Cloud Break is a production company headquartered in Edinburgh, Scotland. Working across a wide range of striking original content delivered cross-platform, the company seeks to explore contemporary human-centred narratives told through innovative storytelling, digitally skewed and with a dash of comedy (when appropriate, naturally).
Working with UK and international broadcasters and producers, we develop content across a varied slate, from short form animation and documentary, to broadcast television and narrative features. We understand the growth potential of digital formats, and leaning on our many years combined experience in delivering short form content we’re driving a slate of exciting factual and fact-ent projects. Latest work include a BBC documentary following the life of a teenage TikTok star, and a BAFTA Cymru nominated international co-production comprising two films looking at the Covid vaccine roll out in the UK and how it might be influenced by online misinformation originating in the US. We are also VT suppliers to BBC’s The One Show.
Toby Trueman
Producer Director
An international award winning creative working across all aspects of film, TV and video production, from BAFTA-winning narrative short film to long-form documentary and scripted feature film, delivering content for commissioners including BBC, S4C and TRT World. Continuously striving to develop the wider studio as Heehaw’s Managing Director, Toby has been instrumental in working to build the group's international focus.
Lauren Abery
Head of Development & Exec Producer
Head of Development and Show-runner Lauren Abery has just joined Cloud Break after working in the industry for nearly two decades across a range of different genres from one-off docs, ‘What Britain Bought’, to factual entertainment series such as 'Million Pound Menu', 'Supper Man', 'Family Cooking Showdown' and big US formats including 'Masterchef USA', 'Kitchen Nightmares USA' and 'Extreme Love'.
Lauren has worked in Development across big international formats, having worked in development teams at Outline Productions, Jamie Oliver Producers, Barcroft Studios and The Connected Set. Creating ideas for the UK and US market, from formats to docs both long-form and short-form. She has a passion for bringing amazing ideas, stories and characters to the screen and making unmissable content and television programmes.
Stephen Coll
Development Assistant Producer
Development Assistant Producer Stephen Coll is most passionate about bringing powerful stories to the forefront in the documentary and current affairs spaces. After graduating from the Met Film School and training in development at Bill Kenwright Films in London, Stephen moved back home to Scotland and joined the Development & Production team at Cloud Break Pictures after a year with our sister company Heehaw
James Boughen
Development Producer & Writer
Development Producer James Boughen has been working in the industry for a decade, in various roles across development and production. Working as a comedy writer since 2011, James has written for many shows - including Shooting Stars, Mock the Week, The Graham Norton Show and Russell Howard’s Good News; as well as children’s shows for CBBC and CBeebies.
James has previously worked in development teams at So Television, Objective, and Endemol, working up a range of formats for television, radio and digital. Production roles include directing and producing digital comedy shorts for BBC and Channel 4; and working on the Netflix documentary series Sunderland ‘Til I Die. He’s passionate about finding the funny and developing projects from initial idea to screen.