Tani Ikeda

Emmy Award-Winning Producer/Director Tani Ikeda won the 2017 Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Travel & Adventure Program for the series, WONDER WOMEN. She is Executive Producer/Director of the Black Lives Matter Youtube Original series "RESIST" and 2022 winner for "Best Immersive Project" at the Tribeca X Awards for the mixed reality series "EMERGING RADIANCE." Originally from Seattle, Washington, Tani now resides in Los Angeles where she produces and directs for IMMEDIATE JUSTICE PRODUCTIONS, a production company and nonprofit that delivers high-end content and mentorship opportunities for young women of color storytellers. Her recent client list includes Warner Media Discovery, VICE, Hallmark, Youtube Originals, Meta, Snapchat, 23&me, Mailchimp Presents, Penguin Random House and Google. IMMEDIATE JUSTICE PRODUCTIONS has provided mentoring opportunities to over 20,000 teenage girls and non-binary youth in the U.S., China, Uganda, and India. Tani is a Sundance Fellow and Film Independent's Project: Involve fellow as well as a SFFILM Kenneth Rainin Foundation Grantee. She has been published in Vogue, ELLE Magazine, Buzzfeed, The LA Times, Cosmopolitan Magazine, and as an essayist in Sealpress' "Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change The World." She's lectured at USC Film School, Pomona College, CalArts, The University of Utah, University of Oregon and served as Stanford's Artist-In-Residence Fall 2018. Tani received her Bachelor of Arts in Film and Television Production at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts.