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Yaz Ellis is an award-winning wildlife filmmaker and cinematographer; recognised by Jackson Wild, the American Society of Cinematographers,  and the United Nations.

Based in Vienna, Austria, her films reveal fascinating secrets of the Viennese and Austrian wildlife she has fallen in love with. Whilst focusing on showing how wildlife is adapting to and challenged by human impact.

Yaz is the 2024 My World Film Grant winner and is currently directing a film about Austria’s life-saving rescues of deer fawn. She is also working as the director of photography on a new urban wildlife documentary for ORF Universum. 

Find out more about Yaz.

Showreel 2024 
In 2024 I co-founded Dream Wild Films, an independent production company focused on natural history stories.
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