Jamie Dornan and Conor MacNeill, launch the feature and television production entity Blackthorn Films. The new venture will be based in the northern region of the country, where Dornan and MacNeill were born and raised. At launch, the pair hired producer Shauna Shivers-McAtamney to oversee Blackthorn's film and TV slate. The company is a recent recipient of the BBC's TV Small Indie Fund, which supports the growth of grassroots production shops across the U.K. "Blackthorn films was born out of a shared desire to create indigenous stories from the island of Ireland that have a true global reach. The company's aim is to produce work that flips the lens and presents fresh narratives, particularly from the North of the country," Dornan and MacNeill said. "We are both most creatively content when working at home and we are excited to collaborate with the wealth of skilled and talented filmmakers there, many of whom we have worked with before. The professionalism, ...
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