About Us

Mark Stucke

Founder and CEO

At the age of 21 Mark was dodging bullets in the Russian Afghan war, working on his first conflict documentary. In 1990 he established Journeyman and moulded it into a support and sales hub for freelancers operating in conflict zones around the world, establishing strong relationships with all the world's leading broadcasters. If selling short news films was the crucible of his distribution training, the decision in 2000 to focus on documentary distribution and co-production was what branded the company as one of the leading factual agents globally. Today Mark is an expert in market trends, driving the company's growth across all major markets and with a specialist interest in digital distribution.

Emma Simpson

Head of Acquisitions and Development

For 15 years Emma has helped to grow Journeyman in to a leading sales agent with a diverse catalogue of top independent documentaries. With a particular focus on acquisitions and projects in development, Emma is experienced in offering editorial advice, producing edits and developing release strategies with filmmakers. Emma has appeared on juries, panels and roundtables at multiple festivals around the world.

Mickey Sharp

CFO

As Journeyman's Management Accountant Mickey oversees all finance matters across the company's wide-ranging operations, driving our ability to report monthly to our filmmakers and keeping us slick and transparent.

Tami Davidson

Sales Executive

Tami drives our sales with broadcasters and inflight clients, as well as co-ordinating theatrical and non-theatrical bookings around the world. Tami ensures broad access to our catalogue at both a grassroots level and on a global stage.

Julia Males

Acquisitions, Festivals and Publicity Executive

Julia is always on the lookout for great new docs to acquire and is a key point of contact for our filmmaker partners. She also drives the critical early release stages of our films' rollouts; handling all promotion and publicity, festival submissions and release scheduling.

Sam Pothier

Head of Footage Sales

The Journeyman footage archive grows daily and consists of close to 70,000 clips covering every major event of the last century and many minor ones. Its collection of footage covering conflicts in Africa and the Middle East from 1990 to the present is perhaps the most extensive in the world. Sam runs the footage department, from cataloguing our extensive archive, to bespoke client research services and brokering deals.

Umair Zaidi

Digital Media Executive

Umair oversees the delivery of feature films that Journeyman place with, Amazon, Apple TV, YouTube Movies and others. He and his team ensure that our film assets always excel, so that the viewer experience is the best it can be, and that our powerful docs are given the best exposure they can get on these key TVOD platfoms.

Husam Taha

Editor and Technician

As Journeyman's in-house Editor and Film Delivery Technician, Husam is our in-house QC pro, ensuring that our films meet the requirements of our myriad of clients and servicing deliveries directly to clients all over the world. Husam also works on in-house edits, reversioning films for the broadcast market.

The Journeyman Team