Tara Douglas began animating Indian tribal stories for The Tallest Story Competition 2006 which was screened to ten thousand children in Central India. She was awarded a Professional Doctorate by Bournemouth University (UK) for Tales of the Tribes: Animation as a Tool for Indigenous Representation. She has organised workshops for artists and storytellers in India. Her documentary The Journey of the Tales of the Tribes (2018) was broadcast on Doordarshan. She has done post- doctoral research at North-Eastern Hill University for the project The Stories of our Ancestors. Tara is a co-founder of Adivasi Arts Trust (UK).