James Rogan

James is an award-winning producer and director. He has produced and directed three international documentaries for BBC Storyville: Amnesty!, When They Are All Free, The Trouble with Pirates, and Blog Wars. Recently, he co-directed with Roger Graef OBE the acclaimed feature documentary Monty Python: The Meaning of Live about the legendary comedy group's last performance, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and has been distributed all over the world.

Through his company Rogan Productions, James has produced a diverse portfolio of work for broadcast, including Young, Clever and Libyan, a BBC series about young Libyans trying to rebuild their shattered country; Waiting for Invasion, a film commissioned by Al Jazeera and the Lithuanian Film Fund about the reintroduction of conscription in Lithuania; The Confession, a BFI & BBC Storyville commission about the Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg (the film had its world premiere at Sheffield Doc/Fest 2016 and was nominee for the Grand Jury Award).

James is also currently overseeing two new projects: One Night in 2012, a BBC Imagine special about the Olympics opening ceremony; and GunShop, a documentary about gun ownership in the US which will form part of Channel 4’s Cutting Edge strand this Autumn.