Tayarisha Poe is a Philadelphia-based director, writer, and photographer. Her first feature-length film, Selah and the Spades, an exploration of boarding school culture, debuted at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. Poe also wrote and directed the short film Honey and Trombones in 2011.
Films
The Young Wife
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(2023)
A young woman grapples with the meaning of love and commitment, following her over her non wedding day.
Selah and the Spades
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(2019)
In the closed world of an elite Pennsylvania boarding school, Haldwell, the student body is run by five factions. Seventeen-year-old Selah Summers (Lovie Simone) runs the most dominant group, the Spades, with unshakable poise, as they cater to the most classic of vices and supply students with coveted, illegal alcohol and pills.
