Erica Tanamachi
Erica Tanamachi’s latest film, HOME COURT (2024), received ITVS's Open Call Funding and will be on PBS' Independent Lens in Spring of 2025 — it is currently on the festival circuit and won the juried Best Documentary at Austin Asian American Film Festival. Her previous film WINN (2022), premiered at the 2022 Atlanta Film Festival and won a Reel South Shorts Award and a distribution deal with PBS. WINN also won "Best Short Film" in the 2023 PBS Juried Film Festival and the 2022 Justice on Trial Film Festival. Erica was Creative Producer for the feature documentary, MOTHERLOAD (2019). Erica is an MFA Cinema graduate of San Francisco State University (2007) and has been producing and directing films and commercial work for over 20 years which have received various awards and recognition, since her first documentary film, LIVING POETS (2005) shot on 16mm film. HOME COURT (2024) is Erica's first feature as director.
