About Us

Phenomenal Films, LLC is a digital video production, post-production, and media consulting company based in the San Francisco Peninsula and independently-owned by Tamara Gurbis.

About Tamara Gurbis

With fifteen years of professional video experience, Tamara Gurbis has worked professionally as producer, director of photography, director, production and post-production manager, editor and DVD author.

While completing her sociology degree at the University of Nantes, France, she taught undergraduate sociology courses.  Later, wanting to merge her background in the social sciences with her artistic penchant, she studied and collaborated with other filmmakers and video professionals on documentaries and other media projects in Russia for two years.

In 1997, she returned to the United States and located in New York City. After having worked freelance in fashion, corporate and entertainment video, she jointly formed her own freelance company and worked as producer, camera operator, director of photography and editor on various educational programs, documentaries, short and feature films, experimental, and commercial videos. She also taught undergraduate and graduate-level video seminars and workshops at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and headed NYU’s Production Center’s Advanced Film Department. She opened Phenomenal Films in California in 2004. From 2005 to 2007, she worked for Lobitos Creek Ranch as the company’s full-time post-production manager, and later became a proficient DVD author and professional editor while collaborating on dozens of projects for The Video Project, a film distribution company for environmental, science and social issues. She has also worked on projects for PBS-KQED, Yoga Journal, U.S. Forest Service, Lightyear Entertainment, Polychrome Studio, and the Health and Healing Network. She currently works as an independent producer and cameraperson, and has also expanded her business to helping non-profits with their online media needs.