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.

Simon Lane

Simon Lane

Simon is a commercials director working across sport, music and culture, with a foundation rooted in documentary filmmaking. That background continues to shape his work today. Story always comes first. Whether directing global brand campaigns or short-form social content, Simon focuses on emotional clarity, strong narrative ideas and images that communicate even when viewed on mute. A lifelong sports fan, Simon’s relationship with sport is both cultural and personal. His sister is a three-time Paralympic medalist, an experience that shaped his understanding of competition, resilience and meaningful representation. That perspective informs the authenticity and respect he brings to every film he makes. His work spans football, basketball, ice hockey, boxing, running and winter sports, collaborating with world-class talent including David Beckham, Marcus Rashford, Andrés Iniesta, Achraf Hakimi and Mikel Arteta. He has directed branded work for Nike, Adidas, Visa and Levi’s, as well as an ongoing body of films for UEFA x FedEx across multiple Champions League seasons. In music and culture, Simon directed a Webby Award–winning documentary. Across all formats, he works from an audience-first principle. Good content does not begin with trends, but with a clear understanding of who it is for and what needs to stick. Simon builds films with the client’s goals in mind, working modularly and platform-specifically with social logic considered from the start. Looking ahead, Simon’s ambition is to direct the world’s most compelling sporting personalities on truly global campaigns, while continuing to build toward a feature documentary with the same long-term goal he brings to every project: work that lasts.

(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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  • Adidas
  • Aldi
  • Alpro
  • Amazon
  • American Express
  • B&Q
  • BBC
  • BBH
  • Bombardier
  • Boots
  • British Heart Foundation
  • Buxton
  • Carlsberg
  • Channel 4
  • Choose Love
  • Comic Relief
  • Diageo
  • Dominos
  • EBay
  • EE
  • Fever Tree
  • Firmative
  • Gillette
  • Gym Group
  • Heinz
  • IKEA
  • INEOS
  • Instagram
  • John Lewis
  • KY
  • Klarna
  • Lagavulin
  • Le Chameau
  • Leagas Delaney
  • Lurpak
  • MC Saatchi
  • Maker's Mark
  • Matalan
  • McDonald's
  • McVitie's
  • Meta
  • Nando's
  • Nespresso
  • Netflix
  • Neverland
  • Nike
  • PETA
  • Radox
  • Saatchi Saatchi
  • Sainbury's
  • Samsung
  • Sheba
  • Tesco
  • The Guardian
  • Tonies
  • Uber
  • Uncommon
  • Vattenfall
  • Very
  • Vodafone
  • Winsor & Newton

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