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J A N U A R Y / F E B R U A R Y 2 0 2 5 | P E R S P E C T I V E 5 C O N T R I B U T O R S I VA N F R A S E R began his career back in 2003 in sunny South Africa. Ivan is a film school graduate (AFDA Cape Town), and has made the industry his career. Ivan spent 10 years working in Cape Town in various R U T H A M M O N is a prolific Production Designer known for creating period, fantasy and contemporary worlds. Growing up in New York and New Jersey, Ammon earned her bachelor degrees in art and art history at Muhlenberg College and Oxford Polytechnic in Oxford, UK. Ruth's work ethic and deep collaborations with filmmakers led her to get the job designing the pilot for the hit series Weeds. Ruth then ventured headlong into television and designed many successful series, including Without a Trace, films/series and also commercials. Looking to expand his career with greater challenges, Ivan moved to Los Angeles in 2019. His approach was to get to know as many people as possible and really understand how the 'Union' side of the industry worked from budget to labor to vendors. Becoming part of the ADG in 2020 has definitely forced him to up his skill set in order to work on the worlds biggest stage. Criminal Minds and Heroes, the latter of which garnered her three Emmy nominations and two ADG Award nominations. From there, Ammon began to design more complex period stories, including I'm Dying Up Here, Manhattan, the true story of the 1940s top secret Manhattan Project and Jack Ryan, where Ammon simultaneously ran Art Departments in three countries. These were followed by The Alienist: Angel of Darkness and Station Eleven, both nominated for ADG Awards, the sci-fi fantasy series Solos, a collection of stories each set in their own unique world and Apple's multigenerational family drama, Pachinko. Currently, Ammon is designing Netflix's The Boroughs, by executive producers Matt and Ross Duffer. F R A N Ç O I S A U D O U Y is a seasoned creative storyteller who has channeled his passion for movies, world-building and Production Design into a 30-year career in the Art Department. His work has drawn the attention of top filmmakers, leading to collaborations on critically acclaimed films such as Air, directed by Ben Affleck and Ford v Ferrari, directed by James Mangold. E M M A N U E L L E D U P L AY began her career as an Assistant Production Designer working with Wim Wenders on the film Jusqu'au bout du monde, Michelangelo Antonioni on Par-delà les nuages and Leos Carax on Pola X. Since 1996, as a Production Designer, she worked with Dominik Moll, Cédric Audouy's collaboration with Mangold also includes The Wolverine and Logan. They reunited again for this year's A Complete Unknown. Audouy recently wrapped The Residence, for Shondaland. and is currently prepping season 3 of the acclaimed HBO series Euphoria. His additional design credits include Ghostbusters: Afterlife (earning a ADG Award nomination), Dracula Untold and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Audouy has also brought his talents to music videos, creating captivating sets for artists such as Billie Eilish and Harry Styles, both of which earned him ADG Awards. Klapisch, Julie Delpy, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Robin Campillo, François Ozon, Alain Guiraudie, Justine Triet, among others. Nominated four times at the Césars in the Best Production Design category for her work on Robin Campillo's 120 Babements par minute, Valérie Lemercier's Aline, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi's Les Amandiers and Justine Triet's Anatomie d'une chute (Oscar for the best screenplay 2024). In the theater scene, with Thierry Klifa as director, she designed sets for plays by Marguerite Duras, Joan Didion and Marcel Mithois.