Lia Tarachansky

Lia Tarachansky is an Israeli filmmaker and the former Israel/Palestine correspondent for The Real News Network (TRNN) where she produced short, documentary-style reports exploring the context behind the news. She has directed three documentaries that tackle different aspects social justice struggles in Israel/Palestine. Her 2012 documentary profiles the Israeli version of the Occupy Wall Street movement; in 2013 she released On The Side Of The Road, a film about Israeli collective denial of the mass displacement of Palestinians in 1948, and in 2015 she released Ethnocracy: Israel's African Refugees about the Netanyahu government's five-point plan to make Israel a refugee-free nation. Tarachansky's work is frequently featured in publications such as +972 Magazine, Mondoweiss, USA Today, Al Jazeera, and the Huffington Post.