James Burstall

James Burstall
Born James Christopher St Etienne Burstall
(1965-05-20) 20 May 1965
Residence Islington, London, England
Occupation Founder of Argonon
Years active 2001-present
Parent(s) Christopher Burstall
Website argonon.com

James Burstall is a film and television producer[1][2] and Chief Executive Officer of international group Argonon which he founded in 2011. Argonon has twelve companies within the group in London, New York, Vancouver and Glasgow.

Burstall’s broadcast career credits span a number of genres and international territories, and range from TV shows Cash in the Attic and House Hunters International to feature length drama An Englishman In New York.

Education

Burstall studied modern languages at the University of Bristol[3]), studied leadership at the Said Business School, University of Oxford (2011) and Leading Changing at the Graduate School of Business, University of Stanford, California (2013).

Career

Burstall was CEO at Leopard Films which he founded in 2002. He then created Leopard USA, a New-York based production company in 2003,[4] then Leopard Drama and Leopard International, a distribution and rights business, in 2004.[5]

Burstall was a finalist in the 2009 IoD London and the South East Director of the Year Awards for 'Institute of Directors of the Year over 5m.[6]

Burstall created Argonon in 2011, bringing together Leopard Films, Leopard Drama and Leopard USA; re-branding Leopard International as Argonon International and acquiring Remedy Productions, specialists in entertainment, music and live events.[7]

In 2012, Burstall confirmed the launch of Remedy Canada, with significant investment from Argonon, followed by the acquisition of Transparent TV,[8] producers of lifestyle and documentary programming in the UK, in 2013. He next launched Argonon’s first joint venture BriteSpark Films in 2013 bringing documentarian Nick Godwin into the group and he made further acquisitions including the multi-award winning Windfall Films.[9] He took his original production Cash in the Attic into the digital world in 2013 with the launch of CashInTheAttic.com, a joint venture providing an online portal for fans of antiques, collectibles and vintage.[10][11]

In 2014, Burstall launched further joint ventures, Blacklisted Films, a new drama startup and The Bridge, a conduit bridging English speaking TV producers with their counterparts in Asia. The Bridge is co-producing projects in Korea.[12]

Productions

Executive Producer[13] - Leopard Films

Executive Producer[13] - Leopard USA

Executive Producer[13] - Leopard Drama

References

  1. ↑ "James Burstall". BFI. Retrieved 2015-10-28.
  2. ↑ "James Burstall @ARTISTdirect". ARTISTdirect. Retrieved 2015-10-29.
  3. ↑ Bristol, University of. "Bristol University | Alumni and friends | 2011: James Burstall (BA 1987) launches new creative powerhouse". Bristol University. Retrieved 2015-10-12.
  4. ↑ "Leopard Films USA hires Richard Cook". ATVtoday.co.uk.
  5. ↑ "Danny La Rue Tales Being Groomed for Big Screen". The Hollywood Reporter.
  6. ↑ "Finalists announced for the 2009 IoD London and the South East Director of the Year Awards" (PDF). Iod.com.
  7. ↑ "The new super groups: Argonon". Tbivision.com.
  8. ↑ "Argonon acquires Transparent Television". Realscreen.com.
  9. ↑ "Argonon acquires Windfall Films". Televisual.com.
  10. ↑ "Global television show becomes interactive as Argonon launches CashInTheAttic.com". The Drum.
  11. ↑ "Lowde moves into Argonon's Attic". C21Media.
  12. ↑ "Homegrown drama Eve gets CBBC second season commission". Kidscreen.com.
  13. 1 2 3 "Production Beast".

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