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10 P E R S P E C T I V E | M A R C H / A P R I L 2 0 1 8 contributors DEBORAH L. JENSEN is an Art Director and designer. She just completed work as Supervising Art Director on The Post with designer Rick Carter, and is currently Supervising Art Director on The Goldfinch with designer KK Barrett. Prior to this, she was Art Director for the acclaimed Coen Brothers' film Inside Llewyn Davis, with designer Jess Gonchor, which won the Grand Prix at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. Jensen received Art Directors Guild nominations for the Coen features Inside Llewyn Davis, Serious Man and Burn After Reading. She won the Art Directors Guild Award for Excellence in Production Design with Jess Gonchor on No Country for Old Men. Jensen worked as Set Designer on The Bourne Legacy, Julie Taymor's Across the Universe and was a key Set Designer on Todd Hayne's Mildred Pierce for HBO, receiving an ADG Award for Excellence in Production Design. She studied cultural anthropology, theater and art history at Emory University in its Scholars Program. She moved to New York to study Set Design, beginning in downtown and regional theater with designer Douglas Stein and later transitioning to film. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband Steve Duke and the amazing Jense Marin Duke. MELANIE PAIZIS JONES began doing theater at age 11. In high school, she joined a theater company and began to play with prop and Set Design. Her college experience was dedicated to dance, theater and music.With an AA degree, Jones transferred to Long Beach State University to get a BA in theater arts. She moved to LA and through a friend, received "real training on a real movie and was getting paid… I still have not gone back to get my BA degree." She went from painter, to set dresser, to swing gang, on-set dresser, to shopper on films, commercials, and print. She was the set decorator on Two Guys Talking About Girls, where she met Production Designer Terrence Foster, whom she worked with for ten years, while decorating commercials and prop styling for photographers such as Annie Leibovitz. Jones then designed The Purge, her first big break. Next came Whiplash, then Low Riders, and most recently, Insidious 4. In 2016, she designed the first season of Corporate, an office comedy on Comedy Central, and worked with Liz Meriwether on pilots Thin Ice for Fox and The Legend of Master Legend for Amazon. Jones is currently designing The Dirt, a Netflix film about Motley Crue. Born and raised in Israel, INBAL WEINBERG received her BFA in film from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in 2003. While at school, Inbal combined her passion for fine arts and film into a concentration in Production Design, and soon after graduating was given a chance to design her first feature for her mentor, filmmaker Hal Hartley. Always searching for innovative stories told by unique voices, Inbal has collaborated with indie luminaries, such as Derek Cianfrance, Dee Rees, James Schamus, Ava DuVernay, Cary Fukanaga and recently, Martin McDonagh on Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Based in New York, Inbal loves to travel for work, both in the US and abroad. She recently returned from eight months in Italy and Germany designing a remake of the classic horror film Suspiria for Italian director Luca Guadagnino. Inbal is also the co-founder of the Production Designers Collective, an international group of over 300 Production Designers dedicated to sharing knowledge and promoting the craft of Production Design. Growing up, EVE McCARNEY had a knack for art and being creative. She loved spending her time sketching, sculpting, painting and shooting photos. She won several local art awards as a child and continued to develop her artistic sensibilities as an adult. Eve graduated from Villanova University with a BA in media & film and a minor in art history, yet, it wasn't until she stepped on a short film set in New York that she knew she found her calling. Six months later, she took the plunge and moved to Los Angeles to pursue filmmaking full time. Since moving to Los Angeles ten years ago, Eve has had the good fortune of designing challenging projects alongside talented filmmakers, such as Terry Rossio, James Franco, Kevin Pollack and Jean-François Richet.