Blank Co

Blank Co is a production company representing exceptional Film Directors, Creative Directors, and AI Creatives. We tailor the right team for your needs and deliver across all scales from single pieces of content to full integrated campaigns.

We’re flexible, fast-moving, and dedicated to stretching your budget further.

Owain Astles

Owain Astles

Owain is a film director working across commercials, narrative and docudrama, with a focus on socially engaged storytelling and participatory filmmaking. Owain has created work for BBC, Evoto and Creative England, with charity spots for the likes of Bristol Old Vic, Big Issue, Cardboard Citizens and Dallaglio RugbyWorks. His short film work has screened at BAFTA and BFI-qualifying festivals in the UK and internationally. In 2025 he took part in HBO’s mentorship programme on House of the Dragon. Owain’s work sits at the intersection of documentary and fiction, made in close collaboration with the people at the centre of each story. He is drawn to socially relevant subjects, told through tactile, intimate, gentle stories of people and relationships. He makes work about destigmatisation — sexual health, mental wellbeing, housing insecurity, identity — based on lived experience. Owain comes from a background in applied arts facilitation, working with communities in prisons and experiencing homelessness before he made films. That practice shapes how he works: the process is participatory, and the texture of real life is always the starting point — whether in commercial, documentary, or scripted narrative. Owain is a member of BAFTA Connect and a Gotham Marcie Bloom Fellow. He’s a candidate on the Grad Film programme at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in New York, where he is a recipient of the BAFTA scholarship and the WTC Johnson scholarship.

(About us)

Blank Co is a next-generation production company built to turn bold ideas into powerful marketing. We don’t rely on rosters or rigid structures. We pick the best creative and production talent for every brief. The result? Unmatched flexibility, speed, and quality.

Samantha Chitty

Sam has spent 20 years in the advertising and film industry, across commercials, features, events and music videos. Starting on the reception desk of Academy films, becoming Jon Glazer’s PA and then working in production before going freelance. Since then she has produced for various companies and directors including Daniel Wolfe, Ninian Doff and James Gray. She worked on a Louis Vuitton exhibition at the Louvre and the Tom Ford London fashion show. In 2013 she Line produced a feature, ‘The Goob’, that won best achievement in Production at the British Independent Film Awards and premiered at the Venice Film Festival. She produced a feature film ‘Tides’ which premiered at the BFI Film Festival and was recently admitted into their National Archive. In 2017 she joined Biscuit Filmworks where she spent 7 years as Head of Production and then Executive Producer working with acclaimed directors such as Jeff Low, Steve Rogers and Molly Manners. During her tenure, Biscuit won Production Company of the Year twice at the British Television Advertising Awards.

(Samantha Chitty, She/Her)

Founder/EP

Matthew Stillman

Matthew Stillman is a British entrepreneur and film producer. He is the founder and CEO of 2020 Content, one of the largest private companies in film, television and advertising. The group oversees a collection of more than 20 portfolio companies, across 16 countries. Stillman’s companies have been involved in over 150 projects, including some of the most successful franchises in cinema. The group has a formidable presence in the commercial world, earning top honors such as Global Company of the Year and over 100 Cannes Lions, including a Grand Prix. In 2018, Stillman launched Illuminated Content in collaboration with actor Liev Schreiber. The venture focuses on developing, financing and producing television and movie projects. Stillman is also a director and investor in On The Corner Films and Box To Box Films, the companies behind the acclaimed Drive to Survive series. Stillman is a member of BAFTA and the Founders Forum. He serves as a director of the Pink Bubble Foundation, a charity dedicated to supporting children with cancer.

(Matthew Stillman, He/Him)

Founder/CEO

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  • KY
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  • Sainbury's
  • Samsung
  • Sheba
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  • Tonies
  • Uber
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  • Winsor & Newton

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