BRANDY YANCHYK is an award winning independent documentary filmmaker and journalist.

Since 2009, Brandy Yanchyk has produced sixteen documentaries and thirteen television series. Her work spans a broad range of social and factual genres.
Since 2017 Brandy’s travel documentary series Brandy Yanchyk Sees the World, Seeing Canada and Seeing the USA have aired on PBS stations across the USA, on Create TV, on Amazon Prime and on AVOD channels and on airlines around the world.

Brandy Yanchyk has reported for BBC World’s The Travel Show covering stories in Canada, Finland, Australia and New Zealand for a global audience of 72 million viewers.

She has also worked as a Broadcast Journalist at BBC World TV and the BBC World Service in London, England.

Brandy was a News Reporter for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in the Toronto, Edmonton and London, UK bureaus.

In 2014/2015 Brandy worked as a Statement Gatherer collecting the stories of Indian Residential School Survivors for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.

Brandy’s radio documentaries have aired on CBC’s The Current, CBC’s Dispatches, Public Radio International’s The World, Deutsche Welle Radio and the BBC World Service.

Click here to see Brandy Yanchyk’s demo reel from the BBC’s travel show Fast Track.
Click here to see Brandy Yanchyk’s BBC Travel Show stories.

Education:

Brandy Yanchyk has a Bachelor of Applied Arts in Radio and Television Arts from TMU (formally Ryerson University) in Toronto, Ontario. She also has a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a Specialization in Theatre Performance from Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec.

Brandy Yanchyk is a Fellow of The Royal Canadian Geographical Society and a member of The Documentary Organization of Canada (DOC).

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