Karli Zschogner is a Whitehorse Yukon-based video journalist, filmmaker, trainer, and community organizer. From daily news to long-form investigative work, her video, audio, and web reporting prioritizes trauma-informed storytelling and underreported communities while encouraging solutions-focused journalism. Years based in the Western Arctic town of Inuvik, NWT, her work has appeared with CBC News, APTN National News, Cabin Radio, Up Here Magazine, BBC News, and Inuvialuit Communications Society.
Her short documentaries have screened at the Atlantic International Film Festival and the Dawson City International Short Film Festival, while her drone and portrait photography has been recognized by the Far North Photography Festival and the Norwegian Arctic Council. She has been location manager for multiple international productions including Amazing Race Canada and Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion.
Projects:
- ‘We Are Here: 2SLGBTQ+ across Northern Canada , Docu-Series, Ongoing since 2025, Co-Director/Producer, Deep Rooted Productions
- ‘In Support of the Missing North’, Docu-Series/Online Working Group, Ongoing since 2026, Co-Director/Co-Producer, Deep Rooted Productions
- ‘Welcome Yukon Project: 2SLGBTQ+ Entreprenueaurship Training, Educational Videos & Modules, 2025, Video Director/Producer, Tourism Industry Association of Yukon/Soulfly Consulting Group
- ‘MELT’ , Documentary, 2025, Location Production Assistant – Inuvik & Aklavik Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion GmbH
- ‘Amazing Race Canada Season 11, 2025, Production Assistant – Tuktoyaktuk, Marathon Productions 11 Ltd.
- ‘The Disappearance of Frank Gruben’, Documentary/Podcast/Web-Series, 2023/2024, Director, APTN Investigates
- ‘The Arctic isn’t melting anymore, it’s on fire’ says co-chair Gwich’in Council International’, Video News/Web, 2023, Director/Filmmaker, APTN National News, Arctic Youth Network
- ‘Sasakwe: Origins of the Healing Jingle Dress’, Special Web/Documentary, 2023, Director/Filmmaker, APTN National News
- ‘Sundogs, snowdrifts, and caribou soup: Snowmobile trip to Old Crow returns after pandemic delay’, Documentary/Web, 2023, Director, APTN National News/ Inuvik Justice Commitee
- ‘Edward Lennie inducted into Sports Hall of Fame’, Video News, 2022, Director/Filmmaker, CBC North
- ‘Coastal Champion Spotlight Nova Scotia Series, 2021, Director/Filmmaker, Sea Change Canada/Sustainable Eastern Ontario
- ‘Constant Contact’, 2018, Co-Director/Co-Producer, Deep Rooted Productions/University of King’s College
Awards & Recognitions:
- Screening, 2026 Dawson City International Short Film Festival, We Are Here: Shylo Foster, Short Documentary, 2025, Director/Producer, Deep Rooted Productions
- Photography Winner/Magazine Feature, Arctic Council’s Pathways Magazine, 2025
- Photo Feature, 2025 Far North Photo Festival (Yellowknife, NWT), Photographer, ‘Vittrekwa Familiy on Johnny Charlie Skidoo Trip’
- Screening, 2025 Dawson City International Short Film Festival, ‘Our Land: Tuktoyaktuk Community Resiliency Project’, 2023, Director, Inuvialuit Communications Society
- Award Shortlist Finalist for 2022’s Mindset Award for Reporting on the Mental Health of Young People, ‘Tuktoyaktuk youth establish a House of Hope to help others’, 2022, video director/producer, Cabin Radio NWT
- Speaker, Canadian Roots Exchange (Indigenous Youth Roots) ‘Foraging our Paths’ Conference at Concordia University in Montreal, Feb 2020, ‘In it for the long haul: Experiences as a community journalism trainer’
- Award Winner (Trainer/Supervisor) Outstanding Work by Indigenous Youth Reporters, 2019, Mushkego Lowland Advocates ‘Inadequate Mental Health Services with Cst. Alex Lewis’, Issued by Journalists for Human Rights in partnership with Royal Bank of Canada
- Film Shortlist, 2018 World Nomads Film Scholarship, ‘Courage Still”
- Screenings: 2018 Atlantic International Film Festival Youth Program, 2018 Sick Kids Foundation’s Vids for SickKids & 2019 Halifax Black Film Festival. ‘Constant Contact’, 2018, Co-Director/Co-Producer, Deep Rooted Productions
- Best Animation, CTV Best In Shorts, 2009, ‘An Inconvenient Crush’
Other related experience:
- Program Selected, Journalism Content Creator Program, 2025-2026, Canadian Journalism Foundation, awarded $10,000 for ‘In Support of the Missing North’
- Program Selection, Solutions Journalism Train-the-Trainer Program, 2026, Solutions Journalism Network
- Program Selection, Northern Canada Producers Training Launcher, 2025, NWT Professional Media Association/Access Canada/Canadian Media Fund
View Karli’s full resume here.