Lia Tarachansky

Lia Tarachansky is an Israeli-Canadian journalist and filmmaker born in the Soviet Union. Her video journalism covered American politics, the Middle East, and Canadian-indigenous relations.

She has made over 200 short, experimental, and five feature-length films that range in style from investigative to experimental for BBC World, The Guardian, TeleSUR, and Naretiv Productions. Her films won awards, premiered at major festivals, and toured globally.

As a Media Scholar, she's also made multimedia like Augmented Reality, interactive docs, soundwalks, and poetic shorts. She teaches at Humber College, the Toronto Metropolitan University, and York University.