Tanya's first film as a producer premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2002. Since then, she has produced and directed dozens of films in different genres and created branded content for organizations such as the Ms. Foundation for Women and corporations such as Conde Nast.
She has collaborated with production companies such as Aubin Pictures and Story Syndicate, and filmmakers such as Liz Garbus, Catherine Gund, Tiffany Shlain, and Mickalene Thomas. Tanya's films have played on HBO, PBS, Showtime, Starz, IFC, Refinery29, Vice, and the Sundance Channel; and have premiered at Sundance, Berlin, Tribeca, Aspen Shortsfest, and SXSW.
Branded content
Glamour Women of the Year
Unstoppable
Ms. Foundation for Women
The Meteor
Producing
Catherine Gund
I've been working with Catherine and Aubin Pictures since 2007, beginning with What’s On Your Plate?, which premiered at the Berlinale and played on Discovery Channel’s Planet Green. Our second collaboration, Born to Fly, about daredevil choreographer Elizabeth Streb, premiered at SXSW Festival, played at Film Forum in 2014, and after a run on PBS’s Independent Lens, was nominated for an Emmy Award for Best Arts & Culture Programming. In 2017, I consulted on Catherine’s documentary feature Chavela, which premiered at the Berlinale. Our latest film is AGGIE, a documentary about her mother, renowned art collector and philanthropist Agnes Gund. Aggie sold a $165 million Lichtenstein painting to start the Art for Justice Fund to fight mass incarceration. AGGIE had its world premiere at Sundance 2020:
https://www.sundance.org/projects/aggie.
Mickalene Thomas
I produced Mickalene's documentary Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman about her mother and muse, the late Sandra Bush. The film aired on HBO in 2014 and continues to screen alongside Mickalene's stunning art.
Carrie Mae Weems
I’ve collaborated with this MacArthur Award winning artist on multiple projects since 2008, including her retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in 2014; her show Grace Notes: Reflections for Now at Yale Repertory Theater in 2016 and the Kennedy Center in 2017; and The Shape of Things at the Park Avenue Armory in 2017.
Liz Garbus
I worked with Liz on a few PSAs, including “It’s Not Okay,” which was featured on CNN, MSNBC, and many more outlets.