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6 P E R S P E C T I V E | J A N U A R Y / F E B R U A R Y 2 0 2 5 C O N T R I B U T O R S A R T H U R M A X is a native New Yorker who began his career as a stage lighting designer in the music industry, following graduation from New York University in 1969. Those assignments included work at Bill Graham's famous music venue the Fillmore East in New York's East Village, and the historic Woodstock Festival of 1969. After studying architecture in England L I Z G E O R G O F F most recently worked on 911: Lone Star as an Art Director and a handful of smaller projects as a Production Designer. Having started her career as a set PA on films like Oscar winner The Descendants, Liz worked her way into the Art Department as a union set dresser and in props, eventually working R U TA K I S K Y T E is a TV and film Production Designer with a background in stage design and visual communication. Her design method combines whimsical theatricality with a journalist- like eye for truth and authenticity. Her credits include Sing Sing, the A24 M A R K F R I E D B E R G is a highly accomplished Production Designer known for his visionary approach to storytelling; recreating historical events in Ava DuVernay's Selma, Ed Harris' Pollack and capturing a bygone era in Barry Jenkins' If Beale Street Could Talk, or crafting immersive worlds in The Underground Railroad. He has worked on over three feature films with Ang Lee, notably The Ice Storm. He is especially proud of his work on Synecdoche, New York with Charlie Kaufman and Noah for Darren Aronofsky. as an assistant property master on Marvel films like Iron Man 3 and Captain America: Winter Soldier and eventually as an on-set supervisor for Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame. Liz graduated from the University of Michigan where she studied art history, cultural anthropology and the French language and had an educational career as a server/bartender in Ann Arbor's restaurant scene. She was also a state department intern at the US Embassy in Morocco thinking she wanted to be a foreign service officer before being saved by Hollywood. She lives in LA but leaves often to go on adventures. film starring Oscar-nominated Coleman Domingo, and the Norwegian TV series The Oil Fund. Beyond TV and film, she also worked as a Production Designer on commercials for Tiffany, Jaguar, Under Armour, Porsche and other global brands, as well as music videos for Baby Keem and Jeremy Pope. Ruta's work on the Baby Keem music video earned her silver at the Ciclope Awards for Production Design. Ruta is originally from Lithuania and currently shares her time between Vilnius and Los Angeles. Ruta is an Art Directors Guild of America Local 800 member. (earning degrees in architecture at the Polytechnic of Central London and the Royal College of Art), he entered the British film industry as an assistant to several English Production Designers. First for Stuart Craig on Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes and Cal (both 1984), then for Assheton Gorton on Hudson's Revolution the following year. Max was nominated for four Academy Awards: once each for his Production Design work on Gladiator (2000), American Gangster (2007), The Martian (2015) and Napoleon (2023). His most recent project was Gladiator II, shot in Morocco and Malta, marking his 16th project with director Ridley Scott. Friedberg garnered a BAFTA nomination for his Production Design of Joker. He has also collaborated with Wes Anderson on The Life Aquatic and The Darjeeling Limited and with Julie Taymor on Across the Universe and Tempest. His design for Mildred Pierce earned him an Emmy Award. Other recent design work includes The Whale, the follow up to Joker, Joker: Folie à Deux and the upcoming film Mufasa: The Lion King. Friedberg just finished working on the Spike Lee film High and Low, and is currently designing Caught Stealing for Darren Aronofsky. Mark has designed and served as executive producer on Joker: Folie à Deux, and he has an extensive list of second unit director credits including Joker: Folie à Deux, the mini-series The Underground Railroad, and the feature Wonderstruck.