Yasmin Elayat

Egypt

Yasmin Elayat is an immersive director whose work was showcased at Sundance, Tribeca, SIGGRAPH, MOMI, Festival de Cannes and the World Economic Forum. She directed, wrote and produced the Emmy award-winning Zero Days VR (2017), and co-directed the Emmy-nominated Changing Same (2021), which won “Best Immersive Narrative” at Tribeca Film Festival. Other titles include 18 Days In Egypt (2011).

Previously, Yasmin was co-founder at Scatter, pioneers of volumetric filmmaking and creators of Depthkit. She is a United States Artists 2020 Fellow and Sundance Art of Practice Fellow, and sits on the Peabody Awards Interactive Board of Jurors.