THIS IS OUR ETHOS
Don't F**k with Owls
The best content is made by happy, healthy and respected people. The only challenges should be creative ones, not personal ones.
Collaboration is the key to innovation,
inclusivity is vital and sharing success is just basic decency.
We make stuff we want to watch,
with people we want to make it with,
for people we want to connect with.
It's that simple.
THIS IS US
Amy Foster
CO-FOUNDER & CREATIVE DIRECTOR
Amy has been working with the UK's most exciting creative talent for nearly two decades to deliver premium feature documentaries and series for international broadcasters including Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, BBC, Discovery, National Geographic, History, FIFA+ and Universal.
Believing that variety is indeed the spice of life, Amy has worked on a wide range of programming, from biopics (Caroline Aherne: Queen of Comedy, Rebel Sister and Jon Snow: A Witness to History), to true crime (Beyond Reasonable Doubt, Le Masque, Locked up Abroad, and Women In Prison), music docs (AP Dhillon: First of a Kind and Jacob Collier: The Room Where it Happened), to sport series (including the Netflix global hit series, Untold: Swamp Kings and Another Way: The Forest Green Rovers Story) with a dash of specialist factual for good measure (Presidents at War, 80's Greatest, and Stephen Hawking's Universe).
Amy is excited to make Massive Owl the best place for off and on-screen talent to thrive and create content that changes the game.
Victoria Brooks
CO-FOUNDER
Victoria has run the award-winning global media agency
MILK Publicity for over two decades. With her vast experience of creating brand identities for the world's most recognisable TV & Film productions; managing high-end talent, producing content, and launching premium labels for the best networks and platforms, Victoria has built up a deep understanding of the global film and television market-place.
In previous lives Victoria has been the Head of BBC Drama pictures, a photographer's agent, an art director, a personal PR, and most recently the creative director at Milk Publicity.
Victoria has a contact book that is a rich mix of talent, agents, PRs, media editors, commissioners, directors, photographers, producers and many more.
Having launched Downton Abbey, Peaky Blinders, Agatha Christie and many, many more it is now time for Victoria to develop, create and launch her own IP and by teaming up with Amy to create Massive Owl, that is exactly what she is going to do next.
"Our M.O. is to create, innovate, and deliver unparalleled entertainment experiences for a global audience. It's storytelling redefined, where imagination knows no limits."
MASSIVE OWL
THIS IS ALL OF US
Harry Hewland
Harry Hewland
Harry Hewland
Showrunner
& Director
After starting out in drama on Sky's Dream Team, Harry moved to factual over a decade ago and has made a prolific catalogue of premium documentary series, predominantly for US broadcasters, including the Netflix mega-hit
MH370: The Plane That Disappeared, which reached the Top Ten in 86 countries
Jay Ahmed
Harry Hewland
Harry Hewland
Series Director
As a leading fact-ent director, Jay has created global franchises of The Real Housewives in both Cheshire and Dubai, Dubai Hustle, and The Drop. Most recently, he delivered the hugely successful obs-doc series,
AP Dhillon: First of a Kind for Amazon Prime Video.
Karen Lee
Harry Hewland
Karen Lee
Business & Production Manager
With over 20 years experience across a wide range of programming including factual, specialist factual, live studio and outside broadcast, Karen is one of the best in the business. She's worked with us from the very beginning and has delivered to Nat Geo, Discovery, BBC, ITV,PBS, Channel 4 and many, many more.
THIS IS ALL OF US
Richard Lapthorn
David Winterbourne
Richard Lapthorn
Production Manager
Richard is a highly experienced production manager who has the ability and precision to oversee the most complicated of shoots and do so in a way that sets a new industry standard.
Taryn Casey
David Winterbourne
Richard Lapthorn
Head of Digital Strategy
Over 25 years’ experience in building Global brands for the likes of Diageo and Coca-Cola. Taryn leads Massive Owl's digital business & strategy, driven by her passion for strategic digital innovation and content development.
David Winterbourne
David Winterbourne
David Winterbourne
Brand Consultant
Leading creative brand strategist, David leads Massive Owl's branded content partnerships team.
Experienced at the highest level with the world's leading brands, David loves to create new and inventive ways to reach and engage audiences across all platforms.
