Kate Ogborn is an award winning film and television producer and executive producer whose film credits include the multi award winning Under the Skin, starring Samantha Morton, This is England, The Deep Blue Sea, The Spirit of ’45 and Abandoned Goods.

Prior to running her own production company, Fly Film with Lisa Marie Russo, Kate was Head of Television at Revolution Films. She co-produced Tony Grisoni’s adaptation of David Peace’s crime novels, The Red Riding Trilogy, and produced Samantha Morton’s directorial debut, The Unloved, which won the Bafta for Best Single Drama in 2010.

At Fly Kate has produced Randall Wright’s documentary Hockney; Pia Borg and Edward Lawrenson’s Abandoned Goods, with Lisa Marie Russo, which won the Golden Leopard for Best International Short at Locarno; Ken Loach’s documentary The Spirit of ’45 with Lisa Marie Russo and Rebecca O’Brien of Sixteen Films; and Terence Davies’ adaptation of The Deep Blue Sea, by Terence Rattigan, with Sean O’Connor of Camberwell Films. The film stars Rachel Weisz, Simon Russell Beale and Tom Hiddleston. Kate was also an executive producer on Self Made and Swandown.

In 2017 Kate moved into producing long form drama. She produced The End of the F***ing World for Clerkenwell Films, Channel 4 and Netflix which won the 2018 RTS Award for Best Drama Series and was nominated for a Bafta for Best Drama Series.

Most recently Kate produced The North Water for See Saw for BBC2, BBC Studios and CBC, adapted from the novel by Ian McGuire and directed by Andrew Haigh and starring Jack O’Connell, Colin Farrell and Stephen Graham. Kate is currently producing Life After Life for House Productions for BBC1 and BBC Studios, adapted from Kate Atkinson’s novel by Bash Doran and directed by John Crowley.

Lisa Marie produced Pia Borg and Edward Lawrenson’s Abandoned Goods with Kate Ogborn, which won the Golden Leopard for Best International Short at Locarno. Previously Lisa Marie produced Ken Loach’s documentary The Spirit of ’45 with Kate Ogborn and Rebecca O’Brien of Sixteen Films; and Swandown, a feature documentary by artist Andrew Kotting and writer Iain Sinclair. She also produced Turner Prize winner Gillian Wearing’s feature debut, Self Made and was an executive producer on The Deep Blue Sea and Hockney.

Prior to creating Fly Film, she executive produced Terence Davies’ documentary Of Time and the City as well as the films Salvage and Kicks as part of Digital Departures, a scheme to celebrate the Capital of Culture in Liverpool ‘08. Of Time and the City was critically acclaimed at the Cannes Film Festival in 2008, and was nominated for a Bafta, Bifa and Grierson Award. The film was on Time Magazine’s list of Top Ten Movies for 2009, and was the winner of the New York Film Critics’ Circle for Best Documentary, 2009. Lisa Marie produced the BBC2 film Shiny Shiny Bright New Hole in My Heart, directed by Marc Munden and starring Sally Hawkins. She co-produced the feature film Brothers of the Head, starring Luke and Harry Treadaway and winner of the Michael Powell Award for Best British Film at the Edinburgh Film Festival. Prior to moving to the UK, she directed documentaries for PBS in Philadelphia, and won an Emmy for a team project called Peace, about the Gulf War.

From 2018 – 2021, Lisa Marie was the BFI Doc Society Film Fund Executive, leading the national documentary fund and support programme. Her executive producer credits include the shorts The Nightcrawlers (Emmy) and Country Girl (Grierson Award), and the features Locked In (Bafta and three regional RTS Awards), Poly Styrene: I am a Cliche (Grierson nominated 2021), and Nascondino (London Film Festival 2021). Lisa Marie currently works for the Fund as a freelance consultant and executive producer.