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BLINK PRODUCTIONS blinkprods.com 181 Wardour


Street, London, W1F 8WZ t 020 7494 0747 chairman/ founder James Studholme md/ ep Blink Paul Weston md/ep Blinkink Bart Yates credits Money Calm Bull by Nick Ball for Engine/Money Super Market; Childline – Nobody is Normal by Catherine Prowse for The Gate/ Childline


Unsurprisingly, Blink reports “a


ANOTHER FILM CO anotherfilmcompany.com


22 Dean St, London, W1D 3RX t 07956 847 592 partner/eps Tim Marshall, Simon Monhemius new business Debby Eden credits Socially Distancing Teapot by Steve Reeves for Lucky Generals/Yorkshire Tea; Virtual Venture by Declan Lowney for Engine/Santander


very challenging three months during the first lock down” and then “from July onwards we had a very busy period up until the end of December” but producing work “was still 100% more challenging than in 2019.” Luckily this was offset to some extent by “our longer form projects with Blink Industries and jobs running through the Blinkink studio were able to continue.”


BANG TV bang.tv


Floor 3, 6-8 Bonhill Street, London, EC2A 4BX t 020 7096 0968 ep Jeremy McWilliams producer Tom Whitehead credits UCL by James Lovick for Rational/Microsoft Teams; Global Visual Identity by Brian Williams for JWT International/Bridgestone


Moneysupermarket Money Calm Bull


CHIEF PRODUCTIONS chief.tv


The Longhouse, Michigan Ave, Mediacity UK, M50 2GY t 0161 832 6001 ceo Colin Offland md Martin Offland director Marc Ingham head of post Ben McFarlane credits Iceland – Christmas by Marc Ingham for Iceland Frozen Foods; Tradition is Boring by Ben Tonge for Foot Asylum


DARK ENERGY FILMS darkenergyfilms.com


2nd Floor, 74 Margaret Street, London, W1W 8SU t 07976 257 431 md/founder/ep Matt Brown ep Anna Allgrove co founder Lucy Brown credits Landsec Famously Bad by Simon Levene for VCCP/Landsec; Switch Stories by Caswell Coggins for Engine/CASS


Yorkshire Tea Socially Distancing Teapot


Microsoft Teams UCL


Foot Asylum Tradition is Boring


Landsec Famously Bad


CAVIAR LONDON caviar.tv


75 Newman Street, London, W1T 3EN t 020 3219 7960 md/ep Sorcha Shepherd ep Ellie Goodwin hop Neil Cray credits When Dating Met 2020 by Cloe Bailly for Brooklyn Brothers/ Bumble; Christmas Is On by Keith Schofield for Deliveroo


Caviar describes the first lockdown as “scary. The pandemic brought our industry to a total standstill at one point, and none of us knew when we could shoot again. Thankfully


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with the help of Steve Davies and the APA though, by Q3 of 2020 clients were spending money again and heading us all on the road to recovery.” Despite the difficulties of 2020, Caviar says a big positive was “not having to let any of our staff go during Covid and coming out the other side as a stronger team.”


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ARTS & SCIENCES artsandsciences.com


Partner / Executive Producer James Bland Partner / Executive Producer Mal Ward head of sales Elise Jeanrenaud credits Bud Light Lemonade Last Year’s Lemons by Mike Warzin for Wieden Kennedy/Bud Light; M&M’s Superbowl Come Together by Matt Aselton for BBDO/M&M’s


US production house Arts & Sciences opened its London office at the tail end of 2020 with ex Blink Productions EP and Partner, James Bland at


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the helm. Arts & Sciences London says it had an “OK business year despite Covid” but that business came in “fits and starts. Not great. Mostly fits.” It says the pandemic made it “leaner, meaner and fighting fit. Covid taught us what you really need and we can dispense with the rest.”


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