The Road

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Production Designer

Chris Kennedy

Bio

THE ROAD is Chris Kennedy's third film with director John Hillcoat. He did the before production design of Hillcoat’s seminal Australian film, GHOSTS OF THE CIVIL DEAD, which won him his first AFI (Australian Film Institute) Award for Best Production Design in 1989.

Since then Chris has collaborated with a range of filmmakers, exploring a diversity of styles and subjects in films such as COSI and ANGEL BABY. He has won another three AFI Awards for SPOTSWOOD, DIRTY DEEDS and Hillcoat's THE PROPOSITION (for which he also won an IF Award) and been nominated for a further five (DEAD LETTER OFFICE, TO HAVE AND TO HOLD, THAT EYE THE SKY, GINO, SAY A LITTLE PRAYER).

In 2005 he was awarded the coveted AFI Byron Kennedy Award, given each year to someone whose "work is marked by a relentless pursuit of excellence."

Kennedy's passion for filmmaking and visual design took root at Swinburne College, Melbourne, where he graduated from the Film and Television course in 1982. He subsequently art directed films, music videos, commercials and short films.

Production Designer- Job Description

The PD is engaged when the scale of, or the approach to, the production requires special coordination between several departments. The PD's duties include: (a) generating set design sketches and renderings, location selections and treatments; and design concepts relating to the set decoration, properties, special effects, lighting, costuming, make-up and hair; (b) collaborating with the Producer, Director and DOP to realize these elements on film; (c) working with the Director and DOP to determine key shots; (d) establishing production budgets and schedules in conjunction with the Producer and Director; (working the the Art Director and the applicable departments to achieve the style of a motion picture production.