Samphire Films was founded in 2024 by Sophie Leonard and BBC Documentaries commissioning editor David Hodgkinson.

Film and TV production in the U.K., whose boom came to a grinding halt in 2023 amid the Hollywood writers and actors strikes, rebounded in 2024 and is officially ahead of pre-Covid levels for the ...

BBC Studios has taken a minority stake in UK-based Samphire Films, the production company founded last year by Sophie Leonard and David Hodgkinson, to support its rapid growth and global expansion.

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