Production Team

Rhett Cutrell is an award winning wildlife and outdoor adventure film producer, bringing Hollywood-grade productions to the most remote regions on the planet. His objective: expose wild stories that have true heart and capture their unique point of view in a way that does justice to their inherent power. After working on exhilarating productions for over 17 years, on six continents, and collaborating with industry giants like National Geographic, Destination British Columbia, and Discovery Channel, Rhett has gained the required knowledge to develop truly immersive experiences in the most difficult of production settings.

From a very early childhood Zuzana was fascinated by nature. Her adventures took place in the forests around Brno at the beginning, but thanks to her wonderful parents, she had the chance to visit places on the other continents as early as primary school. This hobby started to be her main interest in life and she eventually studied Zoology at the Masaryk University. She had always been interested in working with children and began a multi-year teaching program for environmental studies at Lipka (educational institution for environmental training). Later she finished Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Biology at Masaryk University. In addition to making wildlife films with her husband, Matej, she currently combines her love for nature and children with a teaching job at the forest kindergarten Medlánka in Brno.

Since Matej was a child, he was reading the zoological encyclopedia and dreaming about expeditions into the African wilderness. He studied at the Masaryk University in Brno and became a Doctor of Zoology in 2022. Currently, wildlife filmmaking is his full-time job since 2020, thanks to the Living Zoology YouTube channel he founded with his wife, Zuzana. According to Matej, there’s a big potential in projects focused on less popular animals, such as snakes, lizards, or frogs. Snakes are his biggest passion and he specializes in producing documentaries and educational videos about them. Venomous snakes are often feared by many people, but they have an important role in many ecosystems and they are fabulous!