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I met Jean-Marc Vallee, the director of Sharp Objects, in 2012, when he was looking for a designer for the film Dallas Buyers Club. I jumped on the chance to work on a film, any film, about the AIDS crisis, even if it was set in Texas far away from New York City and the East Village haunts where I experienced the effects of the disease firsthand, and where so many dear friends passed away because of it. Jean-Marc recognized my passion for telling a story about people struggling with this disease in the 1980s, and so we started working together. I've been fortunate enough to continue this collaboration on all his projects up to this one, a dark, Southern Gothic thriller seen through Jean-Marc's character-driven, voyeuristic intensity. The Town of Wind Gap - Past and Present Existing Side by Side Sharp Objects is the story of Camille Preaker, a reporter from St. Louis tasked by her boss to go back to her hometown of Wind Gap, located in the boot-heel (as it is referred to) of Missouri to cover a series of murders of young girls. She didn't leave so much as escape from Wind Gap. She was fleeing a town full of secrets and hidden monsters, but also a place of lush, hauntingly beautiful landscapes. Knowing that Jean-Marc always prefers to shoot on location, I knew that to create A. WIND GAP TOWN SQUARE, PHOTOSHOP ILLUSTRATION BASED ON THE BARNSVILLE RAILROAD DEPOT, BY JOANNA BUSH. B. SMALL TOWN RESEARCH BOARD. B