Tammy “TS” Botkin

Tammy “TS” Botkin has been producing documentaries for ten years and directing for five. Her feature directorial debut is the Better Angels Lavine Fellow documentary, A Long March, which began broadcast nationally in April 2024 via PBS member stations, and she is Director/Writer/Producer for the American Masters Renegades Daniel K. Inouye episode which began PBS broadcast in October of 2024. Prior to, she co-produced the award-winning documentaries Her Turf (2019, pilot) and Mary Janes: The Women of Weed (2018, feature). A member of the Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania, Botkin’s Indigenous narratives have garnered recognition at Austin Film Festival (2016) and Atlanta Film Festival (2018). In 2023, she received an INSITE Fund grant provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, via RedLine Contemporary Arts, to adapt her screenplay, Nisheneit Ahas, a tribal story now in production as a graphic novel, into a public art mural along with a short documentary. She is a staunch supporter of diverse voices, member, and former board member of Women in Film and Media Colorado.