Lia Tarachansky

Lia Tarachansky is an Israeli-Canadian journalist and filmmaker born in Soviet Ukraine.

Her video journalism covered American politics, the Middle East, and Canadian-indigenous relations. She has made several short, experimental, and feature-length films that range in style from investigative documentary to experimental visual poetry for BBC World, TeleSUR, +972 Magazine, and Naretiv Productions. Her films won awards and toured globally.

Lately she's been making multimedia like Augmented Reality and soundwalks, poetic shorts, and reading barely-comprehensible books for her PhD in Media Studies. She is a Graduate Research Associate at York University’s Sensorium and Peripheral Visions Co-Lab. She teaches cinematography and media production at LIFT, Humber College, and York University.

For more info, check out www.liatarachansky.com and www.naretivproductions.com