Carl has over three decades’ producing experience in the Film & 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 evaluated scripts and business plans/slate applications initially for the European Script Fund, as well as later for Creative Europe. He produced My Brother Tom (starring an unknown Ben Whishaw), developed the third series ‘mother of all boxed sets’ Heimat with German auteur Edgar Reitz, a slate of feature films for Tall Stories, 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. He consulted on the postproduction and distribution of Uganda set thriller Imperial Blue, released last year.
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. Engaging with machine learning tools to enhance creative business practice and building communities around innovation as Consultant for Creative Collaborations at the University of Oxford/Berlin University of the Arts, the IEEE Standards Association invited Carl to join their Ethically Aligned Design in Autonomous and Intelligent Systems: Arts committee. Carl founded ScreenTalk Oxford and teaches Screenwriting for the British Film Institute and 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.