Biography

James Rogan is a multi-award winning filmmaker known for films and series such as iEmmy and Rose d'Or winning Freddie Mercury: The Final Act and Uprising, which he directed with Sir Steve McQueen. The landmark series picked up many awards including a BAFTA and a Realscreen Award in the Non-fiction Archive-based category to name just two.

James is the Creative Director of Rogan Productions a multi-award-winning production company, with recent credits including feature documentaries My Daughter's Killer for Netflix, Black Power: A British Story of Resistance for BBC and Farage for Channel 4. James has also 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 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 the 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.

- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous