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LMGI COMPASS
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Summer 2022
Standing on a windy outcropping on Torr Head in Northern Ireland, supervising location manager
Naomi Liston/LMGI can look out over the Sea of Moyle with its pods of dolphins to the shores
of her home country, Scotland. "You look into the Mull of Kintyre and Campbeltown, that's the
peninsula, and you've got the Isle of Jura going beyond that. I know every bit in Northern Ireland
where I can see back home."
In the ctional world of The Northman, the smash Viking saga directed by Robert Eggers, Torr
Head is home. The rst scene opens on the lm's young protagonist Prince Amleth in his father's
kingdom of Hrafsney—an easily defensible enclave on a steep hill overlooking grass-combed
cliffs that plod palely into the ocean like waders' calves. Liston chose the remote Torr headlands
on the Antrim Coast for their severe pastoral beauty and pristine panoramic views.
