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March-April 2018

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8 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 Born and raised in Bogota, Colombia, CARLOS BARBOSA started his architecture studies at Universidad De Los Andes. He later moved to New Orleans where he completed his master of architecture studies at Tulane University. New Orleans became Carlos' second home, where his love for blues, jazz, and Zydeco was ignited, as well as his passion for the local cuisine, native architecture and deep multicultural history. He was later recruited by architect Charles Moore's Los Angeles firm of MRY. This brought him to Los Angeles where the world of designing for the silver screen became a real possibility. The shift from architecture to Production Design started when a friend asked him to design his film thesis at USC, followed by an offer to design his first full length feature for Roger Corman. Today, his credits as a Production Designer include Godless, Magic City, season eight and the pilot of 24, for which he was nominated for an Emmy, among many others. In addition to filmmaking, Carlos continues to practice as an architect and has completed projects in California, Louisiana, Florida, Jamaica and Spain. RICK CARTER won an Academy Award for his design of Steven Spielberg's Lincoln in 2013. In 2010, he won the Oscar for his otherworldly Production Design on James Cameron's top-grossing mega-hit Avatar. Carter received his first Oscar nomination for his work on Robert Zemeckis' Forrest Gump and for Steven Spielberg's historic epic War Horse. Carter has also collaborated with Spielberg on such diversely set films as Munich, War of the Worlds, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Amistad, and the blockbusters Jurassic Park and its sequel The Lost World: Jurassic Park. He has been Zemeckis' Production Designer of choice on The Polar Express, Cast Away, What Lies Beneath, Death Becomes Her and Back to the Future, Parts II and III. Carter most recently designed Star Wars—Episode VII with JJ Abrams and Steven Spielberg's BFG. RICK HEINRICHS lived in California for six weeks after he was born, and then again from his mid-twenties to the present. His nomadic early years in-between were mostly due to his professor parents changing universities with some frequency. His post high school education consisted of studio art training at Boston University's SFA, cartooning at New York's SVA with Harvey Kurtzman and Will Eisner, and character animation at CalArts. Employment at WED Enterprises (WDI) and Disney Animation followed where he met several future collaborators, including Tim Burton with whom he produced a stop-motion short, Vincent. Designing and fabricating miniature sets led to designing and building full-size sets and he met designer Bo Welch on Beetlejuice, who brought Rick onboard his next gig and mentored him. Working through the ranks from Set Designer to Art Director, Rick's first break as Production Designer came on the second season of Fallen Angels for Showtime and led directly to his first feature, Fargo, for Joel and Ethan Coen. Rick lives with his wife Dawn and children, Keaton and Grace, in Los Angeles. ELIZABETH H. GRAY, originally from Denver, CO, studied at Goshen College (IN) and abroad before moving to LA in 2004. Her career in the Art Department has led her to work primarily in the world of high-concept cable television design as both Art Director and Production Designer. Her C.V. includes projects for Showtime, Amazon, USA, HBO and SyFy among others, and she has received three Emmy nominations for her work on Showtime's Masters of Sex. She attributes her love for opera, fine arts, travel, storytelling and hard work to her design, career, and life accomplishments.

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