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Tamika Miller is an award-winning American Director, Producer and Writer. A passionate storyteller, she who began her career at age 21. By age 23, she produced her first commercial, and has since produced and production supervised over 100 commercials and high-profile music videos, including major brands such as Bank of America, Target, Verizon, Toyota, American Express and Old Navy, and has lent her skills to music videos for artists such as Madonna and Christina Aguilera.

A Director, Producer and Writer currently living in Los Angeles, California, Tamika's production experience and tremendous attention to detail has contributed to her success as a filmmaker. Tamika made her documentary film debut with a short documentary co-directed by Sylvain White (Stomp the Yard, The Losers) entitled Released: 5 Shorts on Women in Prison, where she featured renowned scholar and activist Angela Davis. Soon after, she wrote and directed her narrative film, Gift for the Living, starring 2004 Cannes Special Jury Prize winning actress Irma P. Hall (Ladykillers), with voice over by actress Vanessa Williams (New Jack City, TV series Soul Food). Gift for the Living won the 2005 Showtime Black Filmmaker Showcase Grand Prize and continues to air on the Showtime Cable Network. Furthermore, it went on to participate in numerous film festivals around the world, and won the 2004 Outfest Audience Award for Outstanding Short Narrative.

Tamika's subsequent short narrative, Sarang Song, won the 2006 San Francisco Black Film Festival Award for Best Short and can also be seen on the Showtime Cable Network as well as MTV Logo, and is currently distributed by Wolfe Video.

In March 2007, Steven Spielberg chose Tamika as 1 of 50 finalists, out of a record-setting 12,000 submissions from around the world, to compete in his series, On the Lot - the winner of which received a $1 million development deal with DreamWorks. As a finalist, Tamika garnered herself a First Look deal with DreamWorks.

In August 2007, the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign chose a commercial spec written and directed by Tamika as 1 of 5 finalists, from hundreds of submissions, as a candidate to air during a CNN/YouTube Democratic debate.

Impressed with Tamika's fresh perspective and creative storytelling, here! Network, in 2008, acquired and developed Tamika's original series Gris-Gris Girls - a half-hour comedic series about five women juggling career and romance in New Orleans.

In February 2009, Tamika was named to the Board of Directors of OUTFEST - the leading organization showcasing, nurturing and preserving lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgender film images.

In November 2009, Tamika produced Glamour Magazine's annual Women of the Year tribute films honoring Maria Shriver, Maya Angelou, Stella McCartney and Amy Poehler, to name a few. In addition to producing 10 films for Glamour, Tamika directed films for honorees Serena Williams and Grammy Award winning artist Rihanna. Furthermore, she interviewed tennis champion Venus Williams, Academy-Award winning actor Jamie Foxx, freed journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling, and actress/comedienne Maya Rudolph. The films aired during Glamour Magazine's annual awards ceremony at Carnegie Hall in New York City.

In 2010, Tamika produced Crepe Covered Sidewalks, a riveting documentary of actress Renee' Wilson's (Ray) return home to the devastation and desolation of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, and the effects the aftermath has on her and her family - five years after the storm.

A gifted filmmaker, Tamika is a tremendous talent and truly a triple threat.