Tamara Wilson
Feed Your Imagination and Shock the World!
ABOUT ME
Above the Line
I work with clients to create targeted and unique results
Highly respected and insightful entertainment and broadcast news leader with nearly 30 years of experience. I have demonstrated success in leading project development, television and interactive media production strategies.
Emmy nominated in the Historical Documentary category for directing, writing and co-executive producing, Black and Reporting: The Struggle Behind the Lens
Recipient of the Peabody Award, DuPont-Columbia Award, The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Award, Gracie Award, NAMIC Award, NABJ Salute to Excellence Award, and AABJ Pioneer Award
Handle project operations including managing budgets and allocating resources
Broad-ranging skills with a knack for adapting to the ongoing changes in the broadcast and digital industries
Dynamic, engaging and highly ambitious – risk taker, innovator, and creative driver aligning teams and ideas to produce engaging and powerful pieces
SNEAK PEAK
Take a look and find more of my work on my portfolio page.
BLACK & REPORTING
The Struggle Behind The Lens
This emmy-nominated documentary is the firsthand account of some of Atlanta's broadcast pioneers, who recount the dangers and difficulties they faced early on in their careers.
They also share their triumphs and gratitude as the film unveils their fight alongside the FCC to force local TV and radio stations to hire more black talent in front of and behind the camera.
I am the director, writer and co-executive producer of this production.
Getting Ahead
Getting ahead can take more than having good grades. The Oliver Scholars program guides and challenges promising students in underserved communities and gives them a shot at elite universities.
It was great working with CNN Anchor, Don Lemon.
I produced and wrote this piece.
Keeping It Classy
Melanie Elturk knew Muslim women were struggling to find quality hijabs. She changed all of that when she founded Haute Hijab in 2010.
I had the chance to interview Melanie in New York.
I produced, wrote and helped shoot this piece.
Little Miss Flint
Mari Copeny refuses to let the world forget about Flint's water crisis.
I met up with Mari in her hometown to produce, write and help shoot this piece.
Visit my PORTFOLIO page to see more samples of my video productions.
Check out my DIGITAL VAULT page to view some of my online articles.
what i do
The Backdrop
A creative storyteller with both editorial and technical skills
Sometimes production days can be long and tiresome with its share of unforeseen problems. Check out the photo of me in one of my work t-shirts.....LOL!
Despite those rough days, I absolutely love what I do from ideation to completion - producing short and long-form serious world-news stories or light-hearted, entertainment and human interest stories to instructional, promotional or electronic press kit videos.
GIVING BACK
Rough Cut
Teaching the ins and outs of the business by showing traditional and alternative approaches to media production
I am a dedicated mentor, who likes volunteering my time and contributing talent toward working with students and interns to demonstrate production methods, research and story development to increase their interest and passion for media production.
I instill in them the importance of having time and budget management skills. I show them how I work logistically and creatively to get the most out of the resources available to me in order to produce captivating visuals for my clients.
FRAME-BY-FRAME
It was great hanging out with actor Patrick "McDreamy" Dempsey all day for a great cause.
I was one of the photojournalists on this story. I also booked, produced and wrote this package for CNN.
SKILLS
Producing
Writing
Video Editing
Canon DSLR
Sony FS5
CMS
Drupal
Adobe Dreamweaver
Adobe Encoder
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Premiere
Final Cut Pro
Concur
ShowMGR
Frame.io
Slack
Ariba
Sharepoint
Wordpress
Microsoft Office
Microsoft OneDrive
Microsoft Teams
Consulting
Public Relations
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