James Bogle

James Bogle was born in 1959 in Western Australia. He is a director/writer/co-producer of Australian feature films and television drama series, known for "The Circuit" 2011 (Gary Sweet, Aaron Pederson, Tammy Clarkson, Kelton Pell) which he was nominated for Best Direction of a TV Drama by Australian Directors Guild in 2011. Other notable credits include directing 14 episodes of Tim Winton's "Lockie Leonard" (Sean Keenan, Gracie Gilbert, Rhys Muldoon), Season 1 and 2, winner, Best Children's Drama Series Logie in 2008 and Best Children's Drama Series, AFI Awards in 2007. More recently James was set-up director on ABC/BBC/NBC serial drama, "The Heights" 2019 (Pheonix Raei, Marcus Graham, Roz Hammand) directing 14 of the episodes of Season 1. He has directed five theatrically released feature films: "Kadaicha" (AKA) "Stones of Death" in1988 (Zoe Carides, Tom Jennings, Deborah Kennedy), "Mad Bomber in Love" in 1993 (Marcus Graham, Craig Pearce, Craig McLachlan), "In The Winter Dark" in1998 (Brenda Blethyn, Ray Barrett, Miranda Otto, Richard Roxburgh), "Closed For Winter" in 2008 (Natalie Imbruglia, Deborah Kennedy, Tony Martin) and "Whiteley" in 2017, a featured documentary which won four AACTA Awards, including Best Director of a Feature Documentary. He also directed the drama scenes in the 4 hour ABCTV docu/drama series, "The War That Changed Us", 2014, named Factual Series of the Year by The Australian. James served as a board member at the Western Australian state funding body, ScreenWest from 2001-4, and as an Executive Committee Member for the Western Australian Branch of the Australian Directors' Guild from 2010-12. He was appointed Head of Directing at the WA Screen Academy, a temporary position, in the first half of 2020 and works as a screen industry consultant, mentor, script editor and series developer with a special interest in the development of young and indigenous filmmakers.