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8 P E R S P E C T I V E | S E P T E M B E R / O C T O B E R 2 0 2 0 C O N T R I B U T O R S M A R K F R E E B O R N Born in Ottawa, Ontario, my family moved to Kingston when I was 9. y first paid drafting job was drawing expropriation plans for my father, a department of highways appraiser. I was 9! After a somewhat raucous high school career, my guidance counselor suggested since I knew all the tricks, I should become a teacher. A chance encounter with an actress resulted in my falling in love with her, and the entertainment business. The next few years consisted of architectural college and theater. I designed and built the original Tarragon Theatre in Toronto, Ontario. I started in film as an assistant set decorator, then, shortly, head of department on Porky's, and A Christmas Story. A move to Vancouver resulted in my transition to Production esigner, first, on oel chumacher's Cousins, then, Jonathan Kaplan's Love Field. My transition to television came with Chris Carter's Millennium. I found I liked the energy of television, and have since been involved in, among others, The X-Files, Bates Motel, Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. J O S E P H T. G A R R R I T Y holds a BA degree from Temple niversity's chool of Communications and Theater and an MFA in Production Design from The American Film Institute Conservatory. For 35 years, Garrity has designed feature films, including Runaway Train (as Art Director), Weeds, My Girl, Drop Dead Fred, Son- In-Law, Imaginary Crimes, Sunshine Cleaning, Cake and Mr. Church and I Can Only Imagine. arrity met hristopher uest in and was chosen to design Guest's directorial debut feature The Big Picture. arrity has designed most of uest's films since, including Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, For Your Consideration and Family Tree for O. arrity has just completed his second feature with the directors of I Can Only Imagine called I Still Believe for Lionsgate Films. Garrity also teaches and serves as department head for Production Design at The American Film Institute Conservatory in Los Angeles, CA. M O L LY H U G H E S first learned what Production Design was by watching Wings of Desire in Oxford, that happened to be playing next to the pub where she worked while studying English there in . fter this light bulb" moment, she went on to earn her in et esign from in , before starting out as an rt epartment P on films in ew ork. One of those films lead her to a job with Production esigner tuart Craig, which eventually led to a decades-long tenure in his Art Department, eventually as an Art Director, on six of the eight Harry Potter films in the . Molly moved with her husband and young children to Philadelphia in . mong her upcoming projects to be released this year besides Disney's The One and Only Ivan, are Ron Howard's Hillbilly Elegy and Charlie Kaufman's I Am Thinking of Ending Things. In the last several years, Molly has become intently focused on achieving gender equity in the Art Department, hoping to continue to narrow the wage and employment gap between male and female Production esigners on feature films. G R A N T M A J O R was born in Palmerston North, and Television New Zealand is where his career in design began. His background ranges from Production Design for Commonwealth Games ceremonies to designer for the New Zealand Pavilions at the World Expo, to design consultant for the Louis uitton th year party. ajor received an honorary doctorate from his alma mater The Auckland niversity of echnology and has become an Ocer of the New Zealand Order of Merit. rant ajor was nominated for both an cademy Award and a BAFTA for his work as Production Designer on King Kong and The Lord of the Rings trilogy. He won the Oscar for The Return of the King. He won an American Film Institute Award for The Fellowship of the Ring, as well as an Art Directors Guild Award for The Two Towers and The Return of the King. He also won quite a few New Zealand Film and Television Awards for Best Design. Those include Heavenly Creatures, An Angle at My Table, Memory & Desire,The Ugly and The Vintner's Luck.