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Tara Douglas

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).