Tasha Van Zandt is an award-winning director, cinematographer, photographer and Emmy-nominated producer who has documented stories across all seven continents. Her debut documentary feature-length film After Antarctica follows the life of one of National Geographic’s most legendary polar explorers, Will Steger, and his lifelong journey as an eyewitness to the greatest changes to the polar regions of our planet. The film has received numerous international awards and was featured by The New York Times at The COP26 United Nations Climate Change Conference.

Her award-winning documentary film One Thousand Stories follows the renowned artist JR in the creation of one of his most ambitious mural projects to date, which joined together over one thousand people from all walks of life into a single work of art and was exhibited at the SFMOMA. With the artist JR, she also collaborated on the documentary film Tehachapi, which highlights the artist’s participatory mural project within the walls of a level four supermax federal prison and has documented his mural projects around the world. For her work on TIME Magazine’s Emmy-nominated Guns In America project, she traveled across the country documenting varied perspectives on gun control in the United States.

Her work as a cinematographer includes Art For Everybody (SXSW 2023), Tehachapi (Telluride 2023), Harley and Katya (ABC 2022), Paper & Glue (Tribeca 2021), Jagged (Toronto 2021), Crusaders (VICE 2021) and White Hot: The Rise & Fall Of Abercrombie (Netflix 2022) and her work has been featured by TIME Magazine, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, National Geographic, PBS, Netflix, HBO, Adobe, and VICE, and has been exhibited in museums around the world. Her films have screened in museums such as The Brooklyn Museum, SFMOMA, Perrotin, PACE Gallery, Superblue and Saatchi Gallery. In addition to her work, Tasha has led international filmmaking workshops around the world for National Geographic in places such as Tanzania, Japan, Iceland and Australia. As a passionate storyteller she has been invited to speak at events such as Adobe Max, COP26, The New York Times Climate Hub, The Explorer’s Club, National Geographic Expeditions and as the 2022 UMN Commencement Speaker. Tasha Van Zandt is a 2019 Film Independent Documentary Lab Fellow, a 2019 Sundance Institute Music and Sound Design Lab Fellow, a 2019 SFFILM Sloan Stories Of Science Fellow, a 2020 Film Independent Fast Track Fellow, a 2020 Ken Burns Prize For Film finalist, a 2020 SFFILM FilmHouse Resident, a 2021 Mountainfilm Commitment Grant Recipient, a 2021 Sundance Sandbox Fund Recipient, the 2022 Woods Hole Filmmaker-In-Residence, and is a 2022 DOC NYC 40 Under 40 honoree.