Experience, passion
and talent
Seadog has a policy of employing young, talented film-makers and combining this with experienced production veterans. As such, the company prides itself on nurturing new industry talent, whilst at the same time utilising relationships and experience that has been built up over many decades.
The team at Seadog incorporates many decades of experience in television production both in the UK and worldwide.
Monty Halls
Executive Producer
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Executive Producer
Monty is a well known BBC presenter, having fronted three series of BBC 2’s ‘Great Escapes’, as well as ‘Great Barrier Reef’ and ‘The Fisherman’s Apprentice.’ He has also presented films and series’ for Discovery, The History Channel, Channel 5, National Geographic, and Channel 4. More recently he has created several series concepts, including ‘Escaping Hitler’ and ‘My Family & the Galapagos’, and has worked more actively as a producer and originator of new content.
Tamsyn Halls
Business & Communications Manager
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Business & Communications Manager
Tamsyn has previously worked for the BBC, at Children In Need and the Wildlife Fund, organising live television appeals and running their marketing and PR efforts. She has also worked within production management at the Underwater Channel, where she gained valuable insight into the multi-platform online television industry, whilst utilising social media to build communities. Tamsyn’s passion is firmly based in the diving and wildlife sector and she’s also managed various events within these sectors, raising awareness and fundraising for numerous causes which aim to protect our natural world.
Rich Davies
Director/DOP - Freelance Talent Pool
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Director/DOP - Freelance Talent Pool
Richard is a self-shooting director specialising in adventure filmmaking. His work has taken him to many regions worldwide from the Amazon rainforest to the Swiss Alps. He has worked with some of the world’s best extreme sports athletes including the top wing suit pilots in the world and free solo climber Alex Honnold, widely regarded as the world’s best free soloist. Richard has also directed commercials for top brand clients such as Renault and organisations such as the Italian tourism board.
Mark Hale
Project Director - Leaderbox
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Project Director - Leaderbox
Mark is an experienced Project Manager, having learnt his trade within the UK Ministry of Defence. Wanting a change of scenery, Mark moved to the UAE to manage the design and construction of several multi-million pound sky scrapers, collaborating with many of the World’s most renowned architect practices.
In a change of career, he entered academia where he held a number of high level management positions within the Country’s largest academic institution. Having recently returned to the UK with his young family, Mark has joined Seadog Productions to manage their Leaderbox initiative.
Stace Trevaskus
Development Exec
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Development Exec
Stace has worked at a range of companies such as Hindsight Productions, Hat Trick & Plum Pictures, and joins Seadog after two years working at BBC Studios in London. She has worked across a range of developments and productions for major broadcasters such as BBC, ITV, C4, UKTV, Netflix and Youtube in everything from Entertainment to Docs. Having recently moved back home to the South West, Stace is hoping to immerse herself into the world of factual TV and help create some truly breathtaking stories.
Greg Lander-Williams
DOP Director/Producer
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DOP Director/Producer
Nick Curwin
Non-Exec Director
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Non-Exec Director
With a background in print journalism, Nick began his TV career at LWT and then Mentorn, where he ran its Folio division. He launched indie Firefly, now Dragonfly, with Magnus Temple in 2004. There he pioneered so-called “factual Theatre” with programmes such as the award-winning Anatomy For Beginners (C4), as well as the “rig show”, with the BAFTA-nominated The Family (C4) and BAFTA-winning One Born Every Minute (C4).
He sold Firefly to Shine in 2007 and left with Temple three years later to launch a second indie, The Garden, producers of 24 Hours in A&E (C4), 24 Hours in Police Custody (C4), Keeping Britain Alive (BBC2) and The Audience (C4) – all BAFTA-nominated – as well as the BAFTA-winning Bedlam (C4). The Garden was twice voted the best indie in the country by its peers. Four years after ITV Studios acquired The Garden, he stood down as CEO and joined the Board of C4’s Indie Growth Fund. After a year as Creative Mentor to investee companies and advising the channel on new investments, he left to launch Matisse.
Scarlett Ewens
Non-Exec Director
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Non-Exec Director
Scarlett began her career in consumer Public Relations in the mid 90s. After a number of years as a successful PR in the UK and Australia she commenced work in the UK television production sector in 2007, firstly as a freelance Production Manager across titles such as Grand Designs and Kill It, Cook It, Eat It, and then as a staff Production Executive at Firefly (later renamed Dragonfly). There Scarlett Line Produced some of the indie’s flagship titles, notably the multi-award-winning series The Family. In 2010, she joined Nick Curwin and Magnus Temple in launching The Garden Productions as Managing Director.
For the first three years she doubled as Head of Production as well as overseeing all of the day to day running of the business, its operations and commercial strategy. In particular, Scarlett was responsible for maximising the company’s revenue through traditional production creation and the exploitation of IP. As Head of Production, she had oversight of some of the UK’s largest factual series including 24 Hours in A&E, Keeping Britain Alive and 24 Hours in Police Custody. Scarlett had a key role in the sale of The Garden to ITV in 2013. Following a successful earn-out period, Scarlett stepped down as Managing Director and COO in July 2018.
Edwina Silver
Non-Exec Director
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Non-Exec Director
Edwina Silver joined Dragonfly in January 2006 as Head of Development. She later became Head of Specialist Factual in 2013. She has devised, developed and delivered hit shows to all major UK and US broadcasters, most recently BBC2 series Surgeons: At The Edge of Life; BBC2’s Equator From The Air with Gordon Buchanan; C5’s The Great British Benefit Handout; BBC2’s The Burrowers: Animals Underground; C4’s Secret History: Cleopatra’s Lost Tomb.
Before joining Dragonfly, Edwina was a TV presenter, working on award-winning series such as Animal Hospital, City Hospital, Holiday, Pompeii Live! and Fighter Plane Live! for C5. She combined her presenting career with a successful stint as a freelance producer, during which time she made Child of Our Time for BBC1 and ITV’s This Morning among many other shows.
