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Tayarisha Poe is an American writer and director. Her feature directorial debut Selah and the Spades won the Best Narrative Feature Award at the 2019 BlackStar Film Festival and premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. Poe's sophomore film, The Young Wife, was released at the 2023 South by Southwest film festival.
Tayarisha Poe is known for Selah and the Spades (2019), The Young Wife (2023) and Honey and Trombones (2012).
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Tayarisha Poe is a storyteller from West Philly who believes that all stories are inherently multi-sensory and multi-dimensional, and thus should be told that way. She was chosen as one of the 25 New Faces by Filmmaker Magazine in 2015, and in 2016 she received the Sundance Institute’s Knight Foundation Fellowship.
Apr 17, 2020 · Director Tayarisha Poe Has Been Waiting Her Whole Life For 'Selah and the Spades'. The filmmaker's dynamic debut feature adds to a growing list of films about Black girlhood. By Kellee Terrell....
Jun 7, 2024 · Filmmaker Tayarisha Poe talks breaking well-worn narrative structures, disruption as style and how 'Birdman' and 'Melancholia' inspired Poe to create her own form of seeing deeply into 'The Young Wife.'
Apr 25, 2020 · Writer/director Tayarisha Poe ’s feature debut “ Selah and the Spades ,” which made its world premiere as a NEXT selection at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, is an assured first film,...
Apr 21, 2020 · The writer and director Tayarisha Poe discusses the influences behind her boarding school drama streaming on Amazon Prime.
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