People


Dan Chambers
Co-Founder and Creative Director
Since starting Blink with Justine, Dan has Executive Produced a range of productions. Factual specials: Woman Raised By Monkeys, Real Noah’s Ark, Titanic: The New Evidence, The Lion Cub From Harrods, The Last Days of Jesus, When Boris Met Dave, Milliband of Brothers, The Sliver Pharaoh, Nazi Titanic, The World’s Biggest Beasts. Factual series: four seasons of Treasures Decoded (also known as Secrets), five series of Real Stories, two series of Raised Human, Monty Don’s Italian and Paradise Gardens, Super Skyscrapers, Nazi Secrets Files, two series of World’s Top 5, Volatile Earth, Missing Evidence, and Ancients Behaving Badly. Documentaries: Britain’s Fattest Women, Britain’s Biggest Hoarders. Cookery series: Mexican Food Made Simple, Chinese Food In Minutes, and two series of Korean Food Made Simple. Factual entertainment series: The Joy of Techs, and Driving Wars. And Wildlife: Meet The Sloths, Meet Orangutans, Meet The Penguins, Wild in Australia (20 hours), Arabian Inferno (10 hours).
Before forming Blink, Dan was Channel 5’s Director of Programmes from 2003 to 2006 where he was responsible for all the channel’s output including Banged Up Abroad, The Gadget Show, The Hotel Inspector, The Farm, Suburban Shootout, Build A New Life In the Country, and Cosmetic Surgery Live.
From 2001 to 2003, he was C5’s Controller of Factual where he created the RTS award-winning history strand, Revealed, and commissioned World War I in Colour, Pompeii Live, Kings & Queens, and feature shows Britain’s Worst Driver, and Dream Holiday Home From 1997 to 2001 he was Science Commissioner at C4 where he created the long running strand Secrets of the Dead, and commissioned Escape from Colditz. Private Lives of the Pharaohs, and the reality show Lost. He was also the co-commissioner of the first series of Big Brother. Dan graduated from Oxford University in 1991, and began in TV as a researcher on current affairs shows including Panorama and Dispatches. He went on to direct films for the Channel 4 science strand Equinox, including Sun Storm and Russian Roulette. He is a Governor of the London Film School.


Justine Kershaw
Co-Founder and Creative Director
Justine started her career in television news, working in Romania, Moscow, Turkey, Slovenia and The Gulf. In 1992 she traded warzones for wildlife at the BBC’s Natural History Unit, where she produced a range of popular and blue-chip documentaries. Justine went on to direct and produce on the celebrity wildlife series ‘In the Wild’ for PBS, working with John Cleese, Ewan McGregor, Holly Hunter, Whoopi Goldberg and Richard Dreyfus. She also devised, directed and series produced the hit wildlife soap Monkey Business for ITV’s Granada and Executive Produced programmes for Channel 4, Natgeo, Discovery and PBS including Journey of Man and Secrets of The Dead. In 2002 Justine made a foray into broadcasting as commissioning editor of factual programming and was responsible for over 200 hours of programming including Extraordinary People, The Gadget Show, and The Big Question.
Since starting Blink Films with Dan in 2007, Justine has produced several series and specials including RTS nominated The Great Sperm Race, BAFTA winning Mummifying Alan and Netflix special The Creative Brain with David Eagleman. Mst recently she has created a new history format for the BBC called Unforgotten and a ‘chimpanzee soap’ called Meet the Chimps for National Geographic and Disney+ – both currently in production.
Justine has won several awards including 2 EMMYs, a Peabody, an RTS and a BAFTA.


Laura Jones
Creative Director
Laura Jones is a BAFTA & RTS award-winning Executive Producer working across non-scripted content.
With over two decades experience in developing and securing TV commissions, and working with high-profile talent, Laura has taken numerous series from concept to greenlight and delivery for major streamer networks and broadcasters in the UK, North America and international markets.
Prior to her role at Blink, Laura co-founded Antidote Productions, a factual production company specialising in talent-led and access-driven shows, where she also raised VC funding for the company.


Matt Fleming
Group Finance Director
Matt joined Blink Films as Group Finance Director in January 2018, having spent the previous three years as Head of Finance at Dragonfly Film and Television productions. Matt has overall responsibility for all financial matters at Blink Films and the other companies within the Tin Roof Media group, working closely with the Group Operations Director to maximise profitability and provide the commercial support that the business needs to make continued award-winning programming.Qualifying as a chartered accountant in 2007, Matt previously worked in the audit and commercial property sectors before moving into broadcast media.


James Pope
Head of Development
Since joining Blink in 2016, James has developed more than a hundred hours of TV for all the major broadcasters and streamers, dug for lost treasure in the Egyptian desert, and attempted to X-ray the planet. Before Blink he was at DSP for several years, where he helped build a Grierson-winning bionic man. And before that he was a student on Imperial College’s science communication programme.


Lesley Davies
Development Executive


Alice Bennett-Leyh
Head of Rights Management & Distribution
Alice joined the Blink team in April 2023 having spent the previous 13 years working with senior teams at Lambent Productions and other factual indies as a Rights Manager and Archive Producer. Prior to that, Alice was in acquisitions management roles for distribution group DRG and formats specialist Zeal Entertainment. Alice is responsible for Blink’s rights management and works closely with the Group Operations Director and senior management in the operation of Blink’s distribution business with a particular focus on identifying commercial opportunities and building revenue from IP.


Ashleigh Jerman
Production & Social Media Assistant
Ashleigh has been at Tin Roof for 2 years and acts as a central point for the Head of Production and Production Managers as an across the board production assistant. She additionally aids senior management in personal assistance and general office administrative support. She also oversees coordination of Blink’s social media channels, website, publicity output, and applications to awards.