Scratch-Off

Directed by Tara Sjeffer

Length: 19:21
Producers: Eliza Soros, Tara Sheffer
Editor: Tara Sheffer
Cinematographer: Elo Santa Maria
Sound Mixer: Wren Haven

A home healthcare worker steals her dementia patient’s winning scratch-off lottery ticket.

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tara.e.sheffer@gmail.com

TARA SHEFFER is an award-winning filmmaker from Arkansas with a diverse background in production and development.

She has produced over twenty short films including FLOUNDER (Clermont Ferrand Official Selection and Vimeo Staff Pick), PLAISIR (SXSW Official Selection and Searchlight Short), and line-produced THE LETTER ROOM (nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film). As a director, Tara’s most recent film MY DEAR GOD premiered at the 2021 New Orleans Film Festival, and her work has notably screened at Indie Memphis, Nitehawk Shorts, Little Rock Film Festival (where she was nominated for best director), and the Jeff Nichols founded Arkansas Cinema Society’s film series FILMLAND.

Her previous credits include coordinator at the Department of Motion Pictures, associate producer of development where she developed WE BOUGHT THE FARM (HGTV), true-crime television writer, and Scott Rudin’s assistant. Tara participated in the 2019 Woman at Sundance Strategy Intensive in NYC and holds an MFA in filmmaking from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, where she was the recipient of the Sara Driver Production Award, the Robert Jahn Scholarship, the Peter Gould Scholarship, and the 2021 Robert Oberman/Gregory Pickert Production Award awarded to the best producer at NYU.