Ben Link

Ben Link is a London-based producer with more than 25 years in commercials and film. He has produced for many of the industry’s leading companies, including Gorgeous, RSA, Academy, Blink, Smuggler, Hungry Man, Stink and Furlined, working alongside top directors such as Frank Budgen, Jake Scott, Dougal Wilson, Jon Glazer, Bryan Buckley, Henry-Alex Rubin and Peter Thwaites.

In 2017 he co-founded Missing Link Films with Heather Link, a production company set up to develop and support new and unrepresented talent. Over eight years it produced more than 100 campaigns and launched the careers of several directors. Campaign Magazine named it the 5th Top UK Production Company in 2024.

Ben started out in feature films, working on Event Horizon, Sleepy Hollow and the Tomorrow Never Dies title sequence. That background gives him a calm, practical approach to large-scale and complex shoots. He has filmed across more than 20 countries, from Chile and Vietnam to India, New Zealand and even Diego Garcia.

Selected highlights

• John Lewis “The Long Wait” (Dougal Wilson, Blink): one of the UK’s best-loved Christmas ads.

• Flake, the infamous banned ad (Jon Glazer, Academy)