About Me

Honesty Taszhé is an award-winning writer, director, and producer. Honesty was born and raised in Kansas City, MO, and resides in Brooklyn, NY. As a graduate of Missouri State University, she holds a Bachelor of Science in Digital Film and Television Production and a Master of Fine Arts in Dramatic Writing. As a black disabled woman, she prides herself on developing narrative and nonfiction projects that are honest, vulnerable, and relatable depictions of Black, Brown, and Indigenous life.

Some of Honesty's previous works have focused on black women and girls' identity, love, and loss struggles. One of her earliest shorts, Post Miseriam (2019), was a short film winner for the Missouri Broadcast Educators Association, and her short film Spark (2024) was an official selection of the Los Angeles Lif-Off Film Festival. Her recent short film, JEN (2024), was awarded Best Heartland Short for the Kansas City FilmFest International and Best Short for the International Black & Diversity Film Festival in Ontario, Canada. Honesty holds over twenty film festival official selections and five film festival wins for narrative projects she has written, directed, and/or produced over the last few years.

Recently, Honesty was selected as an Industry Standard 2024-2025 Experience Resident sponsored by the Netflix Fund for Creative Equity. She was also a 2025 Quarterfinalist for Black Boy Writes and Black Girl Writers Mentorship Initiative.

Outside of her narrative and nonfiction pursuits, Honesty spends her time dabbling in photography and writing poetry.

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