Eli Jean Tahchi is a Lebanese Canadian filmmaker based in Montreal, Quebec.
[1] He is most noted as a two-time Prix Iris nominee for Best Short Documentary, receiving nods at the 24th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2022 for Sometimes I Wish I Was on a Desert Island (Y’a des fois où j’aimerais me trouver sur une île déserte),[2] and at the 26th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2024 for Outside Center.
[4] Sometimes I Wish I Was on a Desert Island, about the social isolation of LGBTQ Muslims, was made as part of The Curve, a National Film Board of Canada series of short films on people's experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada.
Outside Centre, about a Jamaican immigrant finding community with a gay rugby team after immigrating to Germany, was made as a student film in his studies at INIS, but became the first INIS student film ever to be acquired for commercial distribution.
[5] In 2024 he created La Dernière communion, a comedy-drama web series about three Roman Catholic priests rebuilding their lives after retiring from the priesthood.