About us

Headquartered in London and Los Angeles, Lightbox is a multi-platform media company creating high quality non-fiction content for an array of distribution platforms. It was founded by two-time Academy Award®-winning producer Simon Chinn (Man on Wire, Searching for Sugar Man, Whitney) and Emmy® Award-winning producer Jonathan Chinn (LA 92, American High, Whitney).

Lightbox’s recent productions include David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived a feature documentary streaming on MAX and Sky about the incredible story of stunt double, David Holmes, who injured his spine while test filming for the penultimate ‘Harry Potter’ movie, Donyale Luna: Supermodel an HBO feature documentary streaming on MAX focusing on groundbreaking black supermodel Donyale Luna, The Mission a feature documentary which was a standout at Telluride and will hit theaters in the US on October 13th. Other notable works include; The Princess, the first theatrical release documentary about Princess Diana for HBO; Netflix hit series Sins of Our Mother a true crime docuseries following the Lori Vallow case, Spector a 4 part series dissecting complicated cultural figure of the 20th century, Phil Spector;  TINA, which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and tells the full story – for the first time – of global icon and undisputed Queen of Rock and Roll, Tina Turner, directed by Academy® and Emmy® Award winners Dan Lindsay and TJ Martin; Whitney, a major theatrical feature documentary directed by Academy Award® winner Kevin Macdonald, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival; Netflix feature documentary Tell Me Who I Am, which premiered to critical acclaim at Telluride and the London Film Festival; Academy Award®-nominated Black Sheep; Untouchable, a theatrical documentary on the Weinstein scandal which premiered at Sundance 2019 and aired on BBC2 and Hulu. 

Projects in production currently include; a four part docuseries with Disney+ about Camden’s musical history with Amy director Asif Kapadia; a docuseries about Katrina told from perspectives of key characters for National Geographic and partnering with Proximity, Ryan Coogler’s production company.

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Simon Chinn Co-Founder

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Jonathan Chinn Co-Founder

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Vanessa Tovell Chief Operating Officer

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Carolyn Sperry Lewis SVP, Production and Operations

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Ben Samuel Creative Director, Development

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Suzanne Lavery SVP Unscripted

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Alexis Gomez-Garcia VP Development

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Ed Perkins Director

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Selina Ferguson Production Executive

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Ty’rel Jones Director of Post Production

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David Kraemer Line Producer

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Maddie Hausberg Director of Development

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Rosemary Rwama Production Coordinator

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Erin Cutler Production Coordinator

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Violet Zand Executive Assistant

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Carissa Kacmarek Executive Assistant

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