Australia PodCast 3

In PodCast 3 of Set to Screen you will meet Catherine Martin, coproducer, production & costume designer. She has been lauded for her work on Moulin Rouge! with two Academy Awards® for Costume Design and Art Direction, Australian Film Institute (AFI) Awards for Best Production Design and Best Costume Design, a Los Angeles Film Critics Award for Best Production Design, and numerous other awards. 

Martin began collaborating with Luhrmann when she was studying at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in Sydney and has designed all of Luhrmann’s subsequent productions, including Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream for the Australian Opera for which she won the Sydney Theatre Critic's Award for Best Opera Design, and Luhrmann's reworking of Puccini's La Boheme in 2002, which opened on Broadway to critical acclaim and won Martin the coveted Tony Award for Production Design. 

Most recently Martin designed the look of the lavish No.5: The Film global campaign for Chanel starring Nicole Kidman, working with Karl Lagerfeld on costumes. She is currently working on the designs for a print-intensive range of homewares focusing on bed, bath, and tableware for worldwide distribution into mid-up market retailers. Martin is married to writer/producer/director Baz Luhrmann, with whom she has two children, Lillian and William.

Channel: iTunes Video Length: 5m 12s Date Found: Mon, Mar 01 2010 1:27 AM Category: Educational Date Produced: Thu, Feb 18 2010 10:55 PM View Count: 0