Bennett McGhee

BAFTA-nominated producer Bennett McGhee is Co-CEO and Co-founder of film and TV production company HOME TEAM, which launched in September 2020. Bennett’s most recent production is MOGUL MOWGLI, co-written and directed by Bassam Tariq and starring EMMY award-winning actor Riz Ahmed, with whom Tariq co-wrote the script. Bennett produced alongside Thomas Benski (Pulse Films), Riz Ahmed (Left Hand Films) and Michael Peay (Reframe). MOGUL launched internationally at the Berlin Film Festival 2020 winning the international Critics Award (FIPRESCI). The film was released in the UK by BFI Distribution in October 2020 and in the US by Strand Releasing, 2021. MOGUL picked up 7 BIFA nominations, winning Best Debut Screenplay and Best Music and was BAFTA-nominated for Outstanding British Film.

Other credits include director Ed Lilly’s debut film, rap-battle drama VS., which launched at LLF 2018 and Altitude released theatrically in the UK. Netflix subsequently picked up all English-speaking rights; Ron Scalpello’s feature documentary BOBBY, about the sporting and cultural icon, Bobby Moore. Entertainment One released the film theatrically in the UK.

Prior to Home Team, Bennett set-up Silvertown Films in 2015, and was a British Film Institute 2016 Vision Award awardee. Prior to Silvertown, Bennett was an executive at Wildgaze Films where he worked on a number of film and TV projects including the multi Oscar- (including Best Picture) and BAFTA-nominated, AN EDUCATION; A LONG WAY DOWN; Dustin Hoffman’s directorial debut QUARTET, from a script by Oscar-winner Ronald Harwood; and as Associate Producer, on multi-Oscar nominated and BAFTA-winning BROOKLYN.