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M A R C H / A P R I L 2 0 2 6 | P E R S P E C T I V E 5 C O N T R I B U T O R S S A R A H D E L U C C H I is originally from the Bay Area, with a background in Art Direction spanning television and film. She began her career working in visual effects, virtual Art Department, post- visualization and motion capture, which shaped her interest in how practical Production Design intersects with emerging technologies. Her I VA N F R A S E R is an Art Director who started off his career back in 2003 in sunny South Africa. He was born and raised in Christiana, a small farming town in the middle of the country. Having the space and freedom, with the responsibilities of caring for equipment and animals, has set him up with a solid foundation. Creativity starts with playing in the mud and creating stuff and then having to think on your feet to come up with a solution. Ivan is a film school graduate (AFDA Cape Town). He took coming up through the ranks very seriously, working 10 years in Cape Town, covering all positions in the Art Department to know what it S U Z I E D AV I E S is a two-time Academy Award nominee known for her immersive, detailed and period- specific designs. Recent work includes the Academy Award Best Picture nominee Conclave for director Edward Berger, for which she won an ADG Award and BFDG Award and was nominated at the Academy, BAFTA, and Critics Choice awards. Davies was lauded for her recreation of the Vatican's Sistine Chapel, as well as her inclusion of human details, which grounded the film's dignified characters. Davies' other notable credits include Emerald Fennell's Saltburn, for which she won Best Production Design at the ADG, SDSA, and BFDG awards, and Will Sharpe's The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, for which biggest mentors have been friends: Kitty Dorris Bates, Andrew Jones and especially Tom Meyer. Outside of work, she enjoys reading, riding her Peloton, rewatching Heated Rivalry and spending time with fat cat Gabe. takes to get the job done. Big fish in a small pond is what got Ivan to move to Los Angeles in 2019. Becoming part of the ADG in 2020 definitely forced him to up his skill set in order to work on the world's biggest stage. Human relationships have been his biggest asset. Nine Super Bowl commercials in four years and working under the guidance of PD David Skinner, has been quite a learning curve. Big- named projects for the Super Bowl with A-list celebrities include: BMW-Imitations. NFL-Run with It. Bookings.com-Somewhere, Anywhere (2023 ADG Award winner), Verizon-Cable Guy, Toyota-The Jones's, BMW-Zeuss, and Bud Light-Legends. Ivan believes that every day is a test of willingness and in order to be your best, you need to stay humble and be willing to learn and get shaped. she won a BFDG awards, and was nominated for a British Independent Film Award. She frequently collaborates with director Mike Leigh, having designed Hard Truths, which premiered at Toronto International Film Festival, Peterloo, which premiered at Venice Film Festival and earned Davies a British Independent Film Awards nomination, and Mr. Turner, which premiered at Cannes Film Festival, was nominated for the Palme d'Or, and earned Davies nominations from the Academy and BAFTA awards. Previous credits include Dominic Cooke's The Courier and On Chesil Beach, both of which premiered at Sundance Film Festival, as well as Niki Caro's The Zookeeper's Wife and Philippa Lowthorpe's Swallows and Amazons. Based in the UK, Davies' upcoming work includes Dylan Southern's The Thing with Feathers, which stars Benedict Cumberbatch and premiered at Sundance Film Festival, Kyle Balda's Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Movie, and Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights, starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi.