<meta charset="utf-8"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font: normal normal normal 13px/19px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; padding-top: 0.6em; padding-right: 0.6em; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0.6em; border-collapse: separate; "><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Born in Washington, D.C., Tahir Jetter graduated with a B.F.A. from NYU in 2010, where he concentrated in Film Production. </p><p><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font></p><p><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Since transferring to NYU at the age of 19, he has </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(77, 77, 77); ">worked on countless productions in various roles in the hopes of learning as much as possible about the production process. Such study has </span>taken him everywhere from student films to music videos, from South Africa, for work on a promotional for a humanitarian organization to NYC, for a short stint on the Columbia Pictures feature, <em><strong>The Other Guys, </strong></em>starring Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell.</p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; "></span></p><p><br></p><p>Intent on shifting his energies toward producing/directing, Tahir wrote and directed an 8-minute film called "<i>Close</i>.," during his senior-year. The film would go on to <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">win awards for directing, screenwriting and performance at the 2011 NYU Tisch School of the Arts First Run Film Festival and would be selected out of thousands of entries to play at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, among others.</span></p><p></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><br></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Tahir is currently in the process of co-producing "A Reasonable Doubt," a short film which he intends direct in Summer of 2011. He is also developing several feature-length ideas, including an expansion of "Close.," which he hopes to direct/produce over the next several years. </p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><br></p></div>