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1 2 P E R S P E C T I V E | N O V E M B E R / D E C E M B E R 2 0 1 9 C O N T R I B U T O R S F R A N C O G . C A R B O N E lives and works out of Silverlake, California. He is a short drive away from his alma mater, the American Film Institute in Los Feliz, where he received his MFA in Production Design in 1998. He is now an adjunct professor at the AFI. His collaboration on films with Academy Award winner Sylvester Stallone (Rocky Balboa, Rambo, The Expendables, Creed II and Rambo: Last Blood), have linked him inextricably with the star who also shares an Italian heritage and love for hyperbole. Other notable collaborations are with director Eli Roth (Hostel, Cabin Fever and AMC's History of Horror) and with legendary film director and Academy Award winner William Friedkin for whom he designed two intense psychodramas, Bug and Killer Joe. When not in production, Franco also works with his partner and husband on architecture and interior design projects for a list of distinguished clients. L I S A C L A R K began her career in theater designing sets in San Francisco for over 25 productions, including several West Coast premieres. For the past 15 years, Lisa has worked in feature film, TV, documentary film and museum exhibition projects. Her projects have ranged from independent to large-scale productions where she regularly serves in the role of set decorator, though she is a dual card holder and has worked as an Art Director as well. Some of her recent credits include set decorator for Production Designer Jessica Kender on the ADG-nominated TV show Future Man on Hulu, set decorator for Production Designer Jeannine Oppewall on the feature The Last Days in the Desert, starring Ewan McGregor, and set decorator for Production Designer Kitty Doris-Bates on the HBO series The Comeback. J E S S I C A K E N D E R began her career as a Scenic Artist. After graduating from Carnegie Mellon University, Kender painted for shows on and off Broadway. Raised in New Jersey, where only the strong survive, she moved cross-country to Los Angeles, where she began her motion picture work as a Set Designer and Art Director. For the past 15 years, Jessica has been the Production Designer on a variety of looks for The Brink, Dexter, Goliath, The Catch and Station 19, Rizzoli & Isles, Medium and Life in Pieces, along with the feature film Soaked in Bleach. These shows have taken her around the world, from Pakistan to Switzerland, and around the country from New England to Seattle—all from inside the zone. Last year, Jessica received an Art Directors Guild nomination for her work on Hulu's Future Man season one, where she returned for season two to create new worlds—this time, 150 years in the future. Currently, she resides in beautiful downtown Burbank with her husband, Set Designer Sam Page, their daughter Madeline and son Maxwell, her best designs to date. B A R B A R A L I N G started her career in the theater, and she designed the sets and lighting for over 200 theater, opera, and musical productions in Los Angeles and New York. Barbara has built a diverse and exceptional body of work, and she has collaborated with some of the industry's most highly respected directors, including Diane Keaton, Heaven, Paul Brickman, Men Don't Leave, Oliver Stone, The Doors, John Avnet, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, Joel Schumacher, Falling Down, Batman Forever, Batman & Robin, Sidney Pollock, Random Hearts, and Scott Hicks, Hearts in Atlantis, No Reservations, The Lucky One and Fallen. Most recently, Barbara was the Production Designer on Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood, directed by Quentin Tarantino.