James Rogan is a BAFTA-nominated film director, producer and screenwriter, with a track record of crafting multi-award-winning series and feature documentaries that have been shown around the world. Over the past year James has been directing a soon-to-be-announced three-part documentary series alongside Academy Award-winner Steve McQueen, as well as producing two films, BLACK POWER: A BRITISH STORY OF RESISTANCE and SUBNORMAL, to sit alongside McQueen’s Small Axe series of films.
James has also recently directed 4 of the 8 episodes of the ground-breaking music series 1971: THE YEAR THAT MUSIC CHANGED EVERYTHING, working with James Gay-Rees and Asif Kapadia (the Academy Award-winning team behind Amy and Senna).
James is probably best known for directing STEPHEN: THE MURDER THAT CHANGED A NATION for BBC1. The landmark series picked up multiple awards, including a BAFTA and an RTS nomination for best director and two Grierson awards for Best Historical Documentary and Best Documentary Series.
Among his other directing credits are: Rose d’Or nominated feature documentary MONTY PYTHON: THE MEANING OF LIVE and RTS-nominated arts documentary ONE NIGHT IN 2012. He also has directed three feature documentaries for the Academy Award-winning BBC Storyville strand: BLOG WARS, THE TROUBLE WITH PIRATES and AMNESTY: WHEN THEY ARE ALL FREE.
As the creative director and executive producer at Rogan Productions, James has produced many groundbreaking films including Realscreen award-winner PUTIN: A RUSSIAN SPY STORY for Channel 4 in the UK; the double-Grierson award-winning STABBED: BRITAIN’S KNIFE CRIME CRISIS for BBC1; DARK SECRETS OF A TRILLION DOLLAR ISLAND: GARENNE for BBC Storyville and ZDF/ARTE; THE CONFESSION for BBC Storyville, BFI, and Creative England.
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.
