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Suzie Davies and Stéphane Collonge masterclass: On Production design

In this session of Lockdown Film School, we present a production design masterclass with Suzie Davies and Stéphane Collonge.

Watch the masterclass on production design with Suzie Davies and Stéphane Collonge

Who is Suzie Davies?

(Clockwise from left) Peterloo, On Chesil Beach, and Mr. Turner — all films on which Suzie Davies served as production designer. Suzie Davies is one of our guests for this masterclass on production design. Suzie Davies is joined by Stéphane Collonge for the production design masterclass.
(Clockwise from left) Peterloo, On Chesil Beach, and Mr. Turner — all films on which Suzie Davies served as production designer. Suzie Davies is one of our guests for this masterclass on production design.

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?

(Clockwise from top left) Exhibition, The Souvenir, and God's Own Country — all films on which Stéphane Collonge served as production designer. Stéphane Collonge and Suzie Davies give this masterclass on production design.
(Clockwise from top left) Exhibition, The Souvenir, and God’s Own Country — all films on which Stéphane Collonge served as production designer. Stéphane Collonge is one of our guests for this masterclass on production design.

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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