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8 P E R S P E C T I V E | N O V E M B E R / D E C E M B E R 2 0 2 5 N AT H A N C R O W L E Y began his career in Islington, London, and honed his skills at the Brighton School of Art. His early twenties saw him transition to Hollywood, where he made his mark as 2nd Unit Art Director on Bram Stoker's Dracula, embracing practical in-camera techniques. Crowley's career path led him to Dublin, Ireland, to work on films directed by Alan Pakula and Barry Levinson. Upon his return to the United States, he began a significant collaboration with Christopher Nolan on the film Insomnia, kicking off a series of successful projects. S C O T T C H A M B L I S S is a Production Designer for feature motion pictures and streaming series. His latest feature is the musical Kiss of the Spider Woman (2025), directed by Bill Condon. For a designer too often pigeonholed in the science fiction genre, this was a delightful and welcome change of pace. Other notable feature credits include Godzilla King of the Monsters (2019), Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017), Tomorrowland (2015), Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), Cowboys & Aliens (2011), Salt (2010), Star Trek TA M A R A D E V E R E L L began her career in small Canadian features and commercials in the mid-1980s. Hailing from Vancouver, B.C., she has worked across Canada in Vancouver, Montreal, Halifax and Toronto, as well as in New York, Buffalo, Los Angeles and the U.K. First working in the costume department, Tamara discovered that her combined artistic talent and love of cinema could be fully realized in the Art F L O R E N C I A M A R T I N was born in Santa Monica, CA, and grew up in both L.A. and Argentina, her family's home country. She received her BFA from Carnegie Mellon University, where she majored in theatrical set design, and upon graduating, began her career as an Art Department assistant.Fascinated by being on-set and building (2009), Mission: Impossible III (2006). The television series Alias (2001-2004) was the job that put him on the map in our business. Over the years, Chambliss has had the opportunity to work with some extraordinary film and television directors. For more than a decade, he was constant collaborator with writer/director J.J. Abrams. Other gifted directors he's worked with include Brad Bird, Jon Favreau, Philip Noyce, James Gunn, Neil Burger and Michael Dougherty. Chambliss won an Emmy Award and an Art Directors Guild Award for his work on Alias. He was also nominated for the Art Directors Guild Award for Tomorrowland, Star Trek Into Darkness, Cowboys & Aliens and Star Trek. Department. Learning architectural drafting and graphic design both in night school and on the job, Tamara quickly rose in the Art Department to Art Director and Production Designer. She has worked on a variety of projects, from X-Men to Star Trek to Nightmare Alley. She is a long-standing collaborator of Guillermo del Toro, working with him since the mid-1990s. Tamara raised her family of two children with her husband in Toronto, where she lived and worked in film and television for over 35 years. Tamara now lives in a unique passive house that she designed with her husband off the coast of West Cape Breton in Nova Scotia, with their new puppy Django. the world of a character, she turned to the set decoration department to continue learning the ropes of film production. In 2019, Florencia was given the opportunity by writer/director Andrew Dominik to design his feature film Blonde. After reuniting with writer/ director Paul Thomas Anderson on a series of music videos for the group HAIM, she went on to production design his feature Licorice Pizza, and was the Production Designer on writer/director Damien Chazelle's 1920s-Hollywood epic Babylon, which won an ADG Award for Best Period Film. His work has earned him a host of accolades, including Academy Award nominations for The Prestige, The Dark Knight, Interstellar, Dunkirk, First Man, Tenet and Wicked for which he won the Academy Award. He has also received six BAFTA nominations for his work. In television, his skills were recognized with an Emmy nomination for HBO's Westworld. His talents also extend to the art world; he has designed four exhibitions for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute in New York City that accompany the Met Gala. Crowley excels in creating immersive, detailed worlds, combining traditional and modern techniques. His range is evident in his work, spanning from the Batman trilogy and Interstellar to Wonka and Wicked.