Tara Douglas began animating Indian tribal stories for
(The Tallest Story Competition 2006) and the following year, she
screened the films to ten thousand children in Central India.
Tara has been awarded a Professional Doctorate by Bournemouth
University (UK) for Tales of the Tribes: Animation as a Tool for
Indigenous Representation. She has organised workshops for artists and storytellers
in Central and North East India. Her documentary film The Journey of the Tales
of the Tribes (2018) was broadcast in India on Doordarshan. She has done postdoctoral
research at North-Eastern Hill University for the project The Stories of
our Ancestors. Tara is a co-founder of Adivasi Arts Trust (UK).
