About

Jelena Krivosic (she/her/they) is an Impact Producer and PhD researcher located in Bristol.

They are part of the first cohort of the BAFTA albert Impact Producer Accelerator Programme. As an Impact Producer, they aim to build campaigns to tackle the issue at the heart of a film or TV programme to directly create real-world change. They work with a production team to:

Define key impact goals,
Develop an impact campaign,
Implement and evaluate an impact strategy.

With their experience, they specialise in:

Climate and nature storytelling,
Audience and community engagement,
Education and research.

They are currently a PhD student at the University of the West of England, Bristol within the School of Arts. They are part of the Digital Cultures Research Centre, Screen Research Group and Science Communication Unit. They are expanding their MSc dissertation project, which researched how wildlife filmmaking practices shaped the climate stories told in Natural History Documentaries. They are particularly focused on how co-creation with wildlife filmmakers and audiences could help tell more diverse stories about climate change, biodiversity loss and social justice, to encourage audiences’ active participation in behaviour and systems change initiatives.

What they are most curious about, within their work and research, is how media engages the audience with climate justice, how it cuts through polarisation within society and the overwhelm of global crises, and how it inspires audiences to actively engage in climate action.

Education

UWE, Bristol – 2023 ongoing
PhD – College of Arts, Technology and Environment

Centre for Alternative Technology – 2020 to 2022
MSc Sustainability and Ecology – Distinction

University of Westminster – 2013 to 2016
BA Film and Television Production – 2:1

Arts University of Bournemouth – 2012 to 2013
Media, Art and Design Foundation Degree – Distinction

Employment

UWE, Bristol
Research Associate
Go West! 2.5 Bristol’s Film and Television Industries (2025)
Report: https://www.uwe.ac.uk/research/centres-and-groups/screen-research/go-west

Associate Lecturer
MSc – Communicating Campaigns module (2025)
BA Media Communication – Communicating for Change module, Campaign Contexts module (2025)

Guest Lecturer
MSc Science Communication – Wildlife Filmmaking module
Wildlife documentaries: Telling stories of climate and ecological justice? (2024, 2025)

Guest Lecturer
MSc Environmental Communication – Communications campaigns module
What do Natural History documentaries really tell us about climate and ecological justice? (2024, 2025)

Centre for Alternative Technology
Guest Lecturer
MSc Behaviour Change – Communication for transformational change module:
What do screen-natures really tell us about climate and ecological justice? (2023, 2024)

Guest Lecturer
Critical Discourse Analysis: How to. Research examples breakdown. (2022)

University of Westminster
Guest Lecturer
Professional Development: Production Coordinating for Natural History. (2019)

Kew Gardens
Workshop Facilitator
Youth Explorers: Climate communication, mental health and storytelling. (2022, 2023, 2024)

Publications

Spicer, A., and Krivosic, J. (2025). Go West! 2.5 Bristol’s Film And Television Industries. Bristol: UWE, Bristol.
To read the report: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/15313568/go-west-25-bristols-film-and-television-industries

Conferences

MeCCSA 2025
Paper: Attenborough: hero, environmental advocate, climate action influencer?

Critical Slow Television Conference 2024
Panel – Representation of Climate Change Stories
Paper: Is the Natural History documentary genre able to engage audiences with stories about climate change?
In response to the theme: Sustainable Development Goal – 17 Responsible Production and Consumption

The Flowing Image 2024: The Ocean On-Screen
Panel – Representing More-Than-Human (Relations) in Documentaries
Paper: The impact of Natural History documentary’s spectacular ‘Virtual Nature’ on audiences’ sense of responsibility and engagement with the global
crises?

ASLE-UKI 2024: Arts of Noticing: Attention and the Environment
Panel – Resisting Violence, Making Change
Paper: Virtually connected? How could watching Natural History documentaries affect audiences’ sense of nature connectedness and desire to engage with the entangled global crises?

Community, Arts & Activism

Reel Nature Film Club: Environmental community film club (2022 – Ongoing)
Keynsham Community Screening of ‘One Last Farm‘ – Part of Somerset Food Trail Festival 2025 – Co-Organiser/Facilitator

Of Walking on Thin Ice: Documentary Walking-Screening (2023)
Centre for Alternative Technology, Brunel Tunnel – Walking-Screening Event Organiser/Facilitator
Guardian article, Film review

Coat of Hopes: London to Glasgow (2021), Glasgow to Edinburgh (2022)
Coat Guardian – Project Management Support

Camino to COP 26: Walking from London to Glasgow (Sep-Nov 2021)
Leek’s Big Green Weekend Festival – Organiser, Workshop Facilitator, Storytelling Event Manager
Guardian article