Draft:Tamika Lamison

Tamika Lamison is an American actor, screenwriter, film director, Producer and humanitarian. She is the founder of Make a Film Foundation, a nonprofit organization which aims to fund the film wishes of young people who are facing life-threatening medical conditions by teaming them with noted film industry professionals who help them to create short films, founded in 2006.

Lamison is senior vice-president in charge of development and production at PhilmCo Media, a film production company. There is a non-profit arm of the company which has helped to fund the documentary films Bourn Kind and Are We There Yet, which Lamison produced.

As a content creator with Make a Film Foundation, Lamison produced over 100 short documentary films and four award-winning short narrative films, worked with notable actors and film directors including J. K. Simmons, Johnny Depp and Catherine Hardwicke. Lamison is known as a producer for various TV & film projects such as the Tribeca Audience Award-winning doc feature Ferguson Rises, Spin, Last life, Monogamy, and Hope. She has been awarded several fellowships and awards in writing and directing films including ABC/Walt Disney Fellowship and the COSBY fellowship.

Early life and education
Lamison was born in Richmond, Virginia, US, on May 26, 1969. She earned Bachelor's degree in Performing arts from the American University and Howard University, she later graduated from the New York Film Academy where learned filmmaking and also is an American Film Institute alum in directing women workshop.

Film career
Lamison's first script The Jar by The Door written while she was in college, became a finalist in the Sundance Film Festival labs and won several awards like the IFP Gordon Parks Indie Film Award with a prize of $10 000, which she used to move to Los Angeles after attending the York Film Academy. After her first script and graduating, she moved to Los Angeles where she received fellowship from notable partners like ABC/Walt Disney, the Guy Hanks and Marvin Miller (2003-2006), CBS Director's initiative.

Some of Lamison's additional credits in producing or writing and/or directing of shorts, features and documentaries such as: Last Life (Rise Again), Spin (2006), Hope, The 3rd Era of Medicine, The Male Groupie (2004), and Sex &Violence or: A Brief of Simple Physics.

In 2004, Lamison was one of the directors and DP for BET's first reality show, College Hill (2003).[7] She was a staff writer and supervising producer of three seasons of Monogamy, a 2018 released UMC streaming series that can now be seen in Amazon Prime’s ALLBLK.

Lamison is also the Executive Director for the CDDP-Commercial Directors Diversity Program, which is a Diversity and Inclusion initiative that nurtures and supports historically under-represented Directors in the commercial industry via workshops, mentoring, networking, shadowing and grant funds to produce a spec commercial. Lamison built and expanded the program over the course of five years after helping to research and develop the Academy gold program at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Film / TV
Short films / Documentaries