Denman Rooke is stepping down as executive chairman of October Films, the UK and U.S. production company known for making History’s Barbarians Rising.
Rooke has worked at the production outfit for 24 years, first joining as a director in 1995, and rising to executive chairman in 2014.
Rooke’s responsibilities will be taken on by October’s managing director Adam Bullmore, director of production and operations Jane Manning and Matt Robins, the company’s creative director.
Rooke said: “For the past quarter-century October Films has been at the center of my professional life. The company has given me the opportunity to fulfill many of my greatest creative ambitions and I’ve been lucky enough to have worked with some of the most talented people in the television industry.”
As well as Barbarians Rising, October’s recent productions include This Is Football, the Amazon series made in association with Starbucks exploring soccer’s impact on global culture.
Rooke has worked at the production outfit for 24 years, first joining as a director in 1995, and rising to executive chairman in 2014.
Rooke’s responsibilities will be taken on by October’s managing director Adam Bullmore, director of production and operations Jane Manning and Matt Robins, the company’s creative director.
Rooke said: “For the past quarter-century October Films has been at the center of my professional life. The company has given me the opportunity to fulfill many of my greatest creative ambitions and I’ve been lucky enough to have worked with some of the most talented people in the television industry.”
As well as Barbarians Rising, October’s recent productions include This Is Football, the Amazon series made in association with Starbucks exploring soccer’s impact on global culture.
- 10/8/2019
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: October Films, the UK and U.S. production company best known for producing History’s Barbarians Rising, is taking advantage of football fever with a new six-part documentary series exploring the sport.
The company has partnered with Spanish production company Brutal Media to develop This Is Football (w/t).
The series will explore football’s impact on global culture and will try and understand how football has become the world’s biggest, and most unifying conversation. It will look at universal themes of the human experience from redemption, hope, love, fate, wonder, faith, through incredible stories turned up from every continent.
This Is Football is being filmed across the UK, Russia, which is hosting the 2018 World Cup, Argentina, Brazil, Israel, USA and China.
October Films, which is run by Executive Chairman Denman Rooke and MD Adam Bullmore, is not known for its sports programming but has produced a number...
The company has partnered with Spanish production company Brutal Media to develop This Is Football (w/t).
The series will explore football’s impact on global culture and will try and understand how football has become the world’s biggest, and most unifying conversation. It will look at universal themes of the human experience from redemption, hope, love, fate, wonder, faith, through incredible stories turned up from every continent.
This Is Football is being filmed across the UK, Russia, which is hosting the 2018 World Cup, Argentina, Brazil, Israel, USA and China.
October Films, which is run by Executive Chairman Denman Rooke and MD Adam Bullmore, is not known for its sports programming but has produced a number...
- 7/10/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Former British soldier Adnan Sarwar is heading back to Iraq fifteen years after the start of the Iraq war for a two-hour documentary for BBC Two. The broadcaster has commissioned UK and U.S. producer October Films to make Return To Iraq (w/t).
Sarwar will explore how the country has changed since he served in the army as a 24-year old. He will discuss how his life changed following an ambush after seeing how driving Saddam Hussein from power led to more violence in the country and the creation of Isis. He travels across the snowy peaks and arid deserts, venturing through hilltop villages, Isis tunnels and magnificent gorges, walks with mine clearing teams in Mosul and joins wildlife conservationists releasing bears near one of Saddam Hussein’s old palaces. He will also meet pop stars all-female fighting units, archaeologists, oil-workers, Lgbt activists and ordinary Iraqis from all walks of life.
Sarwar will explore how the country has changed since he served in the army as a 24-year old. He will discuss how his life changed following an ambush after seeing how driving Saddam Hussein from power led to more violence in the country and the creation of Isis. He travels across the snowy peaks and arid deserts, venturing through hilltop villages, Isis tunnels and magnificent gorges, walks with mine clearing teams in Mosul and joins wildlife conservationists releasing bears near one of Saddam Hussein’s old palaces. He will also meet pop stars all-female fighting units, archaeologists, oil-workers, Lgbt activists and ordinary Iraqis from all walks of life.
- 3/29/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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