Award-winning broadcaster Ziya Tong is best known as the anchor of Daily Planet, Discovery Channel’s flagship science program. Her book The Reality Bubble was shortlisted for the prestigious RBC Taylor Prize in 2020, and won the Lane Anderson Prize for best science writing in Canada. Ziya’s latest film Plastic People: The Hidden Crisis of Microplastics, premiered at SXSW where it was selected as a top 10 staff favourite and profiled for its groundbreaking findings in The New York Times. It’s been called “an absolutely terrifying piece of detective work”, with Variety calling it “an essential state-of-our-world documentary” and naming it one of the best documentaries of 2024.
