Tahria is an Australian-born Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker based on the US west coast. Her work spans the breadth of the human experience. She has directed at 24,000ft on Mount Everest, covered a historic paleontological expedition into the heart of the Sahara Desert and unraveled the mysteries of the human psyche for HBO, Netflix, Amazon, The New York Times and National Geographic among others.
Most recently she second-unit directed the Mount Everest expedition for the Peabody and Emmy Award-winning feature documentary, MOUNTAIN QUEEN: THE SUMMITS OF LHAKPA SHERPA, which was released on Netflix in 2024. She produced the documentary series HOW TO CHANGE YOUR MIND, which was released on Netflix in 2022 and nominated for a 2023 News & Documentary Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Graphic Design and Art Direction: Documentary. She also worked on the 2023 Emmy Award-winning feature documentary WILDCAT and produced the HBO Documentary Films feature MOONLIGHT SONATA: DEAFNESS IN THREE MOVEMENTS, which premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking. Tahria directed ECHOES IN THE ARCTIC about National Geographic photographers Paul Nicklen and Christina Mittermeier’s work on orca conservation in Norway, which premiered at Tribeca Film Festival in 2020. She has also filmed for National Geographic as part of expeditions to countries like Gabon, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Mongolia and Turkey.
As a branded director, Tahria’s clients include Facebook (Meta), Opendoor, Amgen, Chaco Footwear, Destination Canada, Columbia Sportswear, Travel Oregon and NoVo Foundation. Her films have received recognition at Sundance Film Festival, Toronto International Film festival, HotDocs, Tribeca Film Festival and Mountainfilm among many others. She is a Sundance Institute Fellow and on the board of creative nonprofit Treehouse Project. When she’s not making films you can find her in adventuring in the water, mountains or desert.