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1 0 P E R S P E C T I V E | J A N U A R Y / F E B R U A R Y 2 0 2 1 C O N T R I B U T O R S T O D D F J E L S T E D ' S career began in the 1990s with critically lauded gallery works exhibited across the Southeast, including paintings, sculpture and installations. After segueing into theater sets, commercial photography and multiple disciplines for an FX company, in 2002 he directed the animated short The Firefl y Man, which premiered at Telluride and sold to The Sundance Channel. Fjelsted moved to Los Angeles in 2003, and has since worked as a Production Designer for seventeen years. He has built character worlds for Netfl ix, HBO, Amazon and Hulu, as well as for independent fi lms premiering at Cannes, Sundance, Tribeca and Berlin, and has collaborated with directors Gregg Araki, Patty Jenkins, Lynn Shelton and Andrew Haigh. In 2018, he won a Primetime Emmy and an Art Directors Guild Award for the Production Design of the period comedy GLOW, and a second ADG Award in 2019. He was nominated for both awards again in 2020. Fjelsted is currently designing a new drama series for Showtime, First Ladies, which depicts eleven decades of American history and stars Viola Davis as Michelle Obama. F R A N K F O R T E is an accomplished designer, storyboard artist and comic book artist. Frank's fi lm and TV credits include Lovecraft Country, Fantasy Island, Solar Opposites, DreamWork's 3Below, Bob's Burgers, Insidious 4, Lego: Guardians of the Galaxy, Despicable Me 2, Lego Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out, The Super Hero Squad Show, Marvel Heroes 4D and Lego Hero Factory. Frank's comic book credits include Heavy Metal magazine, Bob's Burgers, Warlash, DTOX, Zombie Terrors and Chicken Soup for Satan, among others. K A L I N A I V A N O V most recently collaborated on the HBO series Lovecraft Country. In the last four years, she designed the fi lms Wonder and Long Shot, as well as the Emmy- winning Netfl ix series, Seven Seconds. Prior to that, she earned an Emmy and an Art Directors Guild Award for her designs on Grey Gardens. She also designed The Vow and designed the Golden Globe-nominated television show Smash (season two). She has had a long collaboration with director Robert Redford, culminating in his epic historical drama The Conspirator where her designs were featured in PERSPECTIVE magazine. Other notable fi lm designs include the Oscar- nominated Little Miss Sunshine, as well as Max, Poltergeist, Rabbit Hole, The Book of Henry, Made of Honor, Brown Sugar, Smoke and many others. For television, she designed the series Raising Dion, Kings and the pilot for Person of Interest, among many others. Kalina Ivanov owes much gratitude to her early mentors, Néstor Almendros and Jonathan Demme, who gave her the opportunity to storyboard such fi lms as Billy Bathgate, The Manchurian Candidate and The Silence of the Lambs. She is a co-founder of The Production Designers Collective and on the Board of the Sofi a Independent Film Festival. Kalina Ivanov is a proud member of AMPAS.