ABOUT
Featured in “Vogue” Photo by Katsu Naito
Emmy Award-Winning Producer/Director Tani Ikeda won the 2017 Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Travel & Adventure Program for the series, Wonder Women. She is Executive Producer/Director of the Black Lives Matter YouTube Original series "Resist" and 2022 winner for "Best Immersive Project" at the Tribeca X Awards for the mixed reality series "Emerging Radiance."
Originally from Seattle, Tani resides in Los Angeles where she produces and directs for Immediate Justice Productions, a production company and nonprofit that delivers high-end content and mentorship opportunities for young women of color storytellers. Immediate Justice Productions has provided mentoring opportunities to over 20,000 teenage girls and non-binary youth in the U.S., China, Uganda, and India.
Tani is a Sundance Fellow and Film Independent's Project Involve fellow as well as a SFFILM Kenneth Rainin Foundation Grantee. She's lectured at USC Film School, Pomona College, CalArts, The University of Utah, University of Oregon and served as Stanford's Artist-In-Residence Fall 2018. Tani received her Bachelor of Arts in Film and Television Production at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts.
Client List:
Warner Media Discovery
VICE
Hallmark
Meta
23&me
Mailchimp Presents
Penguin Random House
Snapchat
Publications:
Vogue
ELLE Magazine
Buzzfeed
The LA Times
Cosmopolitan Magazine
"Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change The World" Seal Press “FUTURE/PRESENT: Arts in a Changing America” Duke University Press
Selected Honors and Awards
Tribeca X Award Winner
"Emerging Radiance AR” won best immersive project in 2022
NoVo Foundation Grant Recipient
"Survivor Love Letter” immersive storytelling project grant recipient 2020 & 2021
RESIST Executive Producer & Director
Youtube Original Series hits 1 million views 2020
Essayist in BELIEVE ME: HOW TRUSTING WOMEN CAN CHANGE THE WORLD
Edited by Jessica Valenti & Jaclyn Friedman, published by Seal Press 2020
SFFILM Rainin Grant Recipient
"Sealskin Women" screenwriting grant recipient 2019
Sundance Screenwriters Fellow
”Sealskin Woman” screenwriters intensive lab 2018
Emmy Winning Documentary Television Director
"Wonder Women" documentary series 2017
Film Independent’s 33 Emerging Filmmakers
Project Involve director’s fellow 2016
CONTACT
General: tani@taniikeda.com
Whitesmith Entertainment
Rep: Keri Smith Esguia
Keri@whitesmithent.com