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Tayarisha Poe is an American writer and director. Her feature directorial debut Selah and the Spades won the Best Narrative Feature Award at the 2019 BlackStar Film Festival and premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. Poe's sophomore film, The Young Wife, was released at the 2023 South by Southwest film festival.
Tayarisha Poe is a multitalented filmmaker who has directed, written, produced, acted and edited several projects, including Selah and the Spades (2019) and The Young Wife (2023). IMDb provides her biography, awards, credits, photos, videos and contact info.
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Tayarisha Poe is a Philadelphia-based director, writer, and photographer. Her first feature-length film, Selah and the Spades , an exploration of boarding school culture, debuted at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. Poe also wrote and directed the short film Honey and Trombones in 2011.
Apr 5, 2017 · Tayarisha Poe is a filmmaker and photographer from West Philadelphia. She was chosen as one of the 25 New Faces by Filmmaker Magazine in 2015, and in 2016 she received the Sundance Institute’s Knight Foundation Fellowship. When I applied to the Sundance Institute Screenwriters Lab, I knew there was something wrong with my script.
Apr 21, 2020 · The writer and director Tayarisha Poe discusses the influences behind her boarding school drama streaming on Amazon Prime.
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Tayarisha Poe creates complex portraits of young people of color in her multisensory work that blends film, photography, and prose across media platforms. “My stories seek to show young people of color that they can choose how to define themselves, and they can shape their world,” she says.
Jan 4, 2019 · Jan 4, 2019 8:30am PT. 10 Directors to Watch: Tayarisha Poe Shows Her Hand With ‘Selah and the Spades’. First-time helmer brings a photographer's eye and her own fresh perspective to...
