HOMA’s first brush with the art of performance came during high school, on Long Island NY, when she briefly studied with the legendary American dancer & choreographer Jacques D’Amboise. A principal dancer of the New York City Ballet, D’Amboise founded the National Dance Institute in 1976 with a mission of “inspiring children through the arts.”

Between 1989 and 1999, Homa studied at the prestigious Stella Adler Conservatory [now Studio of Acting] and worked as a production assistant on a number of independent film and theatre projects, in New York City. Read “You can get the girl out of New York. But, you can’t get New York out of the girl.”

In the 1990’s, she pursued film and video studies with John Gianvito, the former Curator of the Harvard Film Archives.

During this time, Homa made a number of short, animation and experimental films including Waiting For Van Gogh and an experimental animation film based on Pablo Picasso’s Blue Period masterpiece Seated Nude Back (1902).

  

STEELY EYED SAMURAI (IMDb), A Short Film by HOMA TAJ (IMDb)

 

FEATURE FILMS

Writer, Director, Co-Producer

The Dealer (feature film, development) – Homa is in the process of adapting the script for The Dealer as a stage play. Rene (feature film, treatment) is about a magical encounter between a young aspiring dancer and August Rodin.

SHORT | ANIMATION | EXPERIMENTAL FILMS

Writer, Director, Producer:

Steely Eyed Samurai (short film), 2015

Maria’s Comet (short film), 2014

Nantucket Atheneum (short film), 2013

Seated Nude Back (Animation, 1998)

Jennifer Ricci: Portrait of a Poet, Video Documentary, 1999

Waiting for Van Gogh, Video Documentary, 1999

Experimental Animation (16mm), 1999

OTHERS

Producer, Interviewer Video Series: In Conversation with… (Creatives) for MUSEUMVIEWS,  2003-present

Producer-Interviewer Video Series for GSHAtv at GSHA (Global Sports Heritage Foundation), May-2020-2022