Mar 9, 2012
Artist Development
The San Francisco Film Society announces a new master class with Academy Award-nominated costume designer and author Deborah Nadoolman Landis, 1:00 pm, Friday, April 6 at San Francisco Film Centre in the Presidio. Landis will share her remembrances and anecdotes from 35 years of creating iconic costume designs and discuss her approach to visually mapping the story through her well-known creations that expose and magnify deeper truths. This class is part of SFFS’s Behind the Scenes series presented in partnership with Pacific Film Archive/Berkeley Art Museum with major support provided by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Deborah Nadoolman Landis is the Academy Award-nominated costume designer of Coming to America (1988). Her other costume design credits include Animal House (1978), The Blues Brothers (1980), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Three Amigos (1986) and Michael Jackson’s Thriller (1983). Her work is on display at the Smithsonian Institution, the Autry National Center and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Landis is the endowed David C. Copley Chair of Costume Design and the founding director of the David C. Copley Center for Costume at UCLA. Landis has a PhD in the history of design from the Royal College of Art. She lectures at the American Film Institute and the USC School of Cinematic Arts and is a professor at the University of the Arts London. Landis recently completed her second term as president of the Costume Designers Guild, Local 892, of which she has been a member for more than thirty years. She is the author of Screencraft: Costume Design (Focal Press 2003) and editor of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 50 Designers/50 Costumes: Concept to Character (University of California Press 2004). She lives with her husband, filmmaker John Landis, in Beverly Hills, California.
For more information visit sffs.org.
Prior Behind the Scenes speakers have been composer Mark Isham, animator John Musker, art director Patricia Woodbridge, special effects creator Phil Tippett and producer Sid Ganis.
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Tickets $25 for SFFS members, $35 general. Box office now open online at sffs.org.