Oxford Scientific Films
The Team
Caroline Hawkins
Creative Director
Caroline Hawkins has been a driving force at OSF since 2004. As the creator and producer of ‘Meerkat Manor’ she solidified OSF's longstanding international reputation for innovation and excellence. Her diverse credits include the Australian Academy Award-winning ‘Magical Land of Oz’, ‘Wild Korea’, ‘Honey Badgers: Masters of Mayhem’, ‘Fatal Attractions’ and the IMAX film Pandas 3D.
Nominated for a BAFTA in 2019 for the powerful BBC documentary ‘Driven: The Billy Monger Story’, Caroline followed up with the Grierson and Broadcast Award-nominated documentary thriller ‘Murder In The Pacific’ for the BBC. In 2023 she executive-produced and the Critics Choice Award-winning and double EMMY-nominated ‘Secrets of the Elephants’ for National Geographic/Disney+.
She has just completed ‘Secrets of the Spy Whale’, a feature-length documentary for the BBC and is now working on a major theatrical feature for Warner Brothers Pictures Animation.
Anna Brett
Head of Production
With over 17 years’ experience in the industry, Anna joined Oxford Scientific Films in 2006 as the office runner and has never left! Anna moved into production and worked as a Production Coordinator on many big series including Meerkat Manor and Atom before progressing to be Production Manager on Fatal Attractions, Magical Land of Oz, Secret Life of Cats and The Queen’s Garden.
Anna was promoted to Head of Production in 2015 and now oversees all the OSF output across numerous genres for a wide range of broadcasters, including BBC, Netflix, Channel 4, ITV, Discovery, National Geographic and Disney+. Recent productions include China: Nature’s Ancient Kingdom, Driven: The Billy Monger Story and Secret of the Elephants.
When not at her desk Anna can be found trying to balance family life, planning her next holiday, cooking for friends or running incredibly slowly.
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Clare Birks
Executive Producer – Special Projects
Clare has used her commercial acumen to transform the business into a company with an international reputation for creative excellence and innovation producing award-winning programming for the international market.
Co-production partnerships with the USA, Australia, Austria, Korea, Japan and most recently China have enabled the company to produce a range of programming in the natural history and science genres including global hit Meerkat Manor, Wildest Weather with Richard Hammond, Wild Tokyo, Magical land of Oz and China: Nature’s Ancient Kingdom.
Prior to this she worked extensively in drama co-production for Southern Star, funding drama development and brokering international co-production deals for series. She has also worked for a number of leading entertainment companies including RKO, Viacom and London Weekend Television.
Andy King
Head of Development
Andy is a development specialist with extensive experience across documentary, natural history and factual entertainment, and multiple award wins and nominations for projects he has developed.
In his time at OSF, Andy has led the development of 5 x Emmy-award nominated series 'The Hidden Lives of Our Pets' (ITV/Netflix), 2 x Emmy nominated 'Secrets of The Elephants' (Nat Geo), Grierson nominated 'Murder in The Pacific', and the new feature documentary Secrets of the Spy Whale.
He previously worked across documentary, specialist factual and fact ent slates at Rogan Productions, Studio Lambert, Twenty Twenty, and Spun Gold amongst others, and has developed broadcast singles, series and formats for BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Nat Geo and Netflix.
Helen Conlan
Development Executive
When Helen joined the team at OSF in 2023 she brought with her 20 years of experience and credits in award winning factual productions for broadcasters around the world.
She started her career in production, line producing high budget blue chip projects including ‘CIVILISATIONS’ for BBC/PBS, ‘Surviving D-Day’ for BBC/Discovery, ‘Pandas 3D: The Journey Home’ for National Geographic and ‘Inside The Mind of Leonardo’ for SKY, before moving into editorial positions as a head of development, development executive and story producer. She has helped secure over $20 million of commissions at major broadcasters including ‘Our Water World’ Landmark Natural History series for NETFLIX, ‘The Real Crown’ Documentary series for ITV, ‘Hawking: Can You Hear me?’ for SKY Documentaries, ‘Belsen: Our Story’ for BBC1, ‘Return to Titanic’ for National Geographic, and ‘Endurance: The Hunt for Shackleton’s Ice Ship’ for A&E Networks.
She is passionate about collaborating with great talent on and off screen, and is committed to creating bold, impactful programmes that stand out from the crowd.
Christian Scott
Head of Finance
A CIMA qualified accountant, Christian has led the financial operations at Oxford Scientific Films for over 15 years. At an operational level, he and his team provide high quality financial guidance, reporting, and robust financial processes and systems which support both management and production staff in delivering the high quality television for which OSF is known.
Christian's finance career in the media and entertainment sector began more than 25 years ago and during that time he has worked as a personal accountant to Sir Michael Caine and Sir Elton John, and for large blue-chip companies like Sony Computer Entertainment and Logica plc where he controlled areas of budget exceeding £50m.
Over the last decade Christian has navigated multiple changes to the OSF company structure and has led several phases of significant reorganisation, as well as improving the quality of financial information, governance, planning and decision making.