James Rogan is a multi-award winning filmmaker recognized for his work on a variety of films and series, including Freddie Mercury: The Final Act and Uprising, which he directed alongside Sir Steve McQueen. The latter, a landmark series, garnered numerous accolades, including a BAFTA and a Realscreen Award in the Non-fiction Archive-based category, to name a few.
As the Creative Director of Rogan Productions, a multi-award-winning production company, James has recently worked on feature documentaries such as My Daughter's Killer for Netflix, Black Power: A British Story of Resistance for BBC, and Farage for Channel 4. He has also directed four episodes of the groundbreaking music series 1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything, collaborating with James Gay-Rees and Asif Kapadia, the Academy Award-winning team behind Amy and Senna.
James is perhaps most well-known for directing Stephen: The Murder That Changed A Nation for BBC1, a series that received multiple awards, including a BAFTA and an RTS nomination for best director, as well as two Grierson awards for Best Historical Documentary and Best Documentary Series.
Among his other directing credits are the Rose d'Or-nominated feature documentary Monty Python: The Meaning Of Live, the RTS-nominated arts documentary One Night in 2012, and 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 numerous groundbreaking films, including the Realscreen award-winning Putin: A Russian Spy Story for Channel 4, 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.
James established Rogan Productions in 2013 to create high-quality films across a range of platforms, from cinema to online, from broadcast to brands. Since then, the company has rapidly grown, producing dozens of films for broadcasters, agencies, and brands.
James runs the company alongside his wife Soleta Rogan, the Managing Director.
