Aayas Dhoj Joshi is a documentary filmmaker and cinematographer from Kathmandu, Nepal, based in New York City. His work is rooted in solutions-focused environmental storytelling: films about communities meeting ecological change with resilience and care.

Aayas’ work spans from Indigenous-led buffalo conservation in the Yellowstone ecosystem and with the Menominee Nation, to disaster recovery in western North Carolina and Lahaina, to right whale surveys off the New England coast and glacial loss in the Everest region of the Himalayas.

Aayas has contributed to projects featured or forthcoming on HBO, Hulu, National Geographic, NATURE on PBS, PBS NC, PBS NewsHour, Bloomsbury Publishing, and at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP29). He is the first two-time winner of the White House News Photographers Association Student Videographer of the Year; the 2026 Hearst National Champion in Multimedia; and a Gold winner at College Photographer of the Year.

Aayas is a 2026 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a recipient of the fully-funded Morehead-Cain Scholarship and was named the Hussman School of Journalism’s Outstanding Graduating Senior in Journalism.

Brooklyn-Based // Travel Ready
+1 (984) 758-2095
aayas@aayasdjoshi.com