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About us

Yaz Ellis, Dream Wild Films

Yaz Ellis

Co-founder & Director

Jack Mifflin, Dream Wild Films

Jack Mifflin

Co-founder & Director

We are Yaz and Jack, award-winning wildlife filmmakers and cinematographers based in Vienna. We founded Dream Wild Films in order to create impactful and important films, focusing on how wildlife is adapting to and challenged by human impact.​​​

We specialise in creating films about Viennese and Austrian wildlife stories, that reveal fascinating secrets of the animals we are lucky enough to live alongside. Our films about European beavers, European ground squirrels and Alpine marmots have won multiple awards including Jackson Wild, United Nations’ World Wildlife Day, National Geographic’s Wild Pitch, Green Screen and Innsbruck Nature Film Festival.

In 2024, we released our film Marmots on Toast which was featured in British Cinematographer magazine and won Wildscreen x National Geographic's Wild Pitch, and Green Screen Film Festival. We also wrapped 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 just how biodiverse the city is.

 

This year we are working as the directors of photography on a new urban wildlife documentary for ORF Universum. We are currently filming For Deer Life, a film about Austria’s life-saving rescues of deer fawn and the winner of Jackson Wild's My World Film Grant. ​

With our combined skills and experience, we love all aspects of the filmmaking  process - from development, writing, cinematography and editing. Together, we are an unstoppable team. We have created films together for over 6 years and due to the strong trust and understanding we share, we instinctively synchronise our filming to create sequences quickly and efficiently. We are so grateful that together we are able to spend our days filming wildlife and telling the stories of the weird and wonderful creatures we are so lucky to share our planet with!

We have been generously supported in our filmmaking by Brian from Wild Motion Docs, LAOWA, Jackson Wild, Amberjack Films, Schoolyard Films, RED and the Bristol team at Picture Shop Post-Production. 

Selection of Awards

My World Film Grant (Jackson Wild) - Winner 2024

Jackson Wild Media Awards - Cinematography Short Form Winner 2022 

Green Screen Festival - Short Film for Kids Winner 2024

Green Screen Festival - Short Film for Kids Winner 2023

Innsbruck Nature Film Festival - Short Film for Kids Winner 2023

Wildscreen x National Geographic Wild Pitch - Winner 2022 

United Nations' World Wildlife Day - Micro-Movie Winner 2022

Jackson Wild Media Awards - Finalist 2021, 2022 & 2024

Wild Earth Oceania - Short Film Winner 2023

Big Water Film Festival - Young Filmmaker Award 2023

International Nature and Environmental Protection Film Festival - Winner 2023

Wildlife Film Festival Rotterdam - Finalist 2023 & 2024

Dream Wild in the field

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