INBAL WEINBERG - Production Designer

Team Deakins

James Ellis Deakins

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4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2024

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Production designer Inbal Weinberg (THE LOST DAUGHTER; SUSPIRIA; THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI) joins us on this episode of the Team Deakins Podcast. Despite her early love for European social realist films, Inbal embarked on the immigrant dream of making it in New York City and studied film at NYU before being asked by director Hal Hartley (her favourite filmmaker at the time) to design THE GIRL FROM MONDAY. Inbal reflects on working in America as a foreigner and how that perspective influences her design choices, and we discuss handling the Mediterranean personality infrequently encountered in American productions. She later speaks of the art department as the hub through which the vision of the film is communicated to other departments and the importance of maintaining open lines of communication throughout production. Inbal also shares how she and other production designers are fighting to stay involved in the evolving design process in the face of the proliferation of VFX across all departments. Topics also include: using time in prep to learn how to work with a director, the revolving door of information we accrue and abandon when transitioning between projects, and Inbal’s favourite episode of the podcast.

This episode is sponsored by Aputure

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to season two of the Team Deacons podcast, a collection of
0:08.8	informal conversations between Roger and James Deacons and a guest. We never know where the conversation
0:15.6	will take us so listen in and see where it goes. This episode is sponsored by Aperture, a company with a global footprint spanning four continents.
0:28.0	Aperture is a driving force in LED cinema technology, renowned for their cutting edge lighting and
0:35.1	software solutions.
0:37.0	focused on enabling filmmakers to achieve their creative vision,
0:41.0	they've built a lighting ecosystem of over 20 different fixtures that can
0:45.8	be controlled wirelessly through their software platform, CITES Link. Today we're speaking with the production link.
0:56.0	Today we're speaking with a production designer. Her credits include God's Creatures, The Lost Daughter,
1:00.0	and three billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri.
1:03.1	We're pleased to welcome, Invol Weinberg.
1:05.7	Thank you, Invol for doing this.
1:07.4	Thank you so much for having me.
1:08.9	It's an honor.
1:10.0	We'd like to start with our first question, as always.
1:13.7	How did you get to where you are today?
1:15.3	Is this something that you always thought?
1:17.0	Were you rearranging furniture when you were five?
1:20.3	Or did you find this later?
1:21.7	Did you take another path?
1:23.0	What's your story?
1:25.0	I was always interested in fine arts
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