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Danny Horan

CCO

Danny joined Blast! Films in 2022. He came from Channel 4 where he was Head of Factual commissioning, responsible for titles such as Jade: The Reality Star That Changed Britain, 24 Hours in Police Custody, Emergency, Jeremy Kyle: Death on Daytime, Grenfell: The Untold Story, The Dog House and Grayson’s Art Club. Prior to this, Danny was a Documentaries commissioner at the BBC, responsible for award-winning Hospital, Ambulance, Louis Theroux series and Reported Missing. Danny’s background is programme making having previously series produced and directed several series and films.

Claire Bosworth

CEO

Claire Bosworth joined Blast! Films in 2004. As Head of Production, she was responsible for managing Blast’s growing roster of award-winning programming across multiple genres from documentary to drama. Subsequently promoted to Managing Director, she has overseen every commercial and financial aspect of Blast’s production output as well as representing the company as its key contractual negotiator with broadcasters: the company has exceeded a doubling in size during her tenure.

In her role as CEO, Claire works alongside Blast’s CCO, Danny Horan, building on Blast’s reputation for creative excellence within the domestic and global market.

Dominic Bolton

Head of Production

Dominic joined Blast! Films in August 2021 as Production Executive overseeing projects with Netflix, Sky, Channel 4 & the BBC.

Prior to working at Blast! Dominic worked at Zinc Media managing a wide variety of content for both UK and US broadcasters. Organising shoots in hostile environments such as North East Nigeria for the Emmy award winning ‘Stolen Daughters: Kidnapped by Boko Haram’ HBO feature doc to liasing with the RAF for the ITV obs doc series ‘Fighter Pilot: The Real Top Gun’.

Dominic was made Head of Production in January 2022 to oversee the development, management, and delivery of all Blast projects.

Tanya Winston

Creative Director

Tanya joined Blast! Films in 2017. She has directed and produced a wide range of documentaries over the years, specialising mainly in observational films, but also working across high-profile and award-winning, specialist factual & factual entertainment series, from Your Life In Their Hands and The Hospital, to 16 Kids and Counting. She developed her skills as a core team member on the BBC’s long running observational documentary strand, One Life, including directing one of the highest rating films in the strand, and its resulting spin off series. More recently she was Series Editor on Blast’s The Secret Life of the Zoo (Channel 4), setting the tone and style in the edit. Her series Three Wives, One Husband, has also been critically acclaimed. Tanya became Creative Director in 2020.

Sharon Foley

Head of UK Development

Having spent several years in production as a producer in Ireland, Australia and the UK, Sharon moved to the Blast! development team in 2019. Since then, she’s been helping drive the development slate at Blast! and has secured several commissions with major UK broadcasters over the last two years. Having worked in documentaries, specialist factual and factual entertainment, she brings a multi-genre approach to the slate and has a keen focus on the UK and SVOD markets.

Poonam Odedra

Executive Producer

Poonam has produced some of the most successful and critically acclaimed factual series on British television and has a reputation for navigating sensitive stories in difficult areas of access. Her credits include Ambulance (BBC One), 24 hours in A&E (Channel 4), 24 Hours In Police Custody (Channel 4) and The Met: Policing London (BBC One). At Blast, she oversees the award-winning Forensics: The Real CSI (BBC Two) and other projects for British broadcasters and SVODs.

Sarah Spencer

Head of Popular Factual

Sarah joined Blast! Films in 2016 and is based out of our Brighton office ‘Blast! by the Sea’. Sarah has over 15 years’ experience of producing and directing series’, and executive producing a wide range of popular documentaries, formats and series’ across all major channels, including BAFTA nominated The Undateables and Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners (Channel 4), and Normal for Norfolk (BBC TWO).

Sacha Baveystock

Executive Producer

Sacha is an Emmy award winning and Bafta nominated executive producer with extensive experience delivering observational, popular and specialist factual documentaries across all the major broadcasters. Past credits include Little Angels, Can’t Take it With You, Horizon, Child of our Time Turning Twenty, The Prosecutors: Real Crime and Punishment and Climate Change: The Facts. She has worked at Blast since 2017, looking after successful returning series Reported Missing, as well as executive producing Generation Gifted, 999 What’s Your Emergency? and Secrets of the Museum.

Jules Wilson

Talent Executive

With 30 years industry experience as a factual programme maker and creative talent manager, Jules is passionate about nurturing talent and helping freelancers achieve exciting and fulfilling careers. She joined Blast! in 2017 and is the first point of contact for talent at all levels.

While developing and maintaining relationships with the best Directors, Producers and Executives, Jules is committed to bringing a new generation of culturally and socially diverse storytellers into the industry.

Lewis Harradine

Head of Finance

Lewis qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 2011 having gained experience working across a range of industries. Now Head of Finance at Blast, Lewis has also worked with Zodiak Media, Minnow Films, Blink Films and Bwark Productions, controlling the finances behind The Inbetweeners 2 movie. At Blast, Lewis oversees the finance function and leads the management reporting process, working closely with our Managing Director to ensure financial support backs strategic decisions.

Tom Hayes

Production Accountant

After studying at Bournemouth University, Tom joined Blast! Films in 2015 and supports the Production Accountants and Head of Finance in their roles.

Regie Gardener

Production Manager

Regie joined Blast! Films in 2012 as Office Manager, but it quickly became apparent that she had a knack for production. She’s since gone on to production manage several returning drama-documentary series’, programmes for the BBC, Channel 4 and Discovery, along with overseeing a new ambitious BBC series being shot across 3 years.

Christina Merze

Office Manager

Having previously worked in production across feature films such as Paddington, The Two Faces of January and Avengers: Age of Ultron, Christina took up the mantle of Office Manager in 2015 and now overlooks the daily running of the offices.

Abigail Farrens

Production Manager

Abigail joined Blast! Films as a coordinator in 2016 to work on Forbidden: Dying for love (Discovery) but quickly went on to manage some of Blast’s biggest productions including The Secret Life of the Zoo (Channel 4) and 999: What’s Your Emergency? (Channel 4). More recently Abi has worked on the first series of Freeze: Skating on the Edge (BBC3).

Nancy Rushforth

Production Manager

Nancy joined Blast! Films in 2017 to work on 999: What’s Your Emergency? (Channel 4). Nancy has since gone on to production manage some of Blast’s most popular series including Reported Missing, The Big Hospital Experiment and Forensics: The Real CSI (BBC).

Megan Taylor

Production Manager

Megan joined Blast! Films in 2011 for the first series of 999: What’s Your Emergency? (Channel 4). After furthering her career at various production companies, Megan returned to Blast in 2013. She has since overseen Blast’s UK & US development slates, along with working across some of Blast’s biggest series’, including The Secret Life of the Zoo, The Catch and The Supervet (C4).