Tara O'Callaghan is an award-winning Irish-Serbian director boldly reshaping norms and conventions through her work. With a keen focus on authenticity, she navigates the realm between impactful storytelling and creative flexibility through an emotionally driven core. She crafts narratives centred around female lead stories while shedding light on overlooked societal issues.

Tara's advertising and music videos have earned her kinsale shark awards, vimeo staff pickS, YDA, and EDA awards. Her debut short documentary 'Call Me Mommy' won best short documentary at the Galway Film Fleadh and premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. Recognized by the Irish Times on their '50 People to Watch for 2023' list, Tara was also IFTA-nominated. She recently won two YDA awards in Cannes 2023, a gold for short documentary and the prestigious Grand Jury Prize.

To see more of Tara’s commercial work check out the Motherland Website.

To hear more about Tara’s motivation behind Call Me Mommy, read her interview with Shots.net.