Tiara Luten

Tiara Luten is an award-winning filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist. She is a lover of travel, museums and 90's R&B music. Tiara's artistic projects in creative writing, cinema and abstract expressionism, are threaded together by the desire to forge ahead on the spiritual path of the journey within one's self. This "yellow-brick-road" motif, along with her love for epic storytelling, have led to her creative and scholarly work in writing and visual art. Tiara's main focus is the craft of immersive, fictional world-building and creating complex characters.

Holding a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Fairleigh Dickinson University and a Master of Arts in Film & TV from Savannah College of Art & Design, Tiara has directed eight short films. She recently wrote the upcoming psychological thriller, Hi John, which was filmed in the UK. Tiara's award-winning thesis film, GODDESS, is an Afrofuturism ode to mythologyand fantasy. GODDESS took audiences on a wild ride through the fictional land of Yonetica in the fifth dimension. Her film and creative writing endeavors have afforded her the opportunity to study abroad in Wroxton, England for two consecutive years. Tiara also received a "Best Director" nomination from the AWFF for the sci-fi short titled, Transmission.

As a self-taught abstract painter, Tiara uses her work as art therapy and moving meditation.