Tamika Lamison

Tamika Lamison

Born: May 26, 1969
in Richmond, Virginia, USA
Tamika is a Virginia native who graduated from The American University with a BA in Performing Arts while also studying at Howard University. While living in New York she wrote her first screenplay, "Jar By the Door", which was a Sundance Finalist and won several other awards including the Gordon Parks Indie Film Award and $10,000 which she used to move to Los Angeles after attending and graduating from the New York Film Academy where she fell in love with directing.

While in LA, Tamika won several Fellowships and Awards in Writing and Directing including the ABC/Walt Disney Fellowship in Screenwriting for, "Memoirs of A Virgin Whore," The Guy Hanks and Marvin Miller (Cosby) Fellowship, the CBS Director's Initiative and AFI's Directing Workshop for Women Fellowship in which she wrote, directed and produced the multi-award winning short film, HOPE which aired on every major network. She was then hired as both a Camera Operator and Director on one of BET's first reality TV shows: College Hill.

Most recently Tamika was a writer for the current streaming series "Monogamy" which can be found on Amazon and UMC. She also produced and starred in the Award Winning Feature film, "Last Life" (also known as "Rise Again") written and directed by Michael Phillip Edwards.

In an effort to give back, Tamika created and founded, Make A Film Foundation (MAFF), a non-profit that grants 'film wishes' to children who have serious or life-threatening medical conditions by teaming them with noted actors, writers and directors who help them create short film legacies. Through MAFF, Tamika has produced over 100 short documentaries and 4 award winning short narrative films, working with noted actors and directors including J.K. Simmons, Johnny Depp, Laura Dern, David Lynch, Catherine Hardwicke, Theodore Melfi, Kerry Washington, Sean Astin, Rodrigo Garcia and many more. She was invited to do a TEDx talk about her journey with Make A Film Foundation, which can be found on You Tube, along with several talks about her writing process shared through Film Courage.

Movies for Tamika Lamison...

Last Life
Title: Last Life
Character: Yvette
Released: February 11, 2018
Type: Movie
Two lovers learn they've known each other over many life times and that this is their last life together. They don't have long to live and must clean up the 'hurts' between them earned over the millennia and multiple personalities they've inhabited together. Travelling through time visions, the see themselves as slaves, as officers of the law, as stranger on a train and heal the rifts between them as they revisit. Unfortunately they learn they are not alone. A third entity reveals he has been following them through many lives as several different people. He is angry that they are now preparing to leave the earth. The entity does not want them to leave it behind and fights against their harmony.
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Look @ Me
Title: Look @ Me
Character: Kate
Released: September 12, 2006
Type: Movie
Tina has been using the internet and her perfect body to achieve financial success. After being kidnapped and imprisoned by her biggest and most twisted web fan, she must use both like never before to escape.
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Cradle Will Rock
Title: Cradle Will Rock
Character: Diego - Models
Released: December 10, 1999
Type: Movie
A true story of politics and art in the 1930s USA, centered around a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production.