The Team
Academy Award and BAFTA winning producer Ruth Kenley-Letts is CEO of Brontë Film and TV. She has been nominated for several awards including the prestigious Carl Foreman most promising newcomer before she began working consistently in TV. Her many credits include Silent Witness (BBC), The Nativity (BBC), The Hour Series 1 & 2 (multi-award winner, BBC), The Tunnel Series 1 (multi-award winner, Sky/Canal Plus) and The Casual Vacancy (BBC/HBO).
As CEO of both Brontë and Snowed-In she has executive produced all of the Robert Galbraith’s Strike series: The Cuckoo’s Calling, The Silkworm, Career of Evil, Lethal White, Troubled Blood and The Ink Black Heart (for BBC One/ HBO Max), Mrs Wilson (BAFTA nominated, BBC / PBS Masterpiece), Too Close (BAFTA nominated, ITV /AMC), You Don’t Know Me (BAFTA nominated, BBC/ Netflix), The Midwich Cuckoos (Sky) Stonehouse (ITV/ Britbox) and Joan (BAFTA nominated, ITV / CW).
Neil Blair is the Chairman of the Board and a Director of Pottermore as well as the Founding Partner of The Blair Partnership, a London-based literary agency and business management company that represents several leading authors including J.K. Rowling.
Until 2011, he worked as a partner at the Christopher Little Literary Agency, which he joined in 2001.
Before his career in the literary world, Blair was Warner Bros.’ European Head of Business Affairs, Europe, working in the film and TV arena on productions like Band of Brothers and Eyes Wide Shut.
He also helped to acquire the film rights for J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. Prior to his career in the entertainment business, Blair trained and qualified into the litigation team at the global law firm Linklaters & Paines (now rebranded as Linklaters) after graduating in law from Exeter College, Oxford University.
Blair is active in a number of charities including Lumos, J.K. Rowling’s charity, which works towards the deinstitutionalisation of children in East Europe.
Jess Cameron-Lewis joined Brontë in 2015 as a Production Manager and set to work developing the company policies, systems and processes required to get Productions over the line. Jess has grown an internal production team and as COO & Director of Production she supports Ruth in the day-to-day running of the businesses and acts as first point of contact for all of our productions.
Jess first worked with Ruth as an assistant co-ordinator on series 1 & 2 of The Hour and worked with Ruth again as the Production Co-ordinator on series 1 of The Tunnel, before she was asked to oversee Brontë’s first show, The Casual Vacancy in 2014.
Jess started out as a runner and floor runner in television in 2009 and has worked in many different roles across Production and Post-Production.
Simon Gerra joined the team in June 2021 and leads the finance team, overseeing the day-to-day financial running of Bronte and Snowed-In and providing strategic direction for the companies.
Simon has spent more than 20 years in the television industry, most recently he was Financial Controller at Studio Lambert (part of the All3Media group) where he managed the finances and production margins across several BAFTA winning factual entertainment formats and scripted shows, including Goggle-Box for C4, The Circle for Netflix and The Nest for the BBC. Prior to this Simon was Group Financial Controller at Zinc Media Group plc where he was involved in the acquisition of Reef Television and Tern TV into the group.
Simon began his career at the BBC where he spent 10 years working across multiple departments and programme genres including Scripted Drama and Comedy, Docs, Specialist Factual and Children’s Television. Simon trained at the BBC inhouse and gained the ACCA qualification.
Benjamin Schaan joined the Brontë and Snowed-In teams in April 2021. Since then, he has been heavily involved across the company’s entire slate. Before this he worked as a freelancer in the film and TV industry since 2014. Benjamin works closely with Series Producers in the pre-production stage of Brontë’s projects to ensure they are best setup for filming. He then continues to collaborate with the production teams during filming and post-production to provide support and guidance where needed.
Benjamin has held many positions across the industry, ranging from In-House Business Affairs Associate to Producer’s Assistant for a number of well-known executives and creatives in Canada, The UK and Israel. In the last few years Benjamin has worked as a Production Manager and Coordinator on many high-profile projects including Black Narcissus (FX), The Batman (WB) and Altered Carbon (Netflix). Most recently Benjamin worked as the Production Coordinator on the hit Netflix series Top Boy.
Yamila Baqouah Karraz joined the Brontë team in March 2021 and works alongside Simon as part of the finance team.
She began her professional career after finishing her degree in hospitality and hotel business in Malaga when she moved to Paris to work as a night auditor. She then worked several years in London at the ACCOR hotel chain and eventually became their Group Accounts Manager in Madrid.
Yamila’s return to London offered up new opportunities and she began working in various finance roles within the music industry. She worked for many years at Rocket Music, where she simultaneously completed her Management Accountancy qualifications with CIMA while working as the Tour Financial Controller for Elton John.
Eleanor Donachie joined Bronte as Assistant to Ruth Kenley-Letts in 2024 after working in the production team on Strike – The Ink Black Heart. She graduated from the University of Oxford in 2020, and then went on to complete a Masters in Eighteenth-Century Literature. Eleanor started in the industry at Working Title Films where she worked in production on Everything I Know About Love, before script coordinating the US remake of Friday Night Dinner at Big Talk Productions.
Tehya joined Brontë in 2025. She works as an assistant to the wider team, supporting the smooth running of the production office and collaborating with production teams throughout the filming process. Graduating with a degree in Art and Film in 2022, Tehya initially went into the non-profit sector.
In 2023, she secured a place on the competitive Channel 4 Paralympic Production Training Scheme where she worked at 4creative – Channel 4’s in-house creative agency – as a trainee production coordinator and then as a freelancer. While at Channel 4, Tehya worked on various campaigns including the now award-winning Considering What? TV film advert and OOH marketing campaign for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.
Jonathan is a partner at the media law firm Simkins LLP.
He has longstanding experience in the film and TV sector and has advised on a number of high profile television and film projects for some of the UK leading producers as well as US studios.