Company Town : Dowd Signs With Caravan

Ned Dowd has signed a new three-year agreement with Caravan Pictures and will continue to oversee all aspects of physical production for motion pictures created under the Caravan Pictures banner. He has served as head of production on all of Caravan Pictures’ feature releases.

Dowd has worked as an assistant director on 35 feature films as well as co-producing such films as “The Last of the Mohicans” and “The Three Musketeers.”

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