GOOD TALK WITH ERICA TANAMACHI

Erica Tanamachi's (Director/Producer) first documentary feature, Home Court (2024) received the 2023 ITVS Open Call award and will broadcast on Independent Lens in March 2025. She is also a 2024 Wyncote Filmmaker Fellow. Her previous film, Winn, premiered at the 2022 Atlanta Film Festival and won a Reel South Shorts Award and Best Short from the PBS Short Film Festival and Justice on Trial Festival and is distributed on PBS’ The Reel South. Erica was Creative Producer for the feature documentary Motherload (2019) which garnered the HERO award from Better Cities Film Festival and "Best International Documentary '' from the Hollywood North Film Awards. She also won "Best Documentary" from The Sonoma Film Festival, Silverlake Film Festival, and The Documentary Foundation for her short documentary, "Living Poets." Notably, Erica also was creative director of a national fashion brand called Christopher Collins. Erica is an MFA Cinema graduate of San Francisco State University (2007) and has been producing and directing independent documentaries for over 20 years.