Producers Reece Cargan (Bombito) and James Heath (MTP) Join Forces to Create Randan
Thanks to the BFI Global Screen Fund
The BFI announced in January that MTP and Bombito were two of a select few production companies to receive funding from their highly competitive Global Screen Fund. With this funding, they are creating a new production company - RANDAN.
Producers Reece Cargan and James Heath will now run projects through Randan as a shared vehicle to develop, produce and distribute content with a global reach. The new label was created with a shared vision to champion new storytelling and a desire to tap into the well of talented writers/directors throughout Scotland and beyond.
Randan will work across live-action features, documentaries and TV and will focus on telling intersectional stories through a contemporary lens, showcasing the best of what UK voices have to offer regionally and globally.
In years 1-2, they intend to focus on first and second features from emerging writers and directors. Randan’s slate selection is as follows:
Boifriend - by Jack Goessens
Your Honour - by Bircan Birol
Ride - by Dean Loxton
A Good Spell - by Michael Lee Richardson
Love Letters - by Danny Cook
Ting - by Maximilien Dejoie and Virginija Vareikyte
Head Rush - by Philip Wright
Desperate Wretched People - by Jamie Maule-ffinch
These projects will be buoyed by a catalogue of European Co-Productions - with four co-production projects already scheduled for release in 2024, 2025 under the new banner.
Where Dragons Live - World Premiere - Sheffield Doc Fest June 2024 - Docmakers, Netherlands
Leonora in the Morning Light - in post-production - Skye Films Dragonfly films, Meli Melo Cultura and Digital Cube
Spilt Milk- in post-production - co-produced with 925 Productions
Midwinter Break - in post-production Shoebox Films, Family Affair, Film 4, with Protagonist handling worldwide sales
Founded in 2017, RTS award-winning and BAFTA-nominated production company Bombito Productions is on a mission to tell LGBTQIA+ stories written, or directed, by people from the queer community. Founder Reece Cargan was selected by Screen International as a ‘Rising Star Scotland’ in 2022.
Over thirty years ago, BAFTA-winning production company MTP was founded by Simon Mallinson. In 2018, James joined as an Executive Producer, hoping to expand MTP’s drama slate. MTP has screened films at Berlinale, Sundance, SXSW, and Venice.
At Randan, Reece Cargan will act as both Producer and Managing Director, James Heath will also produce and stay on as executive producer at MTP. Simon Mallinson takes on the chairman role, and Vaishnavi Ramu and Lauren Piskothy will be joining as Development Assistants from Bombito and MTP respectively.
REECE CARGAN:
“As a producer who has worked solo for (too) many years building Bombito up - I’m really happy to now be able to share the future successes, joy, pain and workload! with James and all the team at Randan.
I’m really excited for this new chapter and looking forward to continuing to co-produce with Europe and push forward Bombito-originated projects -with both Boifriend and Your Honour scheduled for production in 2024 and 2025. I’m equally delighted to start working across all the projects that James has originated and start to develop our totally new Randan slate together”.
JAMES HEATH:
“It feels like years of planning have come together to make this a reality. I’m thrilled that the BFI UK Global Screen Fund could see our bold vision of MTP partnering with Bombito together to make something greater than the sum of our parts with Randan.
Reece is developing a remarkable and exciting variety of projects on the slate and brings skills in abundance. As well as bringing on the brilliant Lauren and Vaishnavi to the team in development, allows for an exciting future ahead for our ambitious production company.
The company will make its debut at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival with both James and Reece on the ground in Cannes.
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RANDAN - meaning: In Scots Randan is either - a noisy party/ rowdy celebration “they were ‘on the randan’ last night” OR a boat propelled by 3 rowers.
