Yasmin Elayat
Yasmin Elayat is an Emmy-award winning immersive director and Co-Founder at Scatter. Scatter is recognized for pioneering Volumetric Filmmaking through its original volumetric film productions and its AR/VR creativity tools. Scatter’s first product Depthkit is the most widely used toolkit for accessible volumetric video capture.
Yasmin directed the Emmy award-winning Zero Days VR (Sundance 2017) a documentary about cyber warfare and the Stuxnet virus, which won the Emmy for Original Approaches: Documentary. Yasmin co-directed the Changing Same (Sundance 2021) where Episode 1 won “Best Immersive Narrative” at Tribeca and is nominated for a News and Documentary Emmy.
Yasmin’s work has won multiple awards and exhibited at various festivals including Sundance, Tribeca, SIGGRAPH, Festival de Cannes, and the World Economic Forum. Yasmin is a United States Artists 2020 Fellow and a Sundance 2021-2022 IDP Art of Practice Fellow. Yasmin sits on the inaugural Peabody Awards Interactive Board of Jurors.