About Us
Breakwater Productions
Building Breakwater
Meet the group who look after and manage idea development and team management across a wide range of subjects and production disciplines throughout the UK.
Ready to staff digital and broadcast project proposals of any size both locally around our South West England headquarters or further afield spanning national and international concepts.
With over 100 years of experience between our senior management, our combined contacts and accumulated expertise in audio visual and printed media allow the Breakwater team to compete and operate on a number of projects both home and away using excellent freelance film crew.
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The Team
Our People
Jane Blanchard
Editor/Producer
Jane began her career as a press officer for top rock bands. A Mirror-trained journalist, she switched from print to TV joining Television South West and subsequently ITV Westcountry rising through the ranks to become a series director/producer, documentary maker and finally Head of Features and Current Affairs, overseeing and commissioning all the station’s non-news output.
Awards include winning the Royal Television Society’s SW Personality of the Year and being a finalist at New York and Houston Television festivals.
Since leaving ITV, Jane launched Blanchard Media offering corporate films and commercials, copywriting and PR Services. She is also a best-selling author, with four novels published by Time Warner.
Arezoo Farahzad
Producer/Director
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Arezoo has over twenty five years of broadcast and corporate experience including several successful BBC series with Rick Stein and more recently Paul Hollywood. She has produced series for national and regional television for the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Discovery. She is a key player in development operations with her vast awareness of the most experienced and reliable production, post production and technical crew both in the UK and abroad.
She has also developed extensive knowledge of working in over 30 countries and territories across 4 continents and continues to maintain contacts and connections with their respective network of government and production personnel.
Her career began with radio and she still keeps her hand in through regular guest appearances on BBC Radio Devon. She has gained invaluable insight and the respect of many key groups beyond the broadcast and digital production sector, both in Devon and Cornwall and across the UK.
Gary Lovejoy
Managing Producer
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Gary has enjoyed 44 varied years in broadcasting. The first 17 were with ITV in all areas of sports production from reporting to documentary and magazine series creation to complex live programming and finally executive producer positions in Southampton and London.
Then came a decade of roles leading entire sports channels starting with Eurosport International based in Paris and launching Zee Sports in Delhi for India’s biggest network group.
Senior positions on major events and responsibility for their huge live Host Broadcasting output were the next challenge. First there were challenging locations across Europe and Africa while heading up production for Sportfive the global international rights agency.
A highlight was winning a 2012 Sports Emmy while running the America’s Cup’s bespoke coverage, as were two successful years on both Glasgow’s Commonwealth Games and the 2017 World Athletics Championships in London.
But creating ideas and hands on programme making still deliver the biggest buzz. The launch of Breakwater means Gary’s global experiences are now reinvested in a fresh team with new shows from their home region.
Ryan Lovejoy
Media Manager and Drone Pilot
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Ryan has had twenty years of sports broadcasting and online roles including running Bournemouth football club’s website when still at University and ten years at the tough school of Sky Sports.
Since 2012 he has been engaged by the Olympics, Paralympics, FIFA and UEFA for two major events each year and become skilled in the handling of digital media on a vast scale and mastering the vital disciplines of logging, archiving and then creating from massive pools of content.
In the last three years he has been a manager of host broadcast commentary services in Tokyo and has the same role in Paris for this summer’s Olympics. He has also enjoyed a sequence of roles on major football championships, the 2023 Rugby World Cup, ATP Finals in Italy, top golf in Spain, plus his production work for Breakwater.
Ryan edits on Final Cut Pro and is also Breakwater’s licensed drone pilot having completed over a hundred flying missions in the last three years.
Acknowledgements
Thank You!
Breakwater’s development period has really benefitted from high-calibre inputs of local professionals involved on location and in creative services.
Neil Tugwell and Roger Edwards are vastly experienced broadcast cameramen based in the Plymouth area who have provided excellent visuals for projects that will get more prominence on this website in the near future.
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Roger Edwards
Cameraman
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Roger has a vast array of credits for all of the UK’s terrestrial broadcasters and Sky One. These have included blue-light series, gardening, cookery and travelogues with titles and styles ranging from Panorama to Come Dine with Me and Extreme Cake Bakers to Dispatches.
Breakwater’s production team have worked with Roger across much of his whole career from the years on staff with ITV in this region to his busy life as a freelance.
Neil Tugwell
Cameraman
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Neil has enjoyed a huge variety of challenges and experiences in his three decades in the business.
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They vary from major news stories like Hurricane Katrina, for which he won two awards from the New York Film Festival, to globe-trotting series with chef Gary Rhodes that also earned him international honours.
He has already been been key to Breakwater’s development of four contrasting projects.
This website has been created by Cheryl Chan who has advised us through the entire process with great skill and clarity.
And our Breakwater logo has been created by another Plymouth specialist in graphic designer Jess Cook. She, like Cheryl, was extremely attentive and precise from our first conversation through to delivery.
Breakwater would like to sincerely thank Neil, Roger, Cheryl and Jess plus others we will introduce here as our programme ideas unfold.