My Dear God

Directed by Tara E Sheffer

Type of Project: Drama
Length: 12:00
Producers: Tara E Sheffer, Bianca Di Marco, and Catherine Rierson
Editors: Caitlin Carr and Tara Sheffer
Cinematographer: Elo Santa Maria
Sound Designer: Ryan Billia

After losing her little sister Grace to an overdose, June Bell is haunted by the choice of what to do with her ashes. Set in the misty winter of Arkansas, My Dear God unravels the tangled choices we unwittingly make while we are caught in the chaos of grief.

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Tara Sheffer is a Southern director and producer from Little Rock, Arkansas, living in Brooklyn.  She has worked as an associate producer of development in the unscripted space, a true crime researcher, Scott Rudin’s assistant, and coordinator at the Department of Motion  Pictures, formally known as Court 13.   

Tara graduated from Bard College with a double major in film and literature, making films and writing about Jane Austen. She is now an MFA candidate at New York University Tisch School of the Arts, Kanbar Institute of Film & Television Graduate Film. She is a Tisch Scholar and the recipient of the Sara Driver Film Production Award, the Robert Jahn Scholarship, and the Peter Gould Scholarship. Tara participated as a producer at the Woman at Sundance Strategy Intensive in New York City in 2019.