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M AY / J U N E 2 0 2 3 | P E R S P E C T I V E 5 C O N T R I B U T O R S Joe continues his work with Wētā Workshop as an Art Director, working with a group of tremendously talented artists, technicians, and friends who together strive to innovate and push the boundaries of their art form. L U K E H U L L is a talented and versatile Production Designer who has worked on a number of projects across film, television and commercial mediums. Hull studied at the National Film & Television School where he worked on an impressive array of recognized short films, including The Confession, which was nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Short Film and won the Honorary Foreign Film Award at the Student Academy Awards in 2011. He began his career working with some of the industry's finest Production Designers, including Andrew McAlpine on Dustin Hoffman's Quartet and on Half of a Yellow Sun shot in Nigeria, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor and Thandie Newton. In 2013, Hull worked with Simon Bowles on Amma Asante's Belle and as Art Director for Gemma Jackson on the first series of Sky Atlantic's Fortitude and also with Gemma on Guy Ritchie's feature film Knights of the Round Table: King Arthur. Hull made the transition to Production Designer on Tobias Tobell's thriller Confine and on Sean Spencer's Panic. He then went on to design the second series of Sky Atlantic's Fortitude, working with directors Hettie Macdonald, Kieron Hawkes and Metin Huseyin. Hull worked alongside Hettie Macdonald again on the BBC miniseries Howard's End. In 2018, Hull designed the critically acclaimed Chernobyl for Sky Atlantic, HBO and Sister Pictures with director Johan Renck. For this project, he received a Television Academy Award for Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Period or Fantasy Program, along with other wins at the Royal Television Society Craft & Design Awards, the British Film Designers Guild Awards, the Art Directors Guild Awards and the BAFTA Craft Awards. He went on to design the pilot for Bloodmoon for HBO with director S.J. Clarkson and showrunner/writer Jane Goldman. Hull was selected as one of the Stars of Tomorrow for Screen International, and was one of the BAFTA Breakthough Brits in 2019. M I C H A E L B R I C K E R In addition to his work on Netflix's limited series Kaleidoscope, Michael also designed the international thriller series Hit & Run and the first season of Natasha Lyonne's Russian Doll, for which he won both a Primetime Emmy and an Art Directors Guild Award for Outstanding Production Design. He splits his time between New York, Los Angeles and Sydney, Australia, where he's currently designing an upcoming mystery series. J O E D U N C K L E Y began his career in 2000 working at Wētā on Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy in costume props where he assembled armour for the Gondorian, Orc and Elven armies. After working in the paint department and with the Wētā on-set team, he was promoted to the leads armour weapons standby team where he learned the ropes from Matt Appleton and Emily Sturrock who mentored him in his early career. In 2003, he was asked to be personal armourer standby for Tom Cruise on The Last Samurai, an experience that allowed him to put all he had learned into practice. Over the years, Joe built armour and weapons for the Narnia films, built creatures and prosthetics for movies like 30 Days of Night and District 9, and worked on set looking after costume props and weapons on Avatar. Joe was key armourer weapons on The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe where he met his future wife, Sarah Rubano. Together, Sarah and Joe have worked all over the world on many large-scale films. They have supervised the production of SFX makeup, alien technology and weapons, specialty costume props, creature design and construction, and gore FX. His work can be seen on such films as The Amazing Spider-Man, The Green Goblin, Prince Caspian, Ghost in the Shell, and Spectral. In 2011, Joe became the props department supervisor at Wētā Workshop on The Hobbit trilogy and later Elysium, where he and Sarah were responsible for the animatronic weapons, gore FX, specialty costume, prosthetically integrated tech, specialty props and HULC suits.