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Tammy Joe is a Vancouver-based costume designer whose work lives at the intersection of storytelling and psychology—where costumes reveal the quiet truths of character. Driven by a fascination with the emotional architecture of clothing, she crafts layered, intuitive designs that breathe humanity into every role. Her costumes are known for their tactile beauty, meticulous detail, and narrative depth—garments that don’t simply dress a character but inhabit them. Tammy approaches colour, texture, silhouette, and breakdown as tools of character development, translating internal worlds into visible form.

Before working in film, Tammy’s career spanned education, freelance design, medical software consulting, and project management at a home-staging firm. This broad foundation—stretching across costume and apparel design and business consulting—gives her a multidimensional understanding of the narrative power embedded in clothing and the acumen to coordinate the various crafts that bring costumes to life. She most recently designed Carrie Season 1, an Amazon series based on Stephen King’s novel. Her past work includes the multi-period feature Akashi, directed by Mayumi Yoshida with Musubi Arts and Experimental Forest Films; The Nest, a multi-period documentary directed by Chase Joynt and Julietta Singh with the National Film Board; and Mongrels, a FIPRESCI Prize–winning feature directed by Jerome Yoo with Game Theory Films and Telefilm.

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