Tamara graduated with honours from the Cuban Higher Arts Institute in Film Direction. 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.

Segura’s films have been awarded film prizes in Spain, Cuba, Canada, and Mexico. Her 2012 short drama Fireflies won the Martin Luther King Award to best short film of the year.

In 2010, Tamara was chosen for a fellowship under the Leaders for the Americas Program to conduct a research about female sexuality as social construction at Concordia University.

Currently, Tamara is based in Newfoundland, where she won the 2013 RBC Michelle Jackson Award to produce her script Before the War. Her second Canadian short film, Song for Cuba was produced by the National Film Board and its currently making the rounds at a number of festivals.

This year, Tamara has been invited as a panelist to the TIFF Higher Learning Program as part of a discussion about diasporic Cuban cinema. Her interventions will shed a light on issues such as gendered expressions in her work, as well as global imaginaries of nostalgia.Tamara graduated with honours from the Cuban Higher Arts Institute in Film Direction. 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. …