About Us

Positively Reel Productions is an independent production company with a purpose and passion to produce first rate, compelling, authentic and innovative reality, documentary and branded content.

Based both in Atlanta, US and Queenstown, NZ, the company combines the creative forces of multi-award winning producer, Alex Bolton-Hogg, and veteran editor, Henry Bolton, and collaborates with production partners across the US, Canada, UK, New Zealand and beyond to produce content for the broadcast and digital platforms in local and global markets.

CONTENT IS KING… AND QUEEN

TURNING REALLY GOOD IDEAS INTO
POSITIVELY GOOD PRODUCTIONS.

our team

POSITIVELY GOOD PEOPLE.

Alex Bolton-Hogg

PRESIDENT / EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

Alex is a multi-award winning television producer with two decades of experience and over 200 hours of prime time reality shows many of which have sold internationally. Her awards include ‘Hors Concours’ at Banff World TV Awards and the Houston Film Festival ‘Best Reality Based Program’.

Alex’s career began working for the COO of Working Title Films in London, then in 1998 she moved to Auckland, New Zealand where she discovered a passion for television whilst working in development and production at Screentime Communicado. From there, she was a Showrunner across many genres including lifestyle, entertainment, investigation, home reno, docu-follow and documentary and credits include Next Top Model, The Filth Files, Highway Patrol, Showtime, Hot Property, Target, Crowded House. Through her own production company, Alex created and produced the internationally acclaimed hit series ‘Downsize Me’ and spin-off ‘Downsize My Pet’.

In 2013, Alex relocated to LA and focused on developing a slate of new properties and co-founded ‘Positively Reel Productions’ with Henry in 2015 and began collaborating with high profile companies such as Critical Content and Great Pacific Media to take their shows to market. Alex is currently based in Atlanta, USA and works as an agency producer for The Home Depot as well as developing and producing content for local and global clients.

Alex’s greatest asset is her skillset from finding the perfect ‘real world’ or celebrity talent, packaging and pitching original new content, to directing, shooting and producing in the field, and compelling story crafting in the edit to final delivery to the client. She brings a wealth of experience to every new production, always strives for excellence and is dedicated to creating fresh, bold, beautiful, innovative and exciting content.

Henry Bolton

Co-Founder / POST PRODUCTION

New Zealand born Henry has over 20 years experience in both scripted and unscripted television editing in the USA, New Zealand and the UK working in a variety of reality genres including docu-follow, lifestyle, entertainment, travel, investigation, competition and documentary.

Growing up with a passion for film and storytelling, he studied at the South Seas Film & Television School learning all aspects of production and specialized in post production. His first position from college was as lead editor on one of TV3’s top rating consumer shows, ‘Target’, turning around 44 episodes a year. From then worked on over 400 hours of top rating television including Next Top Model, Downsize Me, The Food Truck, Highway Cops, Border Patrol and The Year that Was.

Since moving to the US in 2013, Henry has edited more than a dozen shows for Discovery, Lifetime, TLC, VH1, MTV, BET, FYI and Animal Planet. Most recently he was lead editor on ‘American Chopper’ and other credits include ‘COPS’, ‘Little Women: Atlanta’, ‘Signed’, ‘Dance Moms’, ‘Kingin’ With Tyga’ and ‘Chasing Destiny’.

Henry runs the post production for ‘Postively Reel Productions’ and works in both scripted and unscripted content.

Henry is a sought after and highly experienced editor in unscripted and scripted content and corporate branding, with a strong sense of story, an ability to create and adapt to different show styles and client briefs, and crafts every project with the utmost attention to detail.