Yaz is an actor, emerging writer, director and producer working between London and her home county of Cornwall, UK. She's currently an Associate Producer in HETV for Netflix, as well as serving as a board member for Screen Cornwall.  She is developing her own slate of original film and TV projects. 

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Her passion is telling intimate, emotionally complex, primarily but not exclusively, female-led stories, that make you giggle, punches you in the gut and then makes you cry.  

 

She recently graduated from the Channel 4 New Writers Scheme 2025-26, was a part of the cohort for the BBC Writersroom Cornish Voices 2021, and was finalist & mentee for the Channel 4 Screenwriting Course 2023.

Her debut short MERMAIDS, inspired by her personal experiences, was CrowdFunded and then backed by BFI NETWORK, World Premiering at the BAFTA qualifying festival Underwire, where she was nominated for Best Directing. ​

 

Yaz began her filmmaking journey interning for numerous independent production companies, and working as a script reader for clients including BAFTA Rocliffe and Vertigo Films. She cut her teeth in production working as Director's Assistant on THE CROWN, and Executive Producer & Lead Director's Assistant on QUEEN CHARLOTTE: A BRIDGERTON STORY and BRIDGERTON Season 3 & 4. 

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She was named as one of Film London's Lodestars of 2022. And selected for the Widening the Lens talent scheme run by Encounters Film Festival, Bristol, in 2017. ​

 

Yaz has a BA in English Literature and Theatre from Royal Holloway, University of London.

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For acting, Yazmin studied at the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York and the Meisner technique in London. She has performed in several London fringe theatre productions and short films, including LA LUNE FOLLE, opposite BAFTA winning Dame Siân Phillips. 

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In the non-fiction space, Yaz's work has featured on Huffington Post, Elite Daily and HelloGiggles. She founded the award-nominated feminist collective blog aliljoy.com. After several years in the blogosphere, Yaz continually found herself returning to her first love, narrative film, and realised she could be more truthful through fiction. 

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