James Rogan is an award-winning director, producer and founder of Rogan Productions. James has extensive experience making landmark series and international feature documentaries.
Most recently James directed a landmark series about one of the highest profile murders in Britain; Stephen: The Murder That Changed a Nation for BBC One, which picked up 2 Grierson awards for ‘Best Historical Documentary’ & ‘Best Documentary Series’. He executive produced and co-directed One Night in 2012, a feature-length Imagine Special for BBC1 about Danny Boyle’s Opening ceremony for the London Olympics. He produced The Confession, a cinema documentary about former Guantanamo detainee Moazzam Begg’s experiences living through the war on terror for BBC Storyville, BFI and Creative England. He was the Series Director of Her Story: The Female Revolution, a 4 part series for JWT and BBC World News that looked at the changing status of women in 21st Century through the prism of politics, the personal life, religion and the workplace, featuring contributors ranging from Hillary Clinton to Christine Lagarde. He executive produced Waiting for Invasion an observational documentary for Al Jazeera’s Witness strand and the Lithuanian Film Fund about young army conscripts in Lithuania training to defend their country from Russian aggression. He developed and executive produced The Craftsmen’s Dinner, a highly successful web series featuring Michelin-starred chef Michel Roux Jnr. travelling around the UK to find the best culinary craftspeople to create a unique craft-inspired dinner for The Balvenie whisky brand. Also for The Balvenie he is making a series of innovative shorts about the transmission of rare crafts to apprentices.
He was the Executive Producer Gun Shop a fixed rig documentary for Channel 4’s Cutting Edge strand that captures daily life in a Michigan gun shop against a backdrop of increasing mass shootings and police killings across America. He was the Executive Producer on Refugee Diaries a series of shorts for BBC3 chronicling the experience of a Syrian refugee after he arrives in the UK. He is also Executive Producing Year Zero Thirty-Six a feature documentary about a Cambodian circus school who are staging an unusual theatre production to confront their country’s troubled history.
James’s previous work includes Monty Python: The Meaning of Live, Welcome to Mayfair, A Very British Airline (British Airways), A Season at the Balvenie, Life in the Freezer Cabinet – Inside Iceland Foods, The Trouble with Pirates and Amnesty! When They Are All Free.
He directed the acclaimed fiction short The Open Doors starring Michael Sheen and the low-budget thriller (fiction feature film) Dead Bolt Dead.
He established Rogan Productions in 2013 to make high quality films across a range of platforms, from cinema to online, from broadcast to brands. Since then the company has grown rapidly making dozens of films for broadcasters, agencies and brands.
He runs the company with his wife Soleta Rogan, the Managing Director.
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