Lia Tarachansky
An award-winning documentary filmmaker, journalist, and scholar with two decades of experience in production and story development. Lia’s work bridges investigative, long-form, poetic and experimental documentary forms. The films she’s helped as The Doc Doula won prestigious awards at Sundance and premiered at Berlinale and TIFF.
She cares deeply about form and rigorous storytelling that engages history, politics, and culture in accessible ways. She also spend much of her time developing and continually adapting the filmmaking process itself.
In 2026 She will complete my PhD in Cinema and Media Studies at York University, Canada. Her doctoral work looks at decolonial gestures through emerging media like Augmented Reality, Interactive Documentary, and Immersive Forms. She won the prestigious Elia Scholarship and the MITACS award for her research.
She teach film production, narrative concepts, and cinema studies at Humber College, York University, and the Toronto Metropolitan University where I help early career filmmakers sharpen both their ideas and their craft.
Recent Doula Projects
The films below are project I’ve helped shepherd, whether in Development, Production, Post Production, or Distribution. To learn about my own films, visit naretiv productions.
