despues de Lucia which won Un Certain Regard at Cannes Film Festival and was nominated as Best Supporting Actress in Diosas de Oro in Mexico City.
Though her years studying she worked in many film festivals including Raindance, Ambulante and London Feminist Film Festival.
She produced two short films and was a Production Assistant at Pulse Films, having also worked within research and development.
This year she directed, shot and edited her first documentary, Refugio, which was accepted in the official competition of Morelia Film Festival in Mexico and is now on its way to more festivals around the world.