Tamara Jenkins

Tamara Jenkins is a director, screenwriter and actress who received acclaim for her independent films the Slums of Beverly Hills and The Savages. Jenkins was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Savages in 2008.

Jenkins grew up in Philadelphia but when her family divorced she was uprooted with her father and brothers to Beverly Hills. She returned to the east coast in the 1980s, living in New York City and exploring herself as an actress and performance artist. By the 1990s she decided to take her artistic endeavors to a new level by studying the medium of film at New York University. Her short film, Fugitive Love screened at the Sundance Film Festival in 1991 and her second short film, Family Remains followed in 1993 winning her the Jury Prize for Short Filmmaking.

Jenkins' debut feature, Slums of Beverly Hills was a semi-autobiographical look at her move to Beverly Hills as a young girl. The film screened at both Sundance and Cannes. There was a nine year period between the film and her most recent. During that time Jenkins found herself working on various rewrites as well as attending an artists' colony in Saratoga Springs to work on her screenplay The Savages. The script was inspired by her grandmother and father who both suffer from dementia.

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