Tamara Shogaolu
Founder & Creative Director @Ado Ato Pictures
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WORK HISTORY
Founder & Creative Director @Ado Ato Pictures
Amsterdam, NL
Responsible for overseeing and managing creative operations of Ado Ato Pictures and coordinating between teams in the United States, Europe and Asia. I specialize in combining new media, tech and original techniques to design and produce content that pushes the boundaries of traditional storytelling.
EDUCATION
Washington International School
International Baccalaureate (IB) - Bilingual
University of Southern California
M.F.A., Cinematic Arts , Film and Television Production.
The American University in Cairo
Certificate, Arabic Language Institute
Occidental College
B.A., Economics
University of Jordan
Certificate, Arabic Language and Economics with Middle East emphasis
ABOUT TAMARA SHOGAOLU
Tamara Shogaolu is an Emmy® Award–winning, Peabody-nominated director, writer, and artist whose work merges cinematic storytelling with bold experimentation. Recognized by Forbes, The Guardian, and Vogue as a visionary voice in film and emerging media, she tells stories that are intimate, subversive, and deeply human—across cinema, animation, immersive media, and fine art.As the founder and creative director of Ado Ato Pictures, Shogaolu is the first Black Latina woman to head a leading studio specializing in film, animation, and technology. With an emphasis on storytelling that uplifts historically marginalized voices, her dynamic work has been shown at top festivals, galleries, and museums worldwide including the MoMA in New York, Tribeca Film Festival, the National Gallery of Indonesia, among others. In addition, Shogaolu has written for Sony Pictures Animations and partnered on projects with the Sundance Institute, Netflix, PBS, Frontline, and the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival (LALIFF). A creative force on the rise, Shogaolu won the 2022 SXSW Innovation Award for Visual Media, the Best Digital Storytelling Award at IDFA 2021, the 2022 Scripps Howard Award for Excellence in Multimedia Journalism, a 2020 Creative Capital Awardee, and was nominated for a Gouden Kalf Award, the top film prize in the Netherlands (2019 and 2022). Shogaolu holds an MFA from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts, where she was a Burton Lewis Endowed Scholar for Directing. Currently, she is a fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)\'s Open Documentary Lab and an inaugural Motion Picture Academy Accelerator Fellow; she was also an Academy Nicholls Fellowship semi-finalist, a Fulbright Scholar in Egypt, and a Luce Scholar in Indonesia. Tamara currently serves as creative director of the Amsterdam and Los Angeles-based studio, Ado Ato Pictures.
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