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J A N U A R Y / F E B R U A R Y 2 0 2 6 | P E R S P E C T I V E 9 I N B A L W E I N B E R G After graduating from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in the early 2000s, Inbal started designing independent films in New York. She consequently collaborated with a roster of auteur directors locally and internationally such as Martin McDonagh (Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing), Maggie Gyllenhaal (The Lost Daughter), Luca Guadagnino (Suspiria) and Pedro Almodovar (The Room Next Door). Inbal has collaborated with director Derek Cianfrance on his award-nominated projects Blue Valentine, The Place Beyond the Pines, I Know This Much Is True and Roofman. Inbal is the co-founder of the Production Designers Collective, a global community of Production Designers. She is the organizer of the Production Designers Gathering and International Production Design Week. B E N P R O C T E R Born and bred in New York City, Ben moved to Los Angeles in 2000 to pursue his Hollywood dreams. Starting with VXF and cinematic previsualization on the Matrix sequels and Pirates of the Caribbean, he quickly made the jump into movie Art Departments, contributing key concept design and Art Direction for films such as Transformers (as robot designer and Art Director), Prometheus (working with Ridley Scott, ADG Award nom), Tron: Legacy (as VFX Art Director, ADG Award nom), and the first Avatar (as Concept Art Director, ADG Award win). Ben made the leap into film Production Design in 2012 with Ender's Game, and is currently co-designing the Avatar sequels with Dylan Cole. They were nominated for the Oscar in Production Design for Avatar: The Way of Water. J A M E S P R I C E was born and grew up on a small family farm in north Herefordshire, UK. After gaining a BA in Applied Arts (1995-98), he moved to London to study a Masters in Production Design for TV and Film at Kingston University (2000-2001). James established himself as an Art Director working on diverse projects such as Bullet Boy, Grow Your Own, Southcliff, Kill Your Friends, Paddington 2 and Trust. In 2018, James production designed his first feature film, Sean Durkin's The Nest, starring Jude Law and Carrie Coon. 2020 saw James, a self-confessed espionage nut, design James Watkins' The Ipcress File, a six-part TV miniseries based on Len Deighton's 1962 cold war novel. James has continued his collaboration with James Watkins in 2023 on the feature film Speak No Evil for Blumhouse. In 2019, James and Shona Heath were asked to collaborate on the Production Design for Yorgos Lanthimos' and Searchlight Pictures' Poor Things. For his creative design, James received the Oscar for Best Production Design in 2024. Recently, James continued his collaboration with Sean Durkin and cinematographer Matyas Erdely on the Iron Claw. C O N T R I B U T O R S