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Elena co-directed the award-winning feature documentary Coextinction, and has since worked on a range of acclaimed documentary films including Return to Rolwaling (2025), Crown Jewels (2024), Beyond the Green Veil (2023), and Food 2.0 (Netflix, 2023), alongside a collection of short and independent pieces.

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Her work blends storytelling with science, wonder, and lived experience—often spotlighting conservationists, innovators, adventurers, and the extraordinary natural world. She's worked independently and with some of the leading voices in documentary and natural history production. She's also worked for notable story focused brands such as The North Face, Patagonia, SeaLegacy, Picture Organic, Corona, and more.

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In her early 20s, she studied engineering and built businesses, but her storyteller roots run deep— back to childhood filmmaking and a wild curiousity fuelled by her father’s stories from his job at a zoo. Years later, documentary film became the medium that brought her full circle. That childhood sense of wonder continues to fuel her pursuit of stories and meaningful, creative projects that seek to reconnect us to the world, and to ourselves.

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She currently offers freelance production services and is developing her next independent projects, including Stay Curious, a series arriving on YouTube in 2025/26.

 

Alongside film, Elena is also working on long-form writing projects. In a world driven by short-form noise, she’s drawn to depth, complexity, and the enduring magic of slow storytelling.