about

The company was born through the collaboration of Mark Lacey and Sinead Kirwan with Owen Gower on the award-winning film STILL THE ENEMY WITHIN. Since then they have been joined by award-winning director Chloë Fairweather. Its most recent production is HONG KONG:CITY ON FIRE, which was released nationwide in 2023 through Odeon Cinemas. The team also recently completed BURN ON ARRIVAL, a dark short thriller set in the Scottish Highlands starring Kate Dickie and James Harkness, that premiered at the Glasgow International Short Film Festival and has since been screened around the world, winning numerous awards.
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In 2021 Sinéad Kirwan and Chloe Fairweather completed Dying to Divorce which after premiering at Hot Docs won a slew of awards including Best Feature at the Scottish Baftas and Best Breakthrough Film at the Welsh Baftas. In 2021 the film was selected as the UK Entry for Best International Feature to the Oscars.

The team love collaborating with directors and producers across the globe and understand the risks that some filmmakers must go through to get their stories out there, so if you have a politically sensitive story and you are looking for a Scottish Coproducer or Scottish support get in touch. If your story is politically sensitive, we recommend using ProtonMail and emailing enemyfilms @protonmail.com

Sinead Kirwan

Sinead Kirwan

Sinead Kirwan is an award-winning multi-disciplinary producer, working across film, TV, interactives, and installations. Her films include STILL THE ENEMY WITHIN (Sheffield Doc Fest Audience Award Winner), DYING TO DIVORCE (Prix Europa Nominee, Rose’dorNominee, Winner Golden Nymph, UK Entry Best International Feature Oscars) and PLAYING THE GAME: GARRY O'CONNOR, a film about mental health for BBC Scotland as well as the short drama BURN ON ARRIVAL starring Kate Dickie. Her first animation I DON’T WANT TO CALL IT HOME screened at Edinburgh International Film Festival, Dinard Film Festival and Calcareous Film Festival. She is currently developing an animated feature documentary with director Chloe Fairweather and a new doc with award-winning director Paul Sng and LS Films. In 2023 Sinead was lucky enough to win a Best Feature Award for DYING TO DIVORCE at the Scottish Bafta’s and be selected for the prestigious EAVE producer development program.
Mark Lacey

Mark lacey

Mark has a wealth of experience in multiple production roles specialising in animation and documentary as well as drama.  He has worked on numerous award-winning commercials, independent features and large-scale productions.  These include Wes Anderson’s ISLE OF DOGS and Tim Burton’s FRANKENWEENIE both of which have been nominated at the Oscars and Golden Globes. His first drama feature as a producer, SILENT NIGHT was released in 2020, garnering four stars in Total Film. He has also produced award winning shorts BURN ON ARRIVAL and Screen Scotland supported THE AIR WE BREATHE. Documentary credits include producer on STILL THE ENEMY WITHIN, post-production producer on DESTINATION UNKNOWN (a documentary about holocaust survivors) (Selected for Sheffield Doc/Fest 2016), line producer ONE MAN ON HIS SHOES (selected for SXSW, brought by BBC Three/ Vice) and edit producer on hit BBC Scotland show A VIEW FROM THE TERRACE. He is an Edinburgh Talent Lab and BIFA Springboard alumni.
Owen Gower

Owen Gower

Owen made his directing debut in 2014 with the feature documentary ‘Still the Enemy Within’ about the 1984/85 Miners Strike.   Critically acclaimed, with the Guardian calling it ‘as gripping as a thriller’ – the film went on to win a prestigious Sheffield International Documentary Award and Focal Award, be Grierson nominated, screened at BAFTA, and inducted by the BFI as a film of historic importance. Since then, Owen has directed a number of prime-time television series for BBC ONE, CHANNEL 4 and NETFLIX.
Chloe Fairweather

Chloe fairweather

The Welsh born filmmaker started out in TV production over 10 years ago when she was selected for the BBC’s Production Training Scheme. From here she learned her craft assisting documentary directors such as award-winning filmmaker Olly Lambert. Her first film was shortlisted for The Grierson Best Newcomer Award in 2015 and was nominated for a BAFTA. Since then, she has made films for all the major British broadcasters. Her first feature film DYING TO DIVORCE premiered at Hot Docs festival and has won a Golden Nymph Award, a Journalistinnenbund Award, was nominated for Prix Europa, Rosedor, BIFA and longlisted for a BAFTA Best Debut Feature. It also received a special mention at the Movies That Matters Grand Jury Prize where it was described as “expertly presenting the political and cultural forces that perpetuate a culture of violence against women’, and most recently won Best Feature award at the Scottish Bafta and Best Breakthrough film at the Welsh Baftas. Last year Chloe made the landmark series for Sky Documentaries SCOUTING FOR GIRLS which explores abuse in the model industry. 
Sinead Kirwan

Sinead Kirwan

Sinead Kirwan is an award-winning multi-disciplinary producer, working across film, TV, interactives, and installations. Her films include STILL THE ENEMY WITHIN (Sheffield Doc Fest Audience Award Winner), DYING TO DIVORCE (Prix Europa Nominee, Rose’dorNominee, Winner Golden Nymph, UK Entry Best International Feature Oscars), WHEN A CITY RISES (CPH:DOX F:ACT winner) for Arte and PLAYING THE GAME: GARRY O'CONNOR, a film about mental health for BBC Scotland as well as the short drama BURN ON ARRIVAL starring Kate Dickie. Her first animation I DON’T WANT TO CALL IT HOME screened at Edinburgh International Film Festival, Dinard Film Festival and Calcareous Film Festival.
Mark Lacey

mark lacey

Mark has a wealth of experience in multiple production roles specialising in animation and documentary as well as drama.  He has worked on numerous award-winning commercials, independent features and large-scale productions.  These include Wes Anderson’s ISLE OF DOGS and Tim Burton’s FRANKENWEENIE both of which have been nominated at the Oscars and Golden Globes. His first drama feature as a producer, SILENT NIGHT was just released, garnering four stars in Total Film.  Documentary credits include producer on STILL THE ENEMY WITHIN, post-production producer on DESTINATION UNKNOWN (a documentary about holocaust survivors) (Selected for Sheffield Doc/Fest 2016), line producer ONE MAN ON HIS SHOES (selected for SXSW, brought by BBC Three/ Vice) and edit producer on hit BBC Scotland show A VIEW FROM THE TERRACE. 
Owen Gower

owen gower

Owen made his directing debut in 2014 with the feature documentary ‘Still the Enemy Within’ about the 1984/85 Miners Strike.   Critically acclaimed, with the Guardian calling it ‘as gripping as a thriller’ – the film went on to win a prestigious Sheffield International Documentary Award and Focal Award, be Grierson nominated, screened at BAFTA, and inducted by the BFI as a film of historic importance. Since then, Owen has directed a number of prime-time television series for BBC ONE, CHANNEL 4 and NETFLIX.

Collaborators

As well as the core team- we work with some of the most talented directors in the UK. We believe in cultivating long term creative relationships.
George Louis Bartlett is a writer and filmmaker from south Birmingham, England. His no-budget feature film, Demon, premiered at Cinequest Film Festival in 2021 and will be released on TromaNOW, the VOD platform of Lloyd Kaufman's legendary Troma Entertainment. His short documentary, Dreamland, premiered at Open City Documentary Festival in 2014. 
Owen@enemyfilms.co.uk
Mark@enemyfilms.co.uk
Sinead@enemyfilms.co.uk