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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 2 2 F L O R E N C I A M A R T I N is a native of Los Angeles. She is the Production Designer on two of 2022's most highly anticipated films, Damien Chazelle's Babylon (starring Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie) O L A M A S L I K is a Production Designer born and raised in Lublin, Poland, and based in New York City where she lives with her husband and 4-year-old daughter, Zosia. She was originally trained as a Graphic Designer and art printer and received her first MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, where also she studied puppetry at the Studio for Puppet Theatre Actors. While in New York to exhibit her works in puppetry at the NYC Independent Film Festival, she applied and was accepted for an internship with Richard Foreman of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater. After completion of the internship, Foreman recommended her to Yale School of Drama where she studied under Ming Cho Lee and received her second MFA in set design in 2006. She began her career in theater, where her unique talents as a Set Designer came to light by marrying a profound understanding of story with production design on a macro and micro level. Since 2020, Ola has been the Production Designer on Gossip Girl, a new HBO Max original series, and an associate professor at the NYU Tish School for the Arts where she teaches production design. J O N H U T M A N most recently designed Aaron Sorkin's Being the Ricardos, Chris Columbus' The Christmas Chronicles 2, Eli Roth's The House With a Clock in Its Walls and Alex Kurtzman's The Mummy. Before that, he designed a series of films with director Angelina Jolie: Unbroken, By the Sea and In the Land of Blood and Honey. He first worked with Jolie on The Tourist, directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. Hutman collaborated four times with Nancy Meyers, on What Women Want, Something's Gotta Give, The Holiday and It's Complicated. He received Art Directors Guild Award nominations for his work on Something's Gotta Give and Unbroken. His other recent credits include Scott Waugh's Need for Speed and Adam Shankman's Rock of Ages. For television, Hutman was honored with both an Emmy Award and an Art Directors Guild Award for his design on the pilot episode of Aaron Sorkin's The West Wing. Additionally, Hutman produced and directed the series Gideon's Crossing. Hutman's other films include; Dreamcatcher, French Kiss, I Love You to Death, The Horse Whisperer, Quiz Show, A River Runs Through, The Interpreter, Coyote Ugly, Lolita, Nell, Flesh and Bone, Taking Care of Business, Trespass, Meet the Applegates and Little Man Tate. He earned his first credit as a feature Production Designer on Lehmann's cult favorite Heathers. Hutman earned a degree in architecture from Yale University, where he also studied scenic design, painting and lighting at the university's School of Drama. He returned to his native Los Angeles and entered the film industry as an assistant in the Art Department on The Hotel New Hampshire and then as a set dresser on To Live and Die in L.A. Hutman earned Art Director credits on Wanted: Dead or Alive, Shag and Worth Winning before moving up to design films on his own. and Andrew Dominik's Blonde (starring Ana de Armas). Ms. Martin's work as a set decorator includes such films as Jordan Peele's Us, Cathy Yan's Birds of Prey and Kenneth Lonergan's Oscar-winning Manchester by the Sea; she shared Art Directors Guild Award nominations with the design teams from all three of those movies. She has twice been nominated for an Emmy Award, as set decorator on David Lynch's 2017 Twin Peaks and on the limited series Feud: Bette and Joan. Her commercial and music clients have included Apple, Beats, Adidas and the group Haim. Her early training was in theatrical stage design, which she continues to draw on today for her feature film work while focusing on the characters to develop rich visual environments anchored in the narrative. C O N T R I B U T O R S

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