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N O V E M B E R / D E C E M B E R 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 C A R A B R O W E R Hedda marks Cara Brower's third collaboration with director Nia DaCosta, following Candyman and The Marvels. This rewarding and formative collaboration has taken her across genres—from contemporary, stylized horror to sci-fi and fantasy to period drama. S T E FA N I A C E L L A was born and raised in Milan, Italy, educated in theater and art history. Her work is distinguished by a refined sensitivity to the interplay of light, shadow and color that creates an emotional and aesthetic dialogue that subtly alters reality to enhance story. It is in Cella's sunny studio library, tucked away in the Hollywood Hills, where she has researched, prepared and found inspiration for more than 25 film and television projects. Her collaborations span an array of acclaimed directors, including Nick Cassavetes (John Q), Barry H A N N A H B E A C H L E R made history as the first African American Production Designer to be nominated for and win an Academy Award for her work on Marvel's Black Panther, directed by frequent collaborator Ryan Coogler. She returned for its highly anticipated sequel, Marvel's Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Beachler is the first-ever female Production Designer of a Marvel film franchise and oversaw multimillion-dollar art budgets and crews of several hundred people. She previously collaborated with Coogler on Creed, and Coogler's directorial debut, Fruitvale Station Cara's love for film began while growing up in rural Kentucky, where the movie screen became a portal to surreal and otherworldly places. She began working as a Production Designer after serving as an Art Director on projects by renowned directors such as David Lynch, David Fincher, Jordan Peele, and Joel and Ethan Coen. Levinson (Man of the Year, What Just Happened), Alexander Payne (Downsizing) and Paolo Sorrentino (This Must Be the Place, The Great Beauty, Loro). The Great Beauty earned her Italy's highest honor for Production Design, the David di Donatello Award in 2014. In 2015, she began an ongoing creative partnership with director Scott Cooper on Black Mass, followed by The Pale Blue Eye and the upcoming Deliver Me From Nowhere, starring Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen. Cella's filmography also includes White Boy Rick (directed by Yann Demange, starring Sean Penn), Lucy in the Sky (directed by Noah Hawley, starring Natalie Portman), and multiple entries into in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, including Moon Knight and Morbius. Most recently, she was Production Designer for Coogler's critically-acclaimed box office mega-hit, Sinners. Director Barry Jenkins chose Beachler to design the production sets for his Best Picture Oscar-winning film Moonlight, Her many credits also include Steven Soderbergh's No Sudden Move, Todd Haynes' docu-narrative feature film Dark Waters and The Collaboration, directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah, which she designed both the upcoming feature film and the play at London's Young Vic. She recently wrapped Children of Blood and Bone, shot in South Africa, directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood. Beachler grew up in Centerville, Ohio, and graduated from the University of Cincinnati where she studied fashion design. She also attended Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, where she studied film. She lives in New Orleans.