In this session of Lockdown Film School, we present a production design masterclass with Suzie Davies and Stéphane Collonge.
Who is Suzie Davies?
Starting as a model maker and sculptor in the ’90s, and then and Art Director on and off camera, Suzie has now been working as a production designer on TV and film since 2005. She was nominated for an Oscar for production design on Mr Turner and has since re-collaborated with Mike Leigh on Peterloo, for which she was nominated for a British Independent Film Award. Seventh Row first interviewed Davies about her work on On Chesil Beach, and an in-depth interview with her on her work with Mike Leigh appears in our ebook Peterloo in process: A Mike Leigh collaboration.
Click here to read our interview with Suzie Davies on On Chesil Beach.
Click here to read our interview with Suzie Davies on Peterloo.
Where can you watch Suzie Davies’s films?
Peterloo (Mike Leigh, 2018): Stream on 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 Prime; rent on 🇨🇦 iTunes
On Chesil Beach (Dominic Cooke, 2017): Stream on 🇨🇦 Netflix; 🇺🇸 Prime, Kanopy
The Zookeeper’s Wife (Niki Caro, 2017): Stream on 🇨🇦 Netflix; 🇺🇸 HBO Go, DIRECTV
Swallows and Amazons (Philippa Lowthorpe, 2016): Stream on 🇺🇸 Prime, YouTube Free, Hoopla, Vudu, Kanopy, Pluto TV
Mr. Turner (Mike Leigh, 2014): Stream on 🇨🇦 Prime, Tubi
Who is Stéphane Collonge?
Stéphane Collonge is a production designer and costume designer, perhaps best known for his ongoing collaboration with Joanna Hogg. He served in both roles for Hogg’s first three features — Unrelated (2007), Archipelago (2010), and Exhibition (2013) — and served as the production designer on The Souvenir (2019), for which he was nominated for a British Independent Film Award, and The Souvenir Part II (2020). He has also served as the production designer for My Brother the Devil (2012), God’s Own Country (2017), and most recently, the BBC mini-series Trigonometry (2020). An in-depth interview with Collonge about his decade-spanning collaboration with Joanna Hogg appears in our ebook Tour of Memories: The creative process behind Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir.
Click here to read our interview with Stéphane Collonge on The Souvenir.
Where can you watch Stéphane Collonge’s films?
The Souvenir (Joanna Hogg, 2019): Stream on 🇨🇦 Crave; 🇺🇸 Prime, Kanopy 🇬🇧 Mubi
God’s Own Country (Francis Lee, 2017): Stream on 🇨🇦 Netflix; 🇺🇸 Roku, Hoopla, Kanopy;
Exhibition (Joanna Hogg, 2013): Stream on 🇨🇦 Hoopla; 🇺🇸 Prime, Hoopla, Vudu, Kanopy; 🇬🇧 BFI Player
My Brother the Devil (Sally El Hosaini, 2012): Stream on 🇺🇸 Realeyz; 🇬🇧 Prime, BFI Player
Archipelago (Joanna Hogg, 2010): Stream on 🇺🇸 Prime, Vudu, Kanopy
Unrelated (Joanna Hogg, 2007): Stream on 🇺🇸 Vudu, Kanopy; 🇬🇧 BFI Player
Books featuring Suzie Davies and Stéphane Collonge
Catch up with Lockdown Film School
All our past episodes are up on YouTube. Subscribe to our channel here. Find the Lockdown Film School playlist here.
Session 1: Penny Lane and Carol Nguyen on creative nonfiction filmmaking
Session 2: Ashley Connor and Catherine Lutes on cinematography
Session 3: April Napier and Grace Snell on costume design
Session 4: Stephen Cone and Ashley McKenzie on low budget filmmaking
Session 5: Madeleine Olnek and Anne Émond on making films about female writers
Session 6: Philippe Falardeau on Mina Shum on directing
UPCOMING: Alice Winocour on directing (Thursday 25th June, 14:00ET)
UPCOMING: Lily Gladstone and Frank Mosley on acting (Sunday 5th July, 17:00ET)
UPCOMING: Jasmin Mozaffari and Darya Zhuk on making your first feature (Sunday 12th July, 17:00ET)
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