Biography
Tamara Mahoney graduated from Rowan University in New Jersey in 2001 and started her professional career as a Production Assistant for WHYY, 91-FM Philadelphia (the NPR affiliate station). She worked for Morning Edition for approximately six months before moving on to pursue a career in independent and non-commercial film exhibition. From 2001-2004, Tamara worked at the Prince Music Theater as the Program Assistant of Film at the Prince, directly under Program Director Gretjen Clausing.
The non-profit film program, though small in staff and budget, had a huge impact on the city of Philadelphia. The Prince Music Theater boasts the largest screen in the city, a 450-seat auditorium, and a smaller black box theater for video projection. Tamara became very active in the independent film community and worked on award-winning short films, documentaries, television shows, and produced her own short comedy. When she decided to leave the Prince as a full-time employee, she stayed on to freelance as the Assistant Curator for the Prince's annual Youth Film Festival in May 2004. In the same year, Tamara was asked to be a juror for the Philadelphia Film Festival. She was the youngest juror to sit on the panel, and judged the animated short films.
 Budapest Castle, November 2005 |
While spending time pursuing her own creative projects in 2004 and 2005, Tamara set a goal to move abroad, and saved up money by working as a waitress, production assistant, and an administrative assistant. She took about ten weeks of French classes while living in Philadelphia, and finally left her jobs and projects behind to move to Paris, France - just because it seemed like it would be fun. Two months after she arrived, she managed to talk her way into working at the Cannes Film Festival in the south of France. Tamara then spent the better part of 2005 traveling around Europe and having fun, though she returned to the United States for five weeks to work as a Production Assistant on the set of Invincible (Ericson Core, 2006), a Disney Production. In 2006, Tamara held steady work in Paris as an English teacher and a Tour Guide, and continued traveling around Europe whenever possible. |
After over a year and a half of living, working, and traveling abroad, Tamara returned to the United States and re-located to New York City. In December 2006, she joined the staff of Teale-Edwards Productions and worked as the Post-Production Supervisor for the Food Network show Everyday Italian until February 2008, in addition to coordinating productions, maintaining the company website, and assistant editing. From February through April 2008, Tamara lived in Los Angeles and spent her free time reseraching a personal documentary video project, traveling around the West Coast of the US, and planning out her next move abroad.
Determined to return to Europe, but wanting a different experiance from Paris, Tamara set her sights on Amsterdam. She arrived in the Spring of 2008 and lived in the city for about two months before she was offered a job at Wieden + Kennedy. She began working in the Broadcast department in the Amsterdam office as the Audio/Visual Producer in June 2008. In her free time, Tamara works on her own documentary-style web video projects, travels at every oppertunity, studies Italian, and cycles around Amsterdam for hours at a time. Happy with her new home, job, and bicycle, Tamara actually has no plans to move away anytime soon - Amsterdam is home!
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