Tara Garwood

Known for

Acting

Birthplace

Washington, D.C.

Biography

Tara Garwood (she/her) is an award-winning filmmaker, and owner of Tarakata Films. She specializes in telling women's stories through the lens of horror. Garwood's background as an actor and former horror theatre Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director informs her work as a director, writer, and producer.

Garwood's short films "Lonely," "The Lake," and "The Strangle of Ivy" have appeared in several festivals, with "The Lake" and "The Strangle of Ivy" receiving awards for independent short, directing, acting, and more. She won the Hayes Horror Workshop competition and is being mentored on her first feature film by the Hayes Brothers, writers of "The Conjuring."

Garwood is also and award-winning...