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1 0 P E R S P E C T I V E | J U L Y / A U G U S T 2 0 2 2 F R A N C O - G I A C O M O C A R B O N E scouted a week for the film They Cloned Tyrone for Netflix, then the pandemic lockdown happened. Life imitates art as the crew arrived at locations wearing the hazmat suit featured in the movie! Franco lives and works out of Silverlake, California. e is a short drive away from his alma mater, the merican Film Institute in Los Feliz, where he received his M in Production Design in and is currently a professor. is collaborations with cademy ward winner Sylvester Stallone Rocky Balboa, Rambo, The Expendables, Creed II and Rambo: Last Blood have linked him inextricably with the star who also shares an Italian heritage and love for hyperbole. Other notable collaborations are with director Eli Roth Hostel, Cabin Fever and MC's History of Horror and with legendary film director and cademy ward winner illiam Friedkin, for whom he designed two intense psychodramas, Bug and Killer Joe. Franco works with his partner and husband on domestic and international architecture and interior design proects when not in production. C U R T B E E C H worked his way up through rt Departments in ollywood after completing his MF in theatrical scenic and lighting design at CL. e started as a P on Collateral, before getting into the rt Directors Guild. s an ssistant rt Director, Curt worked in the rt Departments of War of the Worlds, Ocean's Thirteen, Mission: Impossible III, and Get Smart, among others. s an rt Director, Curt helped create the production designs of Star Trek, The Social Network, Greenberg, The Help, and Lincoln. Since moving back to New ork in , Curt has been steadily working as a Production Designer in television, as well as films. s Production Designer, Curt's work includes Till , Only Murders in the Building S, Hunters S, Good Behavior S, Carrie Pilby, November Criminals, She's Gotta Have It S and S, and BlackkKlansman. BlackkKlansman is one of four films Curt has worked on which have been nominated for the cademy ward for est Picture. Curt is a fivetime nominee for the rt Directors Guild ward for Excellence in Production Design in four different categories. Curt started his career teaching and directing theater at The orace Mann School in New ork City, and is still an avid theatergoer. time marathoner, Curt lives in New ork with his wife, Mary eech, and two teenage daughters. L A U R E N C E B E N N E T T ' S feature Production Design credits include In the Valley of Elah, Freedom Writers, Traitor, The Company You Keep, and cademy ward est Picture Crash DG ward nomination. For cademy ward est Picture The Artist, he received Oscar, FT, DG, and FC nominations, and was awarded the Csar by the cadmie Des rts et Techniques du Cinma. Recent features The Water Man, directed by David Oyelowo, and Dog, directed by Channing Tatum and Reid Carolin. For O, he designed the David Simon miniseries Show Me a Hero and The Wizard of Lies, directed by arry Levinson. C O N T R I B U T O R S Television pilots and series include Grey's Anatomy, Billions, The Deuce, Once and Again, EZ Streets, Thief, Mr. Sterling, Sneaky Pete, and The Resident. Limited series The Offer on Paramount. Educated at Occidental College, Los ngeles, and aseda niversity, Tokyo, ennett lived and worked in Ireland for ten years, returning to L to work in film. In Dublin he painted, had a design practice, worked in fringe theatre, and was a lecturer at the National College of rt. Since , he has taught at Escuela Internacionl de Cine y Televisin, in San ntonio de Los aos, Cuba. ennett and his wife live in Oregon.