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Lightbox’s recent highlights include Hurricane Katrina: Race Against Time, a 5-part triple Emmy-nominated series, executive produced by Ryan Coogler, which is National Geographic’s most watched show on Disney+ in the US ever and which also won Best Historical Documentary at the 2025 Critics Choice awards; The Diamond Heist, a critically acclaimed 3-part series for Netflix, executive produced by Guy Ritchie; Lightbox’s first series with Apple TV, Twisted Yoga; and Lost in the Jungle, a feature documentary for National Geographic, co-produced with Little Monster Films and directed by Academy Award-winners Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, which won the Emmy for Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary.

Other past highlights include: LA92, the Emmy-winning feature documentary for National Geographic which tells the story of the 1992 LA Riots entirely through archive and is directed by Academy Award-winners Dan Lindsay and TJ Martin; Netflix hit true crime series Sins of Our Mother; Tina, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, was nominated for three Emmys and is the only authorised documentary made with the full participation of Tina Turner; Whitney, the only ever fully authorised documentary about musical legend Whitney Houston, directed by Academy Award®-winner Kevin Macdonald, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2018, was theatrically released around the world and nominated for a Grammy; the Academy Award®-nominated and multiple award winning short, Black Sheep, from director Ed Perkins; and Netflix feature documentary Tell Me Who I Am, also directed by Ed Perkins, which premiered to critical acclaim at the Telluride and London Film Festival.

Recently completed or forthcoming projects include: The Pet Cemetery Murders: A Ghost Story, a three-part series for HBO which launched for Halloween 2026 on HBO Max; Clown Panic, a feature documentary which went straight to number 1 on Hulu on its release in October 2026, and the much anticipated Artemis: The Furthest Journey (w/t), a feature documentary for National Geographic which has for six years been following the first phase of the mission to return astronauts to the moon – due to launch in 2027.

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Simon Chinn Co-Founder

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Jonathan Chinn Co-Founder

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Vanessa Tovell Managing Director

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Ben Samuel Creative Director

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Suzanne Lavery Creative Director

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Carolyn Sperry Lewis SVP, Production and Operations

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Gabby Peeters VP and Head of Development, UK

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Vusi Kaola Development Producer

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Polly Allen Head of Production, UK

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Ed Perkins Director

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Selina Ferguson Production Executive

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Mariah Ceccantini Production Coordinator

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Violet Zand Development Assistant Producer

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Tom Porteous Development Editor

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Robbie Wallis Finance Controller

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Jade Samuel Finance Assistant

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Hannah Nichols-Chia Executive Assistant & Office Manager

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Elizabeth Schuetzle Executive Assistant

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