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We are Storyboard Studios

Our award-winning team brings almost three decades in originating and delivering innovative and multi-award-winning premium documentary, natural history, arts, science and history stories, for audiences here at home and around the world. 

We’re all about enabling great people whatever their background and we aim to contribute to a cultural and environmental revolution and a better future. We’re proud to hail from Glasgow, Scotland and believe in thinking globally while living locally.

Our People

For us, people come first and a team that feels supported and accepted is paramount. We’re committed to making sure exceptional talent from all backgrounds can access the opportunity to work in our industry.

Producer and CEO: Award-winning Producer, film maker and Storyboard Studios Founder Natalie Humphreys. 

Natalie has worked across the UK and global production sector for nearly three decades as a writer, director and executive producer, winning awards for cinematography, innovation and reaching new audiences. She has created programming across the spectrum, from constructed factual to drama, observational documentaries, factual formats, arts, history, science and natural history landmarks. After working across the UK independent sector, she joined Shine Television as head of specialist factual. She moved to Glasgow in 2011 while working for the BBC, where she held a number of roles including leading factual for BBC Studios, controller of factual & daytime for BBC Television and head of specialist factual for BBC Vision.

Prior to launching Storyboard Studios, Natalie led the BBC’s UK factual production network, where she was in charge of a £100M production portfolio including teams in Scotland, Northern Ireland, Cardiff, Salford, Bristol, London and the BBC Natural History Unit. She is known as a trusted originator and creative leader and served on the boards of BBC Scotland, BBC Television and was the editorial lead for the broadcaster’s co-production partnership with PBS. With awards from BAFTA, Grierson, RTS, Banff and Broadcast, her portfolio has included The One Show, Big Blue Live, Countryfile, Trust Me I’m A Doctor, Life and Death Row, Louis Theroux, This Farming Life, The Big Painting Challenge, Handmade, Afterlife House, Supermarket Secrets, Prehistoric Autopsy and History Cold Case. She also oversaw the launch of Planet Earth II and a new factual drama slate including Emmy-nominated The Challenger, starring William Hurt as Richard Feynman and the investigation into the 1986 Space Shuttle disaster.

Natalie started her television career as a researcher on natural history programmes, after a degree in Zoology and a PhD on the genetics of symbiosis. She is also a graduate of London Business School. She regularly mentors for organisations including Women in Film and Television, the BBC’s diversity schemes and Edinburgh Festival Diversity and Talent Schemes. She’s a mum of two sons and enjoys art and photography, as well as giving time pro bono to teaching media skills to school children.

Production Executive Kevin Walker works across Storyboard’s busy slate from managing series in production and budgeting projects in development, to overseeing our office planning, IT and logistics. With a background in documentaries, sport, science, arts, entertainment, music and event programming, Kevin has extensive domestic and international experience working on international shoots, celebrity series, single camera productions, studio and live outside broadcasts. Credits include BAFTA Scotland winner ‘Scotland 78’, Horizon, Trust Me I’m A Doctor, Russia’s Toughest for National Geographic and coverage of Belladrum Music Festival, Eurovision Choir and Ceilidh Na Bliadhn’ Ùire (Hogmanay) for BBC ALBA.

He is known as never one to shy away from a challenge and always on the look out for new and exciting projects. Kevin is bilingual (Gaelic and English) and away from work sings and performs as part of Connect Choir, a contemporary rock, pop and soul choir based in Glasgow.

Development Executive Claire Aza-Selinger has over 25 years of experience in the TV industry, across genres including Fact Ents, Specialist Factual, Docs, Drama and Children’s TV. She has taken over 20 ideas from brainstorm to commission, from big science formats such as BBC ONE’s hit series How to Stay Young, to popular fact ents such as Channel 4’s Hire My Home and shiny floor competitions like CBBC’s Glee Club.

Her extensive track record in development is down a genuine love of TV and a left-field way of thinking. Throughout her career, she has excelled in a number creative roles; including Director, Series Producer, Edit Producer and Storyliner.

With a degree in Zooology, and having worked with wolves before moving to telly, and her love of animals once landed her a role as an on-screen dog trainer/presenter with her dog Nelly, for a Saturday morning kids show called Who Let the Dogs out and About – though she assures us Nelly was the star.

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We also want to shout out to all the amazing people who work with us on our projects and thank them for helping make the company what it is.

Want to work with us? Please send your CV to workwithus@storyboardstudios.tv

Our Work

We’re working on a slate of premium and special access documentaries and specialist factual series and singles, for the UK and global audiences. 

We’re delighted that one of our documentaries in co-production with Tanzanian Director & DOP Jigar Ganatra has been selected for CPH Forum 2024, and that two out of the six shortlisted projects from across the globe are Storyboard Studios projects, in the Global Production Awards Diversity & Inclusion category, Cannes 2023.

Recent and current projects include an exciting series shining new light on the wonder of the human body, as well as a film about MMA, directed by Christine Johnston and told from the point of view of the partner of the could-be next world champion, in the run up to his make-or-break million dollar cage fight.  Another new film by Neil Sargent, follows singer-songwriter, Nathan Evans, hailed as ‘Scotland’s next Lewis Capaldi or a ‘new Ed Sheeran’ as he strives to launch his career. 

Filming is also underway on a landmark environmental project and story of our times, and we are producing a number of feature documentaries which include; the extraordinary story of a humanitarian aid centre in Georgia; a major new cinematic project that will allow us inside a confronting WWII photographic archive for the first time; An intimately observed story from the perspective of three young friends growing up among the last true hunter-gatherers in Africa; and a film that unveils the tragic and deeply troubling true story behind a teenage girl driven to take her life by machines built to control people for profit (recently announced in Deadline)

The response to our work attests to how we continually deliver awards and peak engagement, whatever the platform, and how we are especially in tune with youth, underserved and underrepresented audiences.

Just some of our previous titles include: our BBC Horizon film How to Sleep Well with Michael Mosley achieved peak ratings on BBC Two and iPlayer. Revealing new science breakthroughs, this useful guide will help anyone looking for tips and insights on how to get the benefits from better sleep. Money On My Mind broke new ground in audience engagement, ranking as the best performer on YouTube, most watched on instagram, and second best performer on Facebook of 4Studios branded content. Great British Photography Challenge for BBC Arts achieved 4x the share for 16-24 year old viewers and overwhelmingly positive coverage “Great British Photography Challenge is SO good”…”what’s great about it is no-one gets sent home each week”… “a deliciously spiky, high-octane new competition”. Stock Car Superstars, directed by Conor Reilly and co-produced with Anne Claire Pilley and Specky Productions for the BBC, takes us into the high stake rivalries and high speed crashes of the world of Scottish stock car racing.

Storyboard ties with Gaby Lafor’s Line Light on new diversity partnership

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We pride ourselves on being built on inclusivity and innovation at our heart.

We have a close relationship with our sister companies Chalkboard Television & Clapperboard Studios.

We knew right from the start that we had to create a place that is designed around inclusivity and innovation.

We take our work seriously but we don’t take ourselves too seriously. We strive to find new ways to do brilliant things. We are trustworthy and honest and take responsibility for our decisions. We take pride in delivering quality and value. We hold one another to account when it comes to kindness and respect.

We foster high performance, freedom with responsibility and context rather than control. As the company continues to grow, we are defined by the energy, creativity and openness of the people who work with us.

We love people who instinctively think for themselves, instinctively network and instinctively keep several balls in the air at once. People who thrive on this way of being help us to make new ideas happen and contribute to a great working culture. We strive to help set the benchmark for the best standards and practices in the industry.

Our nation and our sector sadly bear the hallmarks of the collective failures to address attitudes and behaviours which amount to discrimination. Although we cannot change this fact, we must do everything we can to continue to create a genuinely inclusive community in which people feel respected and secure.

Storyboard Studios relies on bringing great minds together, whatever their background to create new ideas, insights, innovations. The most effective way we can help address discriminaton and inequality is through our story telling and team work, including modernising and diversifying our practices.

We are reaffirming our commitment to addressing equality and welfare through improving access to prospective colleagues from all backgrounds.

Further to our Storyboard Equalities, Diversity and Inclusion Policy, we are committed to doing the work to ensure we have an environment where there is zero tolerance for abusive comments or behaviours and where we strive to practise kindness and pull together as a team.

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic we are currently working very closely with our health & safety consultants, First Option in order to ensure our working practices and production protocols meet the gold standard in safety management procedures. This work will be ongoing across all our projects in order to adapt to changes as they happen and maintain a safe working environment for all our employees and collaborators whilst still allowing us to produce and deliver outstanding creative content.