Tamara Segura graduated with honours from the Cuban Higher Arts Institute in Film Direction. Later she specialized in Screenwriting at International Film School of San Antonio de los Baños, an acclaimed institution founded by Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez to help diversify the globe’s cinematic landscape.
Segura’s films have been awarded international film prizes in Spain, Costa Rica, Cuba, Canada, and Mexico. Her 2012 short drama Fireflies won the Martin Luther King Jr. Center’s Caminos Award to best short film of the year. Also, her first feature-length screenplay, for the film “The Sunflowers”, was selected for the prestigious Foundation Carolina development program in Spain. In 2010, Tamara Segura was chosen for a fellowship under the Leaders for the Americas Program (ELAP) to conduct a research about female sexuality as social construction at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.
When she was based in St. John’s, Newfoundland, she won the 2013 RBC Michelle Jackson Award to produce her script Before the War. Her second Canadian short film, Song for Cuba was produced by the National Film Board of Canada and toured festivals.
In 2014, Tamara was invited to be a panelist at the TIFF Higher Learning Program as part of a discussion about diasporic Cuban cinema. Her interventions seek to shed a light on issues such as gendered and racialized expressions in her work, as well as local and global imaginaries of nostalgia.