DEVELOPMENT EXECUTIVES
Kate Ogborn
Kate is an independent film producer who has produced and executive produced award winning feature films and television drama. In 2009 Kate and producer Lisa Marie Russo joined forces and set up Fly Film Company. Fly Film is currently in post production with Gillian Wearing’s debut feature film, Self Made
Kate recently produced Samantha Morton’s directorial debut, The Unloved, written by Tony Grisoni for Revolution Films, Channel 4 and EM Media. The Unloved was broadcast on Channel 4 in May 2009 to over 2m viewers and is one of the Channel’s most successful single dramas. Kate was also the co-producer of the critically acclaimed Red Riding Trilogy, adapted by Tony Grisoni from David Peace’s novels.
Kate ran Revolution Films Television division, developing a slate of original dramas for Channel 4 and has worked as an independent producer with The Bureau, where she is developing Tony Grisoni’s first feature, Kingsland , which follows his Bafta nominated short film.
Kate has executive produced Brothers Of The Head (2005), A Cock And Bull Story, and the award winning This is England for EM Media. Kate was also instrumental in the setting up of Warp X, the low budget film scheme financed by Film Four, UK Film Council, EM Media, Screen Yorkshire.
Prior to joining The Bureau. Kate produced Chris Cooke's (2003) and Carine Adler's award winning Under the Skin (1997) and was executive producer on This Is Not A Love Song (2002) written by Simon Beaufoy and directed by Bille Eltringham. From 1989 to 2000 Kate was the executive producer of the BFI and Film Four's New Directors' scheme and in 2001 was the executive producer of the Orange Film Four short film prize.
Udayan Prasad
Born in India, Udayan came to Britain at the age of nine. After attending art school in Leeds and the National Film and Television School, he made a number of documentaries, including A Corner Of A Foreign Field (1985), about Pakistanis in Britain and Invisible Ink (1987), about the literature produced by writers from the Indian sub-continent on the British in Britain.
During the early nineties he directed a number of high-prestige dramas for BBC TV, working with Britain's top writers. His creative partnership with Simon Gray was particularly fruitful resulting in: They Never Slept (1990), a merciless parody of the British secret service during World War II starring Edward Fox; Femme Fatale (1992), with Simon Callow and Donald Pleasence; Running Late (1992), starring Peter Bowles in a picaresque black comedy which won a Golden Gate Award for Best TV Feature at the San Francisco International Film Festival.
He won a second Golden Gate Award for 102 Boulevard Haussmann (1991), starring Alan Bates and scripted by Alan Bennett. 102 Boulevard Haussmann was also nominated for a BAFTA for best single TV drama. In 1998 he again collaborated with Alan Bennett, directing Talking Heads – Playing Sandwiches which resulted in a second BAFTA nomination for best single TV drama.
His first theatrical feature was the critically acclaimed, Brothers In Trouble (1995), a tragi-comic story set in the Sixties of an illegal immigrant struggling to survive in a grim northern English town. Brothers In Trouble won the Golden Alexander Award for best first feature at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival. His second theatrical feature, My Son The Fanatic, was selected for Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival in 1997 and won the best feature award at the Potsdam Film Festival.
The film was distributed in Europe and the United States to great critical acclaim. Gabriel & Me, his third feature, starring Billy Connolly and Iain Glen, was followed in 2001 by a documentary, According to Beryl. About Dr Samuel Johnson’s relationship with Mrs Thrale, the film featured Dame Beryl Bainbridge and was centred around her novel According To Queenie. In 2005 he made his fourth feature, OPA!, starring Matthew Modine and Richard Griffiths, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival the same year.
His fifth feature is The Yellow Handkerchief, starring William Hurt, Maria Bello, Kristen Stewart and Eddie Redmayne. Produced by Arthur Cohn and shot in Louisiana, the film was his US debut, and had its premier in January 2008 at the Sundance Film Festival.
The Yellow Handkerchief was released in the United States in 2010 by Samuel Goldwyn Films.
Justin Trefgarne
Justin’s screenwriting credits include Black Rabbit Summer (Ruby Films), Cocktail Stories (Bacardi), The Property (Entertainment/Material) and Nightshift (UK Film Council). His third short film as writer/director, Unborn, premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2008 and went on to screen at festivals around the world.
He is currently developing a sci-fi thriller through the Bristol-based initiative, iFeatures, which he will also direct.
From 2002-2006 Justin was a Development Executive at Working Title Films. Productions he worked on include the Academy Award Nominated Pride and Prejudice and Hot Fuzz. Since then has acted as script consultant for Film4, Warp Films, the UK Film Council and numerous others. In addition Justin has been a visiting lecturer at Met Film School, Leeds Met University, University of Westminster and Goldsmiths University.
From 2006-2010 Justin has been a guest speaker at the annual NBC/Universal Development Incubator in Toronto. He also addressed the UK Screenwriting Festival twice and has been a screenwriting mentor in South Africa, Australia and Film London’s ‘Microschool’ three years running.
Justin was featured in Screen International's 2008 'Stars Of Tomorrow' lineup.
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