About Me

Elise is a Videographer who has trained with: the BBC, Raindance Film School, Documentary Film Makers School and the Wildeye International School of Wildlife Film-making. During a career spanning more than 20 years, she has been involved with shooting corporate events, action sports, multi-camera live TV operations, live music events, short films, crowdfunding campaigns and more. An environmental activist, Elise takes a focus on geopolitics, indigenous rights, and cultural heritage, and creates content that aims to influence positive social change.

Elise has traveled to over 30 countries, learning, along the way, about the dynamics of living in different local communities. Yet from the expanse of places she has frequented, there is one that remains closest to her heart: Peru.
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Since arriving in Cusco in 2012, she embarked on a 6 -month stint as the manager of the South American Explorers Club: a non-profit organisation providing sustainable travel information and education to those traversing the contours of this magnificent continent.
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Elise said: “I have learned some invaluable lessons in Peru. And one of them stems from the fact indigenous cultures have the potential to reconnect us to our awareness and to our collective responsibility to preserve the natural world for the betterment of humanity in modernity.”
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In 2012, Elise began working with the filmmaker, Seti Gershberg. The plan was to create a video for a crowdfunding campaign to help raise the funds to finance the film productions: ‘Q’ero Mystics of Peru’ and ‘Ayahuasca Nature’s Greatest Gift’, both part of the online series, ’Path of the Sun’.
Shortly after the culmination of this project, Elise went on to live with a Shipibo tribe family deep in the Peruvian Amazon. It was here that she helped to set up a non-profit organisation, ‘Non-Bai’ to protect their ancestral lands and preserve the Shipibo culture.
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In 2014, her crowdfunding video for ‘The Inti Eco Lodge’ in Iquitos, Peru raised over $10,000 to build this educational wellness centre. The funds raised also helped to reforest this region, which was decimated by illegal logging. Today, the retreat teaches people from around the world to live sustainably and in harmony with their surroundings.
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Other past campaigns have included the launch of ‘The Himalayan Farm Project’, a centre for ecological awareness, which shares indigenous knowledge to bring people together for an exchange of ideas and practices that ensure sustainability and well-being.