Farren Blackburn

Farren Blackburn (born 10 December 1968) is a British film and television director and screenwriter. His work includes Netflix's young adult love story, The Innocents, the French English-language psychological thriller Shut In starring Naomi Watts, Netflix and Marvel's Daredevil, Iron Fist and The Defenders. Early life He attended Caythorpe primary school, then the Sir William Robertson School in Welbourn. In Caythorpe, he lived on South Parade. Aged 20 in 1989, went to the US, to teach soccer over the summer. From 1987 he studied sports at the West London Institute of Higher Education. As a young man he was on the books of Cambridge United Football Club and represented England at youth level. After being in London, he arranged a Career Development Loan, and completed an MA in Film and TV at Bournemouth University. He found his way onto the BBC Production Training Scheme, for which there were ten places a year, with around five hundred applicants. He had a film featured at the BBC Short Film Festival.