Welcome to Deadline’s International Disruptors, a feature where we shine a spotlight on the key executives and companies outside of the U.S. shaking up the offshore marketplace. This week, we’re talking with James and Soleta Rogan, the founders of prolific UK documentary indie Rogan Productions, with past credits including Black Power, Stephen: The Murder that Changed a Nation and Netflix’s My Daughter’s Killer. The pair discuss a rollercoaster 10 years in which they have secured multiple BAFTAs, worked with Steve McQueen and are now winning big business from the streamers.
The 2018 Grierson Awards – Britain’s most prestigious ceremony in the documentary-making calendar – will be remembered for a heartwrenching moment when Baroness Doreen Lawrence spoke beautifully about the legacy of her son Stephen, as she collected two gongs for BBC documentary Stephen: The Murder that Changed a Nation.
Lawrence was introduced on stage by softy spoken Stephen director James Rogan,...
The 2018 Grierson Awards – Britain’s most prestigious ceremony in the documentary-making calendar – will be remembered for a heartwrenching moment when Baroness Doreen Lawrence spoke beautifully about the legacy of her son Stephen, as she collected two gongs for BBC documentary Stephen: The Murder that Changed a Nation.
Lawrence was introduced on stage by softy spoken Stephen director James Rogan,...
- 1/18/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Vera really likes to keep us waiting. Series 11 of this beloved British detective series began broadcasting back in summer 2021, and after four episodes were released between then and January 2022, there’s been a year-long unexplained wait for the last two feature-length episodes of the series, which finally began airing on ITV1 on Sunday 15th January.
But like buses, you wait for one series of Vera and two arrive at once, as straight after Series 11 finishes we’ll be getting four more weekly episodes making up Series 12 as well, starting on 29th January.
Not only that, there’s another Vera instalment, The Rising Tide, on the way later this year, based on Ann Cleeves’s latest Vera novel of the same name.
So what can we expect from the upcoming episodes of Vera? More gruesome murders, of course, and more stunning Northumberland scenery, but there’s also going to be more...
But like buses, you wait for one series of Vera and two arrive at once, as straight after Series 11 finishes we’ll be getting four more weekly episodes making up Series 12 as well, starting on 29th January.
Not only that, there’s another Vera instalment, The Rising Tide, on the way later this year, based on Ann Cleeves’s latest Vera novel of the same name.
So what can we expect from the upcoming episodes of Vera? More gruesome murders, of course, and more stunning Northumberland scenery, but there’s also going to be more...
- 1/16/2023
- by Lauravickersgreen
- Den of Geek
Tony Hall has set out his blueprint for boosting diversity at the BBC, including creating a £2.1m commissioning fund to help ensure the corporation “represents every family and community in the UK”.
The director general unveiled the package of measures in a speech at Elstree Studios on Friday, where he said “it’s time for action” on diversity. It follows the issue being thrust to the forefront of the broadcasting agenda over the past 12 months.
As well as the £2.1m Diversity Creative Talent Fund, the BBC has created two leadership development programmes, introduced new staff diversity targets and an intern scheme. Hall will also create an independent board to keep the BBC’s progress in check.
Hall’s measures at a glance
£2.1m diversity fundCreation of independent diversity boardLeadership and commissioning development schemesFresh diversity targets
He has stopped short of introducing Lenny Henry’s proposal to ring-fence a percentage of the BBC’s annual commissioning budget for programmes...
The director general unveiled the package of measures in a speech at Elstree Studios on Friday, where he said “it’s time for action” on diversity. It follows the issue being thrust to the forefront of the broadcasting agenda over the past 12 months.
As well as the £2.1m Diversity Creative Talent Fund, the BBC has created two leadership development programmes, introduced new staff diversity targets and an intern scheme. Hall will also create an independent board to keep the BBC’s progress in check.
Hall’s measures at a glance
£2.1m diversity fundCreation of independent diversity boardLeadership and commissioning development schemesFresh diversity targets
He has stopped short of introducing Lenny Henry’s proposal to ring-fence a percentage of the BBC’s annual commissioning budget for programmes...
- 6/20/2014
- ScreenDaily
Dante Tomaselli has been making movies since the late '90s. But, he has been garnering a lot of attention over the past seven years, with extremely intelligent, visceral, unrelenting films like Satan’s Playground and the much buzzed about Torture Chamber. Tomaselli is a director to watch. He is quickly becoming a household name to horror fans. He makes thought provoking, intense films that say much more than what we see on the surface. FEARnet caught up with the genre great to get the details on his latest film Torture Chamber and his upcoming film, a redux of Alice, Sweet Alice. Tomaselli filled us in on why scoring his projects is so important to him, when we can expect Torture Chamber to be released, why the budget for Alice is going to be his biggest yet, and why he decided to relocate Alice to the 1970s for his re-imagining.
- 4/26/2013
- by Tyler Doupe
- FEARnet
An Oxford law graduate who was arrested during the 2011 riots in London, has made a documentary that challenges the depiction of the rioters as mindless criminals
Salim Ormanli speaks calmly andquietly to the camera: "I was thinking, shit, man, I just want to wake up. I hope this is a dream. I hope I got hit on the head or something in the riots … But it was real." The 23-year-old Londoner's candid account of the shock and hardship of being in prison following the summer riots of 2011 is one of many that have emerged in the wake of the unrest that spread across the country a year and a half ago.
This time the interview is unusual because it is for a documentary made by a fellow arrestee, Fahim Alam , who spent six weeks in prison on remand and a further six months on an electronic tag after being wrongly...
Salim Ormanli speaks calmly andquietly to the camera: "I was thinking, shit, man, I just want to wake up. I hope this is a dream. I hope I got hit on the head or something in the riots … But it was real." The 23-year-old Londoner's candid account of the shock and hardship of being in prison following the summer riots of 2011 is one of many that have emerged in the wake of the unrest that spread across the country a year and a half ago.
This time the interview is unusual because it is for a documentary made by a fellow arrestee, Fahim Alam , who spent six weeks in prison on remand and a further six months on an electronic tag after being wrongly...
- 3/13/2013
- by Mary O'Hara
- The Guardian - Film News
Filmmaker Paul Greengrass, who was born in Surrey and directed such movies as The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum and Green Zone, has received an honorary degree from Kingston University London.
Recognised for his outstanding contribution to television and cinema, Greengrass told an audience at the graduation ceremony that universities like Kingston had a vital role to play in preparing young people to work in the creative industries.
"Youngsters starting out probably aren't going to be supported and developed like I was in my early career, they're much more likely to be chewed up," he said. "This places a greater weight on universities like Kingston, which is a breeding ground for talent, to educate kids about the importance of point of view - it's the easiest thing to lose but the most important thing to hold on to."
Famous for his quasi-documentary technique, Paul is not only known for two...
Recognised for his outstanding contribution to television and cinema, Greengrass told an audience at the graduation ceremony that universities like Kingston had a vital role to play in preparing young people to work in the creative industries.
"Youngsters starting out probably aren't going to be supported and developed like I was in my early career, they're much more likely to be chewed up," he said. "This places a greater weight on universities like Kingston, which is a breeding ground for talent, to educate kids about the importance of point of view - it's the easiest thing to lose but the most important thing to hold on to."
Famous for his quasi-documentary technique, Paul is not only known for two...
- 12/10/2012
- by David Bentley
- The Geek Files
Maureen Lipman as Lord Leveson. Hugh Grant as himself. For Rebekah Brooks, who else but Mark Gatiss as Charles I? Help us regulate the cast of the Leveson inquiry
Whatever else the Leveson inquiry turns out to have been – we're doing a lot of speed reading as I type – it was fine theatre. A Hogarthian cast of characters, from Britain's lordliest media barons to subalterns on the yellowest of yellow rags. A decent smattering of celebs. The odd outburst of tears. A superlative solo performance from the capricious Robert Jay, who managed to make witness-questioning look (to twist a phrase) like reading the thesaurus by flashes of lightning.
Which only leaves one question: who's going to option the script? The Tricycle theatre in London made drama out of the Bloody Sunday and Stephen Lawrence inquiries, after all; Spielberg's studio has optioned the Wikileaks saga. Surely it's only a matter of time.
Whatever else the Leveson inquiry turns out to have been – we're doing a lot of speed reading as I type – it was fine theatre. A Hogarthian cast of characters, from Britain's lordliest media barons to subalterns on the yellowest of yellow rags. A decent smattering of celebs. The odd outburst of tears. A superlative solo performance from the capricious Robert Jay, who managed to make witness-questioning look (to twist a phrase) like reading the thesaurus by flashes of lightning.
Which only leaves one question: who's going to option the script? The Tricycle theatre in London made drama out of the Bloody Sunday and Stephen Lawrence inquiries, after all; Spielberg's studio has optioned the Wikileaks saga. Surely it's only a matter of time.
- 11/29/2012
- by Andrew Dickson
- The Guardian - Film News
We are lucky enough at Upodcast to be covering the London Indian Film Festival which is on now until the 3rd of July. There are a ton of amazing movies scheduled as well as live music performances and Q&A’s with movie directors and much much more.
After having a rocking start with the premiere of Gangs Of WasseyPur, the festival is still showing some very interesting Indian as well as British production that are Indian at heart but moving away form the conventions of Bollywood!
So head over to their website (click here for the London Indian Film Festival site) or follow their twitter feed!
Upodcast has some great coverage including:
Gangs Of WasseyPur Review Anurag Kashyap Podcast Interview Gattu Review Dekh Indian Circus Review and much more to follow!
Here is some news from the press team:
The 3rd Edition of the London Indian Film Festival (20 June...
After having a rocking start with the premiere of Gangs Of WasseyPur, the festival is still showing some very interesting Indian as well as British production that are Indian at heart but moving away form the conventions of Bollywood!
So head over to their website (click here for the London Indian Film Festival site) or follow their twitter feed!
Upodcast has some great coverage including:
Gangs Of WasseyPur Review Anurag Kashyap Podcast Interview Gattu Review Dekh Indian Circus Review and much more to follow!
Here is some news from the press team:
The 3rd Edition of the London Indian Film Festival (20 June...
- 6/28/2012
- by Asim Burney
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
BollySpice is proud to be media partners for the exciting London Indian Film Festival, which has a simple and focused brief, to show the very best of new Indian independent films, especially made by a younger generation of filmmakers. We have supported the festival since its inception and are excited once again to be involved in the third year as the festival brings, from the 20th of June to the 3rd of July, Indie Indian films to London. This year’s festival program is even more exciting because, of course, not only do the cutting edge outside of Bollywood films that have been chosen rock, but they have also brought in innovative and artistic programs to add to the feast for the senses. More on that in a bit first let’s take a look at some of the highlights of Liff.
The 3rd Liff serves up an explosive cocktail that includes circuses,...
The 3rd Liff serves up an explosive cocktail that includes circuses,...
- 6/1/2012
- by Stacey Yount
- Bollyspice
Get ready because some of the best of Indie Indian films are coming to London! Celebrating the burgeoning movement of alternative Indian cinema, the third annual London Indian Film Festival, will run from 20 June – 3 July. Supported by Film London and Western Union, the festival brings to UK audiences a selection of cutting edge films from some of India’s hottest independent talents. Going way beyond Bollywood, these are films that challenge, shock, generate debate and present a more realistic view of India today in all its colour and diversity. This year we are also broadening our horizons to include World Premieres of two UK Asian movies and films from neighbouring Asian countries.
India is the largest film producing country in the world producing some 1,200 films a year, outstripping Hollywood. But apart from mainstream Bollywood, very few of these films are seen in the UK. Cary Rajinder Sawhney, Festival Director comments,...
India is the largest film producing country in the world producing some 1,200 films a year, outstripping Hollywood. But apart from mainstream Bollywood, very few of these films are seen in the UK. Cary Rajinder Sawhney, Festival Director comments,...
- 5/15/2012
- by Stacey Yount
- Bollyspice
Nothing, it seems, can stand in the way of the Margaret Thatcher biopic: you literally couldn't avoid it
The big story
There was only one film in town this week: The Iron Lady. Guardian political grandee Michael White failed to square the screen Thatcher with the one he knew, Alex von Tunzelmann told us there was more to Margaret Thatcher than a fabulous blow dry, Meryl Streep raced to the front of the queue in the best actress Oscar betting, the Thatcher family apparently turned down an invitation to watch the film, and the premiere – on a blue carpet – triggered the usual shenanigans. Our man Peter Bradshaw, though, has the definitive word on the film.
In the news
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 should get an Oscar, say its makers
Warner Bros deny cleaning up the audio on The Dark Knight Rises, after complaints no one could understand...
The big story
There was only one film in town this week: The Iron Lady. Guardian political grandee Michael White failed to square the screen Thatcher with the one he knew, Alex von Tunzelmann told us there was more to Margaret Thatcher than a fabulous blow dry, Meryl Streep raced to the front of the queue in the best actress Oscar betting, the Thatcher family apparently turned down an invitation to watch the film, and the premiere – on a blue carpet – triggered the usual shenanigans. Our man Peter Bradshaw, though, has the definitive word on the film.
In the news
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 should get an Oscar, say its makers
Warner Bros deny cleaning up the audio on The Dark Knight Rises, after complaints no one could understand...
- 1/5/2012
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
I am reminded of a sensational documentary, now a decade old, on deaths in British police custody – haven't seen it? Ask why
The news about the Lawrence verdict and sentencing took me back to the mid-1990s – the case has been hanging for such a shameful length of time – when we journalists stood around gaping at Paul Dacre's sensational "Murderers" headline in the Daily Mail, and discussing what it all meant. (The paper challenged the five suspects to sue: did that mean sue for criminal libel? For which legal aid was available? Well, they didn't sue.)
My next thought was to pick up the phone and call the film-maker Ken Fero, who, with Tariq Mehmood, directed one of the most sensational documentaries I think I've ever reviewed: the 2001 film Injustice: The Movie. This was about the extraordinary, continuing phenomenon of black and Asian people dying mysteriously in police custody without any prosecution being brought.
The news about the Lawrence verdict and sentencing took me back to the mid-1990s – the case has been hanging for such a shameful length of time – when we journalists stood around gaping at Paul Dacre's sensational "Murderers" headline in the Daily Mail, and discussing what it all meant. (The paper challenged the five suspects to sue: did that mean sue for criminal libel? For which legal aid was available? Well, they didn't sue.)
My next thought was to pick up the phone and call the film-maker Ken Fero, who, with Tariq Mehmood, directed one of the most sensational documentaries I think I've ever reviewed: the 2001 film Injustice: The Movie. This was about the extraordinary, continuing phenomenon of black and Asian people dying mysteriously in police custody without any prosecution being brought.
- 1/5/2012
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
ITV1's Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? celebrity New Year's special entertained 3.47m (13.5%) last night, according to overnight data. The Chris Tarrant-hosted quiz show also attracted an additional 180k (0.7%) on +1. River Monsters preceded it with 2.86m (11.4%) from 7.30pm (+1: 124k/0.5%), while The Biggest Loser ended up with 2.8m (11.2%) from 9pm (+1: 165k/0.9%). The 9pm timeslot saw a late change on BBC One, as a Panorama instalment on Stephen Lawrence replaced Anna Friel's Public Enemies. Panorama was watched by 2.62m (10.5%). Elsewhere on the channel, Celebrity Mastermind quizzed 5.23m (22%) from 7pm, Holby City treated 5.44m (21.2%) from 8pm and Lee Mack Going Out Live had 2.02m (15.3%). Hairy Bikers' Best of British began BBC Two's night with 2.04m (8.4%). Nature's (more)...
- 1/4/2012
- by By Ben Lee
- Digital Spy
As Hugh Grant and Milly Dowler's family give evidence, we must remember it is the courts who mete out justice, not the press
Magna Carta, Ken Clarke observed to the press types assembled at last week's Society of Editors conference, was a pretty conservative document: the product of a baronial revolt against monarchical excess. Given the document's influence, it might have appeared somewhat bold for the Society to bill its conference as Magna Carta II, though the venue did happen to be in Runnymede 800 years on. Yet the comparison may not be quite so unlikely, given what is about to happen in the high court this week, where a revolt of a different sort of aristocracy is about to begin from two groups of people accorded automatic respect today: victims and celebrities.
It may seem bizarre for the Leveson inquiry to move on to the Dowler family and Hugh Grant,...
Magna Carta, Ken Clarke observed to the press types assembled at last week's Society of Editors conference, was a pretty conservative document: the product of a baronial revolt against monarchical excess. Given the document's influence, it might have appeared somewhat bold for the Society to bill its conference as Magna Carta II, though the venue did happen to be in Runnymede 800 years on. Yet the comparison may not be quite so unlikely, given what is about to happen in the high court this week, where a revolt of a different sort of aristocracy is about to begin from two groups of people accorded automatic respect today: victims and celebrities.
It may seem bizarre for the Leveson inquiry to move on to the Dowler family and Hugh Grant,...
- 11/21/2011
- by Dan Sabbagh
- The Guardian - Film News
I know there is an article in this week's Spectator that has prompted a judge to refer the magazine to the attorney general for a possible contempt of court.
Not being a member of the jury, I have read it. And I must say I am amazed that... no, on second thoughts perhaps I'd better stop there. I'd prefer to let the Ag, Dominic Grieve, make up his mind about the judge's reference without clouding the issue further.
I don't wish to end up standing alongside Rod Liddle in court, or anywhere for that matter.
More positively, I urge those who have a copy of the magazine, which I suspect is many more than usual, to turn to page 50.
Indeed, to paraphrase Mr Justice Treacy's admonition to the jury in the Stephen Lawrence murder trial, I'm not asking you to read it, I am directing you to read it.
On...
Not being a member of the jury, I have read it. And I must say I am amazed that... no, on second thoughts perhaps I'd better stop there. I'd prefer to let the Ag, Dominic Grieve, make up his mind about the judge's reference without clouding the issue further.
I don't wish to end up standing alongside Rod Liddle in court, or anywhere for that matter.
More positively, I urge those who have a copy of the magazine, which I suspect is many more than usual, to turn to page 50.
Indeed, to paraphrase Mr Justice Treacy's admonition to the jury in the Stephen Lawrence murder trial, I'm not asking you to read it, I am directing you to read it.
On...
- 11/18/2011
- by Roy Greenslade
- The Guardian - Film News
In today's podcast, in the week when Roman Polanksi's new film of Robert Harris's novel, The Ghost, is released, Claire Armitstead discusses the film with to the Guardian's critic, Peter Bradshaw.
She also talks to the journalist Simon Hattenstone, who ghost-wrote Ronnie O'Sullivan's autobiography and the autobiography of Dwayne Brooks (the boy who was attacked with Stephen Lawrence on the night Lawrence was murdered), about the art of the ghost-writer. And John Crace digests the relationship between Wayne Rooney and his ghost-writer, Hunter Davies.
Reading list
Ronnie: The Autobiography of Ronnie O'Sullivan
Steve and Me: My Friendship with Stephen Lawrence and the Search for Justice by Duwayne Brooks
Wayne Rooney: My Story by Wayne Rooney and Hunter Davies
Claire ArmitsteadPeter BradshawSimon HattenstoneScott CawleyJohn Crace...
She also talks to the journalist Simon Hattenstone, who ghost-wrote Ronnie O'Sullivan's autobiography and the autobiography of Dwayne Brooks (the boy who was attacked with Stephen Lawrence on the night Lawrence was murdered), about the art of the ghost-writer. And John Crace digests the relationship between Wayne Rooney and his ghost-writer, Hunter Davies.
Reading list
Ronnie: The Autobiography of Ronnie O'Sullivan
Steve and Me: My Friendship with Stephen Lawrence and the Search for Justice by Duwayne Brooks
Wayne Rooney: My Story by Wayne Rooney and Hunter Davies
Claire ArmitsteadPeter BradshawSimon HattenstoneScott CawleyJohn Crace...
- 4/16/2010
- by Claire Armitstead, Peter Bradshaw, Simon Hattenstone, Scott Cawley, John Crace
- The Guardian - Film News
I was reminded by an email I received today of an enquiry I received over the weekend from a regular S&A reader about an upcoming British film called Sus. I’d never heard of the film before last Saturday and could only assume that it was about the so called “sus laws” which were used prolifically in the 1970s and allowed policemen to stop and search, and even arrest, people they suspected were about to commit a crime. These sus laws were used most heavily, and randomly, against black men in the 70s, causing much discord between Black British communities and the police, and it wasn’t until riots in Bristol, London and Liverpool in 1981 that these laws were dropped.
Turns out I was right. And in my online search for information about the film, it turns out that the screenplay was written by Barrie Keeffe, who penned the seminal 1980 British mobster flick,...
Turns out I was right. And in my online search for information about the film, it turns out that the screenplay was written by Barrie Keeffe, who penned the seminal 1980 British mobster flick,...
- 3/11/2010
- by MsWOO
- ShadowAndAct
His new film about Iraq was made out of a sense of affront and anger
If this was a Paul Greengrass film, it would start like this. An aerial shot over central London. Digital letters flash up at the bottom of the screen saying: "London, 1400 GMT". A few cellos begin stirring ominously on the soundtrack. Then a hand-held camera tracks an oblivious reporter walking through Mayfair. Somewhere, a man with an earpiece looks at a flashing dot on a screen and says, "Subject proceeding east towards Claridges." Drums start up on the soundtrack. A short clip of Greengrass himself, perhaps finishing off his lunch. The shaky camera follows the reporter into Claridges, pitching through the revolving door to chase him up the stairs. The drums get heavier. The camera dashes down corridors after him. Greengrass strolls casually towards his suite. The drumming reaches a deafening frenzy, as if a tribal...
If this was a Paul Greengrass film, it would start like this. An aerial shot over central London. Digital letters flash up at the bottom of the screen saying: "London, 1400 GMT". A few cellos begin stirring ominously on the soundtrack. Then a hand-held camera tracks an oblivious reporter walking through Mayfair. Somewhere, a man with an earpiece looks at a flashing dot on a screen and says, "Subject proceeding east towards Claridges." Drums start up on the soundtrack. A short clip of Greengrass himself, perhaps finishing off his lunch. The shaky camera follows the reporter into Claridges, pitching through the revolving door to chase him up the stairs. The drums get heavier. The camera dashes down corridors after him. Greengrass strolls casually towards his suite. The drumming reaches a deafening frenzy, as if a tribal...
- 3/8/2010
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
The fact that film history barely acknowledges co-writer/director Alfred Sole's sophisticated, unbelievably disturbing 1976 dark thriller/murder mystery Alice, Sweet Alice as the major work of psychological horror it is, is patently ridiculous and borderline offensive.
The grim, grisly and offbeat movie (originally released under the title Communion then re-issued as Holy Terror before getting stuck with the moniker it now bears) is an eerie, emotionally draining and thoroughly fascinating picture that needs far more love ladled on it than the lowly level it now seems to command.
Sole's prickly, melodramatic fractured masterpiece tells the tale of New Jersey divorcee Catherine Spages (Linda Miller) and her two daughters, sweet little Karen (played by a pre-Pretty Baby Brooke Shields in her movie debut) and the slightly older (and more than slightly disturbed) Alice (Paula Sheppard, who would grow up to star in the counterculture punk rock / Sci-Fi classic Liquid Sky...
The grim, grisly and offbeat movie (originally released under the title Communion then re-issued as Holy Terror before getting stuck with the moniker it now bears) is an eerie, emotionally draining and thoroughly fascinating picture that needs far more love ladled on it than the lowly level it now seems to command.
Sole's prickly, melodramatic fractured masterpiece tells the tale of New Jersey divorcee Catherine Spages (Linda Miller) and her two daughters, sweet little Karen (played by a pre-Pretty Baby Brooke Shields in her movie debut) and the slightly older (and more than slightly disturbed) Alice (Paula Sheppard, who would grow up to star in the counterculture punk rock / Sci-Fi classic Liquid Sky...
- 11/16/2008
- Fangoria
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