McQuillan joins Humble Bee Films from Icon Films, where he served as creative director.

At Icon Films, he helped oversee the expansion of Icon's business with wide-ranging projects including:
  • Unknown Amazon With Pedro Andrade for Vice Media Group
  • Malawi Wildlife Rescue for Blue Ant Media
  • Mysteries of the Deep for Science Channel, and
  • Secrets of the Mega… strand for Channel 5.
Prior to Icon Films, he worked in a number of senior producer roles including at Twofour Group and the BBC. Based in Bristol, McQuillan reports to Humble Bee Films founder and MD Stephen Dunleavy and begins his new role with immediate effect.

"Humble Bee Films has an incredible reputation for producing brilliant high-end factual programmes and its fantastic company ethos is renowned across the United Kingdom television community," says McQuillan. "I'm really excited to join this ambitious and talented team and help broaden and grow their already stunning line-up of factual content.

"We are delighted that McQuillan has joined the Humble Bee team as our creative director. I've long admired his excellent work. His exceptional knowledge of the international factual space will help us to grow our boundary-pushing slate of programming to new levels," concludes Stephen Dunleavy, MD of Humble Bee Films.

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