Blast! Films was established in 1994 for the production of
high-profile, distinctive documentaries about compelling human stories around
the globe. Documentaries are still at the heart of what we do, but as we've
grown, we've come to work in a range of different genres particularly drama
documentary, opera, TV drama and feature films.
Whatever we do, we try to make sure that our core values remain the same. We
think the best film and television bears the imprint of a vision and our most
memorable work bears this out.
Steve McQueen’s multi award winning film Hunger about Bobby Sands, Penny Woolcock’s opera The Death of Klinghoffer and our recent documentary series about children starting senior school, My New Best Friend all attest to our commitment to authorship and integrity.
We want to continue to put the film-maker at the heart of what we do. We
want to continue making drama and television that innovates and breaks
boundaries and plays at the heart of the television schedule. We want our work
to be popular, noisy, honest - and original.
Edmund Coulthard
Managing Director, Director and Executive Producer
Edmund established Blast! Films in 1994 with I’ll Be Your Mirror, a documentary about the photographer Nan Goldin which won Best Documentary at the Montreal and Melbourne film festivals and was nominated for the Prix Italia. He has since been awarded the BAFTA for Best New Director for the BBC 2 drama series Tales from Pleasure Beach, the Grierson Award for Best Drama Documentary for The Year London Blew Up and, in 2007, the BAFTA for Best Director for the BBC 2 feature length thriller, Soundproof.
Claire Bosworth
Head of Production
Having joined Blast! in late 2003 as a freelance Production Manager on BBC2s If…We don’t stop Eating, Claire has found her home at Blast! Films as Head of Production. Previous credits include Mind of a Millionaire (BBC2), Fat Plague (Channel4), Fat Girls and Feeders (Channel4) and several entertainment and travel series for ITV and Channel 5.
Amy Flanagan
Specialist Factual Producer
Amy first joined Blast to produce the controversial ‘Animals’ for the launch of More 4. She went on to produce the Grierson-nominated drama doc ‘Last Days of the Raj’ (C4), factual drama ‘Sex, the City and Me’ starring Sarah Parish (BBC2), ‘The Artful Codgers’ (C4 Cutting Edge) and ‘Victorian Sex Explorer’ with Rupert Everett (C4). She has recently produced Penny Woolcock’s latest feature, the hip hop musical ‘1 Day’ (Film 4 and Screen WM) to be released 2009. Previous credits include the BAFTA-winning ‘Feltham Sings’.
Grant McKee
Executive Producer
Grant is a freelance Executive Producer who has been closely associated since exec'ing Tina Goes Shopping in 1999. His Blast! credits include The Year London Blew Up, Brinks-Mat: The Greatest Heist, Beautiful Young Minds, A Very British Sex Scandal and numerous one-off and documentary series. Before Blast! Grant was for many years at Yorkshire Television where he was series editor of the acclaimed ITV documentary series First Tuesday and later Director of Programmes.