Natalia Laska is a Polish-Australian documentary filmmaker, journalist and researcher. Her work combines long-form observation, journalism and qualitative research to explore culture and identity with a particular interest in language, music and memory.

Her latest feature documentary, The Piano Tuner, premiered at the 2026 Sydney Film Festival, receiving the Runner-Up Audience Award for Best Australian Documentary, and has since been selected for CinefestOZ and the Adelaide Film Festival.

Before moving into documentary filmmaking, Natalia worked as a journalist in Poland, publishing in Polityka, Newsweek, Magazyn Gazety Wyborczej and Elle, numerous travel magazines as well as in German publications including Frauenrat, taz and Polen+. She also worked on talk shows for both public and commercial television broadcasters.

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She holds a Bachelor of Justice Studies from the University of Tasmania, an academic background that continues to inform her research and documentary practice.

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With a background in European print and television journalism and a degree in Justice Studies, her work combines long-form observation, journalism and qualitative research to explore culture and identity with a particular interest in language, music and memory.

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“It really is a very odd business that all of us, to varying degrees, have music in our heads.”

— Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

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