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S E P T E M B E R / O C T O B E R 2 0 2 6 | P E R S P E C T I V E 5 photo credit: Tyler Scenic S A R A K W H I T E is a Production Designer who grew up constantly daydreaming while slowly completing her paper route in southern Ohio. Starting with a stint in corporate architecture, she discovered a passion for filmmaking when a friend asked her to create a 1950s mermaid lair, hooking her on the magic of Production Design. She served as Art Director in Residence at the Sundance Directors Lab for several years before embarking on her career as a Production Designer. Early films include Gillian Robespierre's daring rom-com Obvious Child, Silas Howard's trans family drama A Kid Like Jake, Sîan Heder's maternal treatise Tallulah and Cary Murnion and Jon Millot's dystopian drama Bushwick, all which have premiered at Sundance. She recently wrapped production on Mike Flanagan's The Exorcist: Martyrs. Sara K was nominated for Emmy, ADG and SDSA Awards for her work on HBO Max's The Flight Attendant. Other TV work includes the adaptation of Tom Perrotta's Mrs. Fletcher for HBO and Donald Glover's satirical dark comedy Swarm. She's excited to share Susanna Fogel and David Iserson's '70s Soviet spy thriller Ponies with the world. K A R E N T E N E Y C K is originally from the East Coast where she received a BFA in Graphic Design and a graduate degree in Scenic Design from Yale. After moving to New York in 1992, she designed over 65 sets for many of the nation's top regional theaters and opera companies. A job with Los Angeles Opera convinced her to move to LA in 2000. Since then, she has designed graphics for over 60 movies, including Water for Elephants, Zodiac, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master, Trumbo, Get on Up, Ad Astra, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon, Disney's Pinocchio, directed by Robert Zemeckis and Unfrosted, The Story of the Pop Tart, directed by Jerry Seinfeld. She has been a member of two Oscar-winning design teams—Martin Scorsese's The Aviator and Steven Spielberg's Lincoln. She also worked on the Emmy- winning Behind the Candelabra for HBO. Other Oscar nominations include Killers of the Flower Moon, Passengers, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. In 2017, she became a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.