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N O V E M B E R / D E C E M B E R 2 0 2 4 | P E R S P E C T I V E 1 1 S A M T U N G is a Storyboard artist for live action, animation and video games based in Los Angeles, California. He grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, and attended Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, where he focused on screenwriting and medieval literature. While working as a production assistant and C R A I G L AT H R O P is best known for his collaborations with director Robert Eggers, having designed all of his feature-length films, including The Witch (2015), The Lighthouse (2019), The Northman (2022) and this year's Nosferatu. Craig grew up in Southern California and studied theatre at Cal State Northridge and San Francisco M A R K S C R U T O N Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is Scruton's third collaboration with director Tim Burton, having also designed the award-winning Netflix series Wednesday, for which he was awarded British Film Designers Guild Award for Best Production Design and nominated for Excellence in Production Design by K A L I N A I VA N O V most recently created the Production Design for the feature films The Boys in the Boat and The Tender Bar, both directed by George Clooney. Of late, she completed the HBO series The Penguin. She also designed the HBO award-winning series Lovecraft Country, for which she received her second ADG Award nomination. Prior to that, she earned a Primetime Emmy Award and ADG Award for the Production Design of the HBO film Grey Gardens, directed by Michael Sucsy. State University. He began his career designing sets and lighting for theatre until eventually working in the Art Department. His first jobs there were on the television shows Seinfeld and In Living Color and as an Assistant Art Director on John Amiel's film Copycat. Craig's first Production Design credit was for John Stockwell's HBO film Cheaters (2000). More recent credits include the designs for Antonio Campos's The Devil All the Time (2020), David Prior's The Empty Man (2020) and Willian Oldroyd's Eileen (2023). Craig lives in Toronto, Canada, with his wife, Jennifer Roblin. They have three wonderful children: Siân, Bronwen and Euan. the ADG Awards and nominated for Outstanding Production Design by the Primetime Emmy Awards. Scruton's first film with Burton was Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children as an Art Director. He is best known for his work as the Supervising Art Director on Gravity, Alfonso Cuaron's Academy Award-winning space thriller. Earlier credits include working as Supervising Art Director on the ADG-nominated Ready Player One, The Current War, Jason Bourne; Jupiter Ascending, Fury, Bride and Prejudice and Bend It Like Beckham. coordinator at VFX studio Digital Domain, he did most of his art training at Concept Design Academy in Pasadena. Sam's career includes dozens of films, series, games and commercials, including Twisters, X-Men '97, and the upcoming Metroid Prime 4, as well as work with directors like Jon Favreau, Gore Verbinski and Christopher Nolan. He currently serves as the secretary for the Illustrators & Matte Artists in Local 800. In Local 839, The Animation Guild, he serves on their AI Task Force and 2024 Negotiations Committee. He lives in Claremont with his wife, son and dog. In addition, Kalina has lent her talents to the films Wonder, Long Shot and the Emmy-winning Netflix series Seven Seconds. Her long collaboration with director Robert Redford culminated in the design of the period drama The Conspirator. Her other notable films include the Oscar-nominated Little Miss Sunshine, Max, Poltergeist, Rabbit Hole, Made of Honor, Brown Sugar, The Best Man, Household Saints, Smoke and many others. Kalina is a co-founder of the Production Designers Collective and a proud member and Governor of the Production Design branch at AMPAS. C O N T R I B U T O R S