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8 P E R S P E C T I V E | M AY / J U N E 2 0 2 2 M I C H E L L E H A R M O N is a Production Designer who was born and raised in the Maryland/DC area. She credits her passion for art, design and storytelling to her childhood exposure to countless Smithsonian Museum visits. She received a graduate degree in interior architecture from Columbia College Chicago, where she began to see the world through design in a city she adores. After traveling through Europe, she moved to New Orleans where she worked for Habitat for Humanity. While joining the effort to rebuild the city, she met her husband who is a builder of all things wood and metal. A film commission workshop about how to break into the local industry peaked Michelle's interest and less than a year later, she began her career in television and film as a Set Designer. She worked as Assistant Art Director and Art Director on series, including American Horror Story and On Becoming a God in Central Florida. Her latest Production Design credit includes Peacock's reboot of the cult classic, Queer as Folk. She is inspired daily by the magical city where she resides and the playful spirit of her two sons. B R I A N K A N E was born and raised in Toronto, Canada. He spent his childhood pursuing different artistic mediums that eventually led him to fine arts, fashion and travel. It was during his travels in Europe and the Middle East that he discovered a love of film, finding work on multiple film and television productions during his time abroad. Upon returning to Toronto, Brian started his first design company, focusing on window display and retail merchandising. In 1991, Brian went west to Vancouver on what was to be the first stop on his Asia travels. He met his wife of 30 years, Dee, the day he got there. Two kids,two dogs and three cats later, Brian is still inspired by travel, art and food. Brian has won Emmy and Leo Awards for Production Design on R.L. Stine's Monsterville Cabinet of Souls, an ADG Award for Production Design for Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome, Best Art Direction at the Canadian Music Video Awards for Moist's Push video, as well as Leo and Emmy nominations for his work on Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda. C O N T R I B U T O R S A M E L I A B R O O K E was born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, by an architect father and a psychologist/ neuroscientist mother. Her youth was filled with drafting, models and construction sites, but also performing experiments, asking big questions and trying to understand motives. After going to film school for cinematography at Savannah College of Art and Design, she realized her upbringing, skill set and hands-on approach to storytelling was better fit for Production Design and Art Direction. She relocated to Los Angeles in 2010 and quickly got sucked into making music videos, commercials and indie films with friends. In 2012, she crossed paths with JJ Abrams, beginning a longtime design collaboration of the sci-fi genre. Amelia has since jumped into the world of television, and loves keeping audiences in suspense from week to week. S T E F A N I A C E L L A was born and raised in Milan, Italy, educated in theater and art history. Cella developed a design style highly influenced by the interplay of light, shadow and color. The emotion of lighting and the aesthetic package in which it is presented provides a subtle context that alters reality to enhance a story. It is Cella's sunny studio library, tucked away in the Hollywood Hills, where she has researched, prepared and found inspiration for more than 20 films. Some of those include works with Nick Cassavetes (John Q), Barry Levinson (Man of the Year, What Just Happened) and Paolo Sorrentino (This Must Be the Place, The Great Beauty and Loro). The Great Beauty brought her the highest award in Italy as Best Designer in 2014, the David di Donatello. In 2015, she collaborated with director Scott Cooper on Black Mass, starring Johnny Depp as Whitey Bulger. She followed this achievement with her design for Downsizing, directed by Alexander Payne, and White Boy Rick, directed by Yann Demage. After her third collaboration with Paolo Sorrentino for the epic 4-hour feature on tycoon Silvio Berlusconi's Loro, she worked with Noah Hawley for the astronaut- based story, Lucy in the Sky, starring Natalie Portman. Stefania's most recent film is the Sony-Marvel adventure, Morbius.