Adam Patterson started his creative life as a photojournalist covering social issues across the world for publications such as BBC, Vice, The Guardian, CNN etc. A chance meeting with a Panorama documentary team while working undercover in Dubai led to him being sent to Chile for two months to cover the trapped Chilean Miners in 2010. Around this time making documentaries he also met his creative partner Declan Lawn. They decided together that they wanted a new creative challenge and wanted to try their hand at drama. Thus began a period of outlandish ambition and rolling the dice. This partnership formally launched with the hit drama The Salisbury Poisonings, which became the BBC’s most watched drama of 2020. Adam and Declan then wrote and directed their first feature-length film Rogue Agent (FREEGARD), starring James Norton and Gemma Arterton, which was released on UK Netflix and in US theatres in 2022. Declan and Adam are currently working on the third and fourth series of their original scripted drama Blue Lights, about response police officers in Belfast. They have just launched a production company in Belfast backed by Sony pictures called Hot Sauce Pictures. Proudly they are currently visiting fellows at the Seamus Heaney Centre in Queens.

After a chequered career as a professional footballer, Rory chose to change career path and move into journalism. He realised his real passion was people and is now focusing on presenter-led observational films about modern day issues. He is an award winning programme-maker, reporter and experienced investigative journalist including for BBC Panorama.