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1 2 P E R S P E C T I V E | M AY / J U N E 2 0 2 2 J A S O N K I S VA R D AY spent most of his free time (and allowance) as a kid at the local hobby shop in Los Angeles. It's a habit he never grew out of. Despite these hobbies consuming a considerable amount of his time and attention, he somehow managed to graduate from business school at LMU. In 2002, he left his desk at Sony Pictures to spend a year backpacking across Asia. When he returned to Los Angeles, he played drums in a local band while P.A.ing on commercials, working as a prop assistant for fashion shoots under Bill Doig, and interning at miniature effects company New Deal Studios. When the band broke up, Jason blended his personal and professional passions to become a Production Designer, starting with low-budget music videos, and transitioning into commercials and features, while working in tandem with brilliant collaborators like the Daniels and Hiro Murai. Jason now resides in Los Angeles with his longtime set decorator (and fiancée!) Kelsi Ephraim and an angry chihuahua named Roger. He spends his free time indulging in the same hobbies he's loved all along: 3D printing radio-controlled cars, working on real cars and occasionally working at the local stunt-driving school. C H A E K Y O U N G - S U N made her debut as an Art Director of the independent film Come Closer and participated in more than 16 films as an Art Director. She won the Art Award at the 48th Daejong Film Awards with Detective K: Secret of Virtuous Widow in 2011, and once again with The Royal Tailor in 2015. With Netflix series Squid Game, her fourth collaboration with director Hwang Dong-hyuk following Silenced, Miss Granny and The Fortress, Chae has notched an accolade at the 26th Art Directors Guild Awards in the One Hour Contemporary Single- Camera Series category. She lives in Seoul with her 1-year-old daughter and husband. She is busy shooting an OTT series, preparing for the preproduction of a romantic comedy movie, and exploring her interest in the field of fine art. A N D R E W L AW S is a Production Designer with over 20 years of experience working with the challenges and diversity of a range of genres in the film and television industries. Born in the UK to Scottish parents, his family emigrated to the US in the early 1970s, and lived in both Canada and in the Middle East before settling back in Los Angeles. Laws completed his Bachelor of Arts degree in fine arts at the University of California, Santa Cruz and his master studies in architecture at the University of California, Los Angeles. In 1997, he began a formative working relationship with noted Production Designer David Wasco, who mentored him throughout projects as Assistant Art Director and Art Director before supporting him to move on to production design his first feature film in 1999. Since then, Laws has served as Production Designer on 24 projects in both film and television in 32 cities and 14 countries around the world. He now lives in West London with his wife Jessica and their three children, Oscar, Ella and Beatrix. D I A N E L E D E R M A N has been a major creative force in film design since the early 1990s. Over the course of her career, Lederman has worked on projects ranging from small independent art films to big-budget studio productions. Her early work as a set decorator laid the groundwork for her future design career and includes credits on such films as I Shot Andy Warhol, Summer of Sam, Wall Street 2, Tower Heist, Limitless, Phil Spector and The Butler. Making her mark as a Production Designer, Lederman has worked on some of the most critically acclaimed shows on televison today. Projects such as The Leftovers, for HBO, The Americans, for FX, Thirteen Reasons Why, for Netflix, and Little America. The Passage, for FOX, gave Lederman the opportunity to break from reality-based set design and explore the world of science fiction. Among Lederman's latest projects; the film CODA, which won several awards at the Sundance Film Festival and Best Picture at the Academy Awards and season two of Russian Doll, recently released on Netflix. C O N T R I B U T O R S