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25: Denise Strong - Veteran Assistant Director, First A.D., Producer
Denise grew up in Texas and graduated from Texas State University with a bachelor in Fine Arts and Theatre Arts with an emphasis in Directing. After working her way up in the film industry as an intern, PA, location assistant, and second assistant director, she became a member of the Director's Guild of America (https://www.dga.org/) in 1993 in the category of Assistant Director. Since then she's moved from Second Second AD to Key Second AD, and on to First AD where she currently works on commercials and feature films.
During her career, Denise has worked on known projects such as Dumb and Dumber (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109686/), The Bucket List, Switchback, The Laramie Project, and Things to Do In Denver When You're Dead.
16 Mar 2020
24: Todd Debreceni - Master Makeup Special Effects Artist, Prosthetics Designer
Todd is a working makeup effects artist and designer. He began his career in entertainment with PBS (https://www.pbs.org/) while a graduate student in Television Production at the University of Tennessee (https://www.utk.edu/). Before starting his own small effects shop (BaPoFX) in Denver, Colorado, Todd worked as a production manager, writer, and producer for cable pioneer Ted Turner at TBS (http://www.tbs.com/) in Atlanta. He was also a writer/producer with 20th Century Fox Television (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_Century_Fox_Television) in Los Angeles, and a visual effects animator for Warner Brothers, Walt Disney Pictures (http://movies.disney.com/), and Walt Disney Television Animation. Among his feature film credits are Die Hard 2 (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099423/), Contact, Batman and Robin, Incoming Freshman, Cannon Fodder, The Enemy God, Decay, Apartment 212 (Gnaw), Hoax, and Ink, just to name a very few. Todd has sculpted and molded wounds used in the 2013 Tom Hanks film, Captain Phillips (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1535109/). Some of his television credits include Jag, and an uncredited contribution to one of his favorite TV programs, Dr. Who.
3 Mar 2020
23: Oksana Starling - Production Makeup Artist, Personal Stylist, Makeover Expert
Oksana is a 15-year veteran of film, TV and the fashion industry, and also the founder of Oksana Starling Beauty. As an established makeup artist, she has worked with major networks like Food Network, Bravo, NBC, CNN, and VH1. She has also shot commercials for Microsoft, KIA, Duke's, DISH Network, and Frontier Airlines. Her client list includes Andre Agassi, Phil Collins and Genesis, Von Miller, Clinton Kelly, and Zac Brown, just to name a few. She was a makeup department head in the film Social Dilemma, which has been one of the most talked-about documentaries at Sundance this year.
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