About Us

Zanzibar Films has now established itself as one of Ireland's most exciting and promising film and television production companies. Its aim is to produce quality, entertaining projects with a main criteria being working with emerging talent who share the Zanzibar sense of enthusiasm, dedication, love of film and life in general. With a number of feature projects in development, the company's main producer is Edwina Forkin. Producer Tamara Anghie works on selected projects with the company.
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Producer - Edwina Forkin

After graduating from Trinity College where she was Entertainments Officer, Edwina lived in San Francisco for five years working in the Music business. Returning with a new ambition to work in film she quickly graduated from the EAVE, Media Business School and subsequently from the ACE producers program.

Edwina's debut Feature HEADRUSH (2003) has four international awards to its credit. Her latest feature SUGAR was premiered in Sundance 2005 and screened in competition at Edinburgh & Thessaloniki film festivals. She is also involved as co-producer on DOT.COM (2006) & JOHNNY WAS (2005) She is working on numerous features THE STRAITS - director Johnny Gogan production late 2008 LINGLING - director Patrick Jolley due for production early 2009 and RUNNERS - Director Peter Sheridan, due for production September 2008 while also co-producing SOULED OUT - director Shimmy Marcus, due for production Sept 2008 and IT TAKES THREE TO TANGO - director Audrey O'Reilly, due for production Sept 2008 and OCCI VERUS THE WORLD - director Conor MacDermottroe for July 2008.

Edwina was recently ranked in the top 50 most influential Film Makers in Ireland.

Producer - Tamara Anghie

Tamara Anghie is an IFTA award-winning producer for her short film New Boy which also received a Special Mention at the Berlinale in 2008 and won Best Narrative Short at the Tribeca Film Festival 2008. She has been working in the film and new media industries for the past 15 years after completing a Degree in Film & Media Studies in Melbourne, Australia. She has worked as a production assistant for several film companies which have taken her all around Australia and South-East Asia working on television commercials, corporate videos and promotional travel documentaries.

After spending 6 successful years working in the new media and computer games industries producing award-winning projects for Flagtower Publishing, UK and Sony Psygnosis Computer Games, UK, Tamara returned to film making when she moved to Ireland in 2000. Since then she has been involved with documentary, short film, television and feature film production.

She has produced multiple award-winning shorts including New Boy by writer/director Steph Green, based on the short story by Roddy Doyle, A Dublin Story, directed by Graham Cantwell, Push Hands also directed by Steph Green, Luka by writer/director Adrienne Michel-Long and the Irish language Fíorghael by writer/director Macdara Vallely. She worked for the IFB as production manager on the 'Short Shorts', Martin as well as the award winning film The Last and production managed an Irish/French co-production Jane By the Sea. She was also executive producer on the IFB Short Short Eye Spy and the Filmbase/RTÉ short, Past Pupil.

Tamara graduated from the EAVE programme 2004 and completed the MEDIA Film Business School in 2006. Together with Tom Maguire, she runs Borderline Productions but also works on selected projects with Zanzibar Films in the Republic of Ireland.

Through Zanzibar Films, Tamara was Associate Producer on the Portuguese led feature film Dot Com (2007).

Currently Tamara is lead producing It Takes Three to Tango for Borderline Productions which is in financing stage.