ADG Perspective

September-October 2022

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S E P T E M B E R / O C T O B E R 2 0 2 2 | P E R S P E C T I V E 5 C O N T R I B U T O R S Will Be Blood and continued to work with him as an Art Director over the course of the next 10 years, before she began designing on her own. It was through Jack that she also met David Crank, and coming up under Jack and David was the most incredible experience. Ruth currently resides in Livingston, Montana, with her husband, producer Charlie Skinner, their daughter, Sadie (3.5 years) and their English Shepherd, Rye. J E R E M Y H I N D L E is a Production Designer for film and television, originally from the UK but currently based in Los Angeles. His earlier credits include working as a set decorator and dresser on the television series Ready or Not, and working as the Production Designer on the short Nike: The Black Mamba. Jeremy is also known for his work on Zero Dark Thirty, True Story and Detroit. Most recently, Jeremy has been working on the recent film Top Gun: Maverick, Escape From Spiderhead and Apple TV+'s Severance. M O L L Y H U G H E S spent more than a decade working as an Art Director, most notably in London on six of the Harry Potter franchise films with Academy Award-winning Production Designer Stuart Craig. She also served as an Art Director on War Horse and as Supervising Art Director on The Bourne Legacy. Molly has been the Production Designer for Hillbilly Elegy for Netflix, Thirteen Lives for MGM and Amazon and I'm Thinking of Ending Things. Currently, she is working with director David Yates again, this time designing his film Pain Hustlers for Netflix. She was nominated for an Art Directors Guild Award for Best Contemporary Film, as well as receiving Best Production Design nominations from the Chicago Film Critics, North Dakota Film Society, San Diego Film Critics, British Film Designers Guild and Georgia Film Critics for the project. Molly has her MFA in Set Design from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where she advises when her schedule permits. She is married to James Lavino and is the proud Mom of two teenagers, Olivia and Owen. R A M S E Y A V E R Y After receiving an MFA in Set Design from CalArts, Avery was Art Director and set decorator on the small midwestern townscape of Roseanne. He has gone on to bring to life the Second Age lands of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. He's contributed, as an Art Director, to the future worlds of Minority Report and A.I., eventually becoming the Supervising Art Director on projects spanning a breadth of time and space, such as Team America; Star Trek: Into Darkness; Mirror Mirror; Tomorrowland; and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. As a Production Designer, Ramsey has designed the films 10 Cloverfield Lane, Hotel Artemis, Peppermint, the upcoming No One Will Save You, and the Sundance selections Waitress and Right at Your Door. He also designed a streaming pilot for Amazon/MGM's, The Consultant. Ramsey recently designed the Avengers Campus for Disney's California Adventure in the Disneyland Resort, including the Webslingers multimedia interactive ride. He has designed or contributed to other attractions and events around the world, including a Don Quixote attraction (with flying pirate ships!) in Japan, the original Winterlit holiday decoration streetscape for the city of Santa Monica, and a Royal Saudi wedding in Riyadh. Along the way, he has kept a hand in theater, designing award- winning regional theater sets from California to New York, as well as a national Christmas tour for Martina McBride. R U T H D E J O N G was born in San Bernardino and lived in Southern California until she was 12, when her family relocated to Charlottesville, Virginia. She received her bachelor of fine arts from Texas Christian University, where she majored in painting, minored in photography, and played soccer for the TCU women's soccer team. The summer before heading off to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts to pursue her masters in painting, Ruth had a course-altering conversation with Jack Fisk. They spoke about designing films, as he too came from a fine arts background, and he encouraged her to give it a try before heading off to grad school. Ruth joined Jack as his assistant on There

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