Carl has over three decades’ producing experience in the film and TV industries, where he developed innovative approaches across filmmaking, financing, talent development and education. His ventures with the BBC, Channel4/Film4, Medienboard Berlin, and the BFI have embraced emerging technology, explored new workflows and kick-started the international careers of the talent involved. Carl produced My Brother Tom (starring an unknown Ben Whishaw), developed the third series ‘mother of all boxed sets’ Heimat with German auteur Edgar Reitz, and set up the Raindance production arm, Raindance Rawtalent. He co-produced Simon Rumley’s international breakout feature The Living and the Dead, and is now developing feature films with him. Drawing on his film industry experience, he has been invited to speak at festivals, and film schools across Europe, Asia and the Caribbean. He is a BAFTA voting member and consultant producer at Swiss film production intelligence start-up Largo.ai. Carl runs training for the British Film Institute, Screen Ireland, Goethe Institute, mentors at the Islands of Fiction Mallorca writing retreat and teaches at the University of Oxford. Student credits include Homeland, Blade Runner 2049 and The Mandalorian, work has screened on the BBC, Netflix, theatrical release in the UK, US and Germany as well as in many international film festivals including Cannes and Berlin.
