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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 6 C O N T R I B U T O R S F I O N A C R O M B I E is an Australian Production Designer based in London. Originally trained as a theater set and costume designer, Fiona decided to switch her path after ten years of working in the Australian theater M AT T H E W D AV I E S In a career spanning almost 30 years, Matthew Davies has designed more than twenty feature films and a dozen series for television, garnering him numerous nominations by his industry peers. Select high-profile television credits include all three seasons of Bryan Fuller's Hannibal for NBC/Gaumont, American Gods for Amazon and Five Days at Memorial for Apple+ created by Carlton Cuse and John Ridley. Recent feature film highlights include John Madden's Miss Sloane, starring Jessica Chastain; Atom Egoyan's D Y L A N C O L E is the Academy Award– nominated Co- Production Designer of Avatar: The Way of Water and Avatar: Fire and Ash. He leads design for the entire Avatar franchise with Ben Procter, focusing on the moon of Pandora— its environments, creatures, characters and industry. Commercials, short films and video clips became her film school. Then in 2010, Fiona production and costume designed her first feature, The Snowtown Murders. Crombie's following projects include Yorgos Lanthimos' The Favourite, Jane Campion's Top of the Lake, Craig Gillespie's Cruella, Ari Aster's Beau is Afraid and Bong Joon Ho's Mickey 17. Fiona's most recent film is Hamnet with director Chloé Zhao. Remember with Christopher Plummer; and Sarah Polley's sophomore feature Take This Waltz, starring Michelle Williams and Seth Rogen. Matthew's projects have opened many international film festivals. In 2008, Fernando Meirelles' adaption of Blindness launched the Festival de Cannes; in 2007 Jeremy Podeswa's Fugitive Pieces was chosen as the opening-night gala at the Toronto International Film Festival; and in 2006, Marc Evans' Snow Cake, starring Sigourney Weaver and Alan Rickman, opened the 2006 Berlin International Film Festival. Born in England, Matthew has made Toronto his home for the last 23 years. Currently, he is designing his second season of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy for Paramount+ at Pinewood Studios, created by Alex Kurtzman and Noga Landau. cultures. With over 20 years in the industry, he has contributed to more than 60 films. Notable credits include senior matte painter on Return of the King, Concept Art Director on Avatar and Production Designer for Maleficent. A Southern California native, Cole has also just published a comprehensive book of his film design work, Creating Worlds: The Disney and 20th Century Studios Cinematic Art of Dylan Cole. He escapes the dark studio to oil paint outdoors whenever possible K A S R A F A R A H A N I i s an Emmy-nominated, award-winning Production Designer known for creating richly imagined worlds that fuse bold visual identity with narrative purpose. His work on Marvel's Loki helped define the series' distinctive, time-bending aesthetic and earned widespread acclaim, solidifying his reputation for inventive, story-driven design at the highest level of motion pictures. Most recently, Farahani served as Production Designer on Marvel's Fantastic Four: First Steps, a project that has already generated Oscar buzz for its ambitious, retro-futuristic world-building and cohesive visual language. Across film and television, his multidisciplinary career is marked by a meticulous command of architecture, color and atmosphere, and a rare ability to translate complex ideas into iconic, cinematic environments.