Tahria Sheather

Director, Producer

Wildcat follows the inspiring story of a young veteran on his journey into the Amazon. Once there, he meets a young woman running a wildlife rescue and rehabilitation center, and his life finds new meaning as he is entrusted with the life of an orphaned baby ocelot. What was meant to be an attempt to escape from life, turns out to be an unexpected journey of love, discovery, and healing.

WINNER - 2023 Emmy Award for Outstanding Nature Documentary

WILDCAT

Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa, directed by Lucy Walker, tells the remarkable story of Lhakpa Sherpa who, as a girl denied an education, concealed her gender to work in the mountains. She became the first Nepali woman to summit Everest before immigrating to the US where she’s raised children as a single mother and climbs in pursuit of a better life.

2023 Toronto International Film Festival

Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa 

A three-part series with Gnarly Bay and Opendoor exploring heartfelt stories of families going through the process of buying a home. 

OPENDOOR: STORIES OF HOME

The limited series adaptation of Michael Pollan’s bestselling book How To Change Your Mind launched on Netflix on 12 July 2022. This series is the culmination of two years of collaboration with scientists, patients and practitioners who have found healing in psychedelic medicines – plant or compound.


HOW TO CHANGE YOUR MIND 

Efforts to strip away protections on Bears Ears National Monument have left only a small fraction of land protected in Indian Creek, Utah. To draw awareness to the battles being waged over the future of Bears Ears and other public lands, composer, climber and conservationist Jessica Kilroy set out to record the soundscapes of this unique and culturally significant area. The sounds of weather, landscape, and wildlife combine to create orchestral movements in perfect harmony – sounds to remember and music to rally behind.

2019 Mountainfilm Festival

THE CREEK SESSIONS

Weaving a story about what we discover when we push beyond loss, Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements is a deeply personal memoir by Irene Taylor about a deaf boy growing up, his deaf grandfather growing old, and Ludwig van Beethoven as he went deaf and wrote his iconic sonata.


MOONLIGHT SONATA: DEAFNESS IN THREE MOVEMENTS 

I told the heartfelt story of century-old family business Sweetland Candies for Facebook for Business in collaboration with Stept Studios. The Naums are third-generation immigrants who have weathered many eras of challenge to create a thriving local candy store. This was part of a five-part series highlighting how Facebook helps support small businesses.

FACEBOOK: SWEETLAND CANDIES

A team of dedicated filmmakers and scientists document the world’s healthiest orca population in the Norwegian Arctic to help protect it from oil exploration. Echoes in the Arctic premiered at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival.
