Tara
Miele
Writer / Director
Tara Miele directed her first film in her senior year at the University
of California at Santa Barbara. The short 16mm horror film, Miss
Gentilbelle, earned her a National Honor grant as well as the Corwin-Metropolitan
Theatres Award. It premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival and
has screened around the world. Tara transitioned into comedy with
her second short film, Smackers, which screened at dozens of festivals,
including South by Southwest and was recognized as one of the “Best
of Fest” at the Newport Beach Film Festival.
Recently, Tara (along with writing partner Kris Skeie) sold her
first feature length screenplay, Cougars, to Gold Circle Films.
The romantic comedy about older women who hunt younger men is slated
to shoot later this year with Gil Junger at the helm. She also
completed her passion project, a dramedy entitled Tits. Silverwood
Films snatched up the rights to the project, pegging Tara to make
her feature directing debut.
Miele is currently writing The Untitled Reverse Working Girl Project,
a romantic comedy which she sold to New Line Cinema with John Shestack
Productions.