I'm Yaz, an award-winning wildlife filmmaker and camerawoman specialising in Austrian
wildlife stories. Originally from the UK, I moved to Vienna when I fell in love with filming the European Hamsters that live wild in the city.

My films reveal fascinating secrets of Viennese and Austrian wildlife, and have won multiple awards including Jackson Wild (considered the Oscars of natural history filmmaking), United Nations’ World Wildlife Day and National Geographic’s Wild Pitch. I focus on how wildlife is adapting to and challenged by human impacts, which is reflected best in my film ‘Beavers About Town’, following a family of beavers as they navigate life in urban Vienna.

In 2024, I co-founded Dream Wild Films in order to create impactful and important wildlife films, focusing on the effects of humans on species that are often overlooked on our planet. Dream Wild's production debut 'Marmots on Toast' was the winner of Wildscreen x National Geographic's Wild Pitch and Greenscreen Film Festival. The making of this film was a featured article in British Cinematographer magazine.

Other highlights from 2024 include completing my work as the director of photography on Terra Mater Studio’s wildlife documentary ‘Wild Vienna’. After over two years of filming unique animal behaviour sequences in Vienna, the documentary aired on Servus TV in November and revealed how biodiverse the city is - a home to wild hamsters, ground squirrels, long-eared owls and beavers.

This year, I was awarded the My World Film Grant, and I am now directing 'For Deer Life', a film about Austria’s life-saving rescues of deer fawn. I am also currently working as the director of photography on a new urban wildlife documentary for ORF Universum. 

​​

​I have been lucky to gain generous support in my filmmaking from industry leaders RED, Wild Motion Docs, LAOWA, Jackson Wild, Picture Shop Post-Production, Amberjack Films and Schoolyard Films. 

​​

For project ideas, collaborations, more information or an up to date CV and showreel -

please contact me: yaz@dreamwildfilms.com