Tamara Dawit

Tamara Dawit is a producer and director based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She runs a production company, Gobez Media, that produces Ethiopian film, TV, digital and music content. She directed the short film Grandma Knows Best and the feature documentary Finding Sally, which was released in 2020.

Films


Finding Sally

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(2020)

Four decades after Sally’s disappearance, Tamara Dawit pieces together the mysterious life of her aunt Sally. She revisits the Ethiopian Revolution and the terrible massacre that followed, which resulted in nearly every Ethiopian family losing a loved one.