Biographie
Tara Jan been working in the television business for almost 35 years. As a Freelance Producer, she manages productions from start to finish, large and small; sent crews all over the world and has produced hundreds of hours of television with her teams. As a Supervising Producer, she hires the creative team, manages the budget and schedule and makes sure the production is delivered on time and on budget. She works on live teleconferences, one-off documentaries, live shows, series television, feature docs, reality series, dramatic recreations and integrated digital solutions for broadcast clients. From Mike Holmes renovation shows for HGTV, to an Emmy award-winning documentary on the sex slavery trade in Moldova on "Front Line", to a museum app for the ROM, she has managed a variety of mediums, teams, projects and collaborators. At Muse Entertainment in Toronto as Executive in Charge of Non-Scripted Production, she oversaw all television series production, web content, development and distribution, start to finish. While there, as well as producing several series on the factual side, she worked on the 8-part dramatic series on CBC entitled "Coroner", and the Netflix original film, "Good Sam".
Tara was the Executive in Charge of Production for Associated Producers here in Toronto, overseeing a 6-part documentary series, featuring Samuel L. Jackson, on the transatlantic slave trade in 2019 and 2020. For this series, she managed the filming of slave shipwreck dives for the series on 5 continents and sent crews to over 12 countries all within one year. It won several awards including Best Documentary series at the CMA's that year. Even more recently she was the Producer on a four-part doc series for Amazon Canada released worldwide in spring 2022, and it premiered at HotDocs as well.
She has been teaching at Centennial since 2014 in both the 3-year Broadcasting program as well in the post-graduate Film and Television Business program.
