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Ilana Trachtman
Director/Producer

Ilana Trachtman is an Emmy award–winning documentary and children's television producer based in Philadelphia.

For seventeen years, she has produced and directed nonfiction programs in both English and Spanish for PBS, HBO Family, ABC-TV, Showtime, Sundance Channel, Lifetime, Discovery, Trio, A&E, Thirteen/WNET, The Biography Channel and Sesame Workshop.

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Ilana recently directed an episode of Henry Louise Gates' landmark series for PBS, Black in Latin America. Ilana also served as the Supervising Producer on PBS's long-running History Detectives and on the Sundance Channel's critically acclaimed series Big Ideas for a Small Planet.

Other favorite projects include directing Texas Ranch House, the PBS reality/documentary series set in 1867; Our Heroes, Ourselves (Lifetime), an award-winning documentary special about grassroots women heroes; Biography: Sylvia Plath, and 24 w/, a stylized "day in the life" series following pop culture