A force for nature.

Our team brings decades of experience working at the intersection of mainstream film and television, impact production and conservation.

Nature

the Boss

Nature is the world around us in all its untamed beauty and complexity—think oceans, mountains, forests, and the creatures that call them home. It’s a vast network of living and non-living elements, from towering trees and deep blue skies to delicate ecosystems that keep everything in balance. Nature thrives on powerful cycles like the flow of water and the carbon cycle, quietly working in the background to sustain life. Beyond her essential role, nature is a source of inspiration, inspiring art, science, and adventure. It’s where we find both tranquillity and wonder, deeply woven into our own lives and wellbeing.

Cherique

Founder & Director

Cherique Pohl founded IMPACTWILD to harness the power of film and television to protect and preserve our planet’s incredible biodiversity. Raised in South Africa, she spent over 15 years working in the UK’s wildlife television industry. Her career started at National Geographic, where she worked in distribution, sales and co-productions. From there, she spent over a decade at the BBC Natural History Unit, focusing on wildlife conservation programming - work that took her to some of the world’s most remote and challenging regions. Today, as one of the few impact producers globally focused on wildlife conservation, Cherique is helping to drive mainstream film and television toward integrating impact production effectively. She is also a proud member of the Doc Society’s Global Impact Producers Alliance.

Reina

Director of Impact & Education

Dr. Reina-Marie Loader has been conducting practice-based research for over a decade. Her work predominantly focuses on docudrama and documentary storytelling that promote movement building, reconciliation, human rights, and conservation. She completed her practice-based Ph.D. on the concept of “documemory” and the ethical representation of war trauma on screen. Her documentary experience in conservation is longstanding and she is the programme leader for the MA in Producing for Film and Television which, among other things, seeks to integrate impact producing as part of the students’ education and training. Reina has experience internationally in the promotion of human rights, having done a Masters at the University of Vienna before working in the field of children's rights for many years.