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18 P E R S P E C T I V E | N OV E M B E R / D E C E M B E R 2 0 1 7 contributors DENNIS GASSNER is a distinguished American Production Designer. He is notable for his work in Bugsy, Road to Perdition and Big Fish. He was the Production Designer for the 22nd, 23rd and 24th James Bond films: Quantum of Solace, Skyfall and Spectre. Moreover, he recently designed the long-awaited Blade Runner 2049 which will be released in October 2017. Today, Gassner's creative abilities are consistently applauded by both the American Academy and the British Association of Film and Television Arts. He has been nominated five times for the Academy Award for Best Production Design and has won once for Bugsy. ERNIE MARJORAM holds a BS from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He has been a registered professional architect for more than fifteen years and has been working as a freelance designer/illustrator in advertising and entertainment since 1995. He has developed concepts for Walt Disney Imagineering, created sketches for Steven Spielberg's Movie Magic, executed concept designs of the Lost World of Jules Verne theme park and handled visual development for Spagna 2000. Ernie also teaches design and perspective sketching to the Production Designers at the American Film Institute, as well as drawing and storyboarding at Dodge Film School, Chapman University, Orange, CA. CLAUDE PARÉ was born in Montreal, Quebec, where he studied in some of their best schools until he was 17. The youngest of a family of four children, he then decided to travel to Europe. He later applied to a training program advertisement, posted by the National Film Board of Canada in the newspaper, and was selected out of five hundred applicants to be one of twelve lucky candidates. "My education was seeing the world before globalization! My curiosity is what started me on this whole journey." A world of creativity and technology became his passion. With no real résumé, a roll of charcoal drawings, a VHS demo reel and a desire to make big films, he visited Hollywood. Paré discusses his most recent film, IT, in this issue. He continues to live in Montreal and is a happily married father of twin daughters. KAREN TEN EYCK is originally from the East Coast, where she received a bachelor's degree in communication design. After graduation, she worked as a graphic designer and Art Director at several Philadelphia firms before going to study theatrical production design at the Yale School of Drama. After moving to New York in 1992, she designed over sixty-five sets for many of the nation's top regional theaters and opera companies, including Manhattan Theatre Club, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Denver Center Theatre, Austin Lyric Opera, Alabama Shakespeare Festival and South Coast Rep. However, it was her work with Los Angeles Opera that convinced her to move to LA in 2000. Since then, she has designed graphics for over forty movies, including Water for Elephants, The Aviator, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master, Trumbo, Steven Spielberg's Lincoln and the upcoming Ad Astra, directed by James Gray.