Production designer Grant Montgomery came to Darlington to speak to students about his work on BAFTA nominated flick The Wonder and gangster family epic Peaky Blinders.
With more than 30 years experience in the industry Grant gave a fascinating insight into his work on movie sets and television series to Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College QE students hoping to carve out a career in film and media.
Grant, a designer and art director responsible for the visual concept and design styles on many major production spoke about his close working relationship with critically acclaimed Chilean director Sebastián Lelio on his recent project The Wonder (2022).
The Netflix movie, starring Florence Pugh, is set shortly after the Great Famine in rural Ireland and tells the story of an English nurse tasked with observing a fasting girl who appears to survive without eating food.
The Wonder has been nominated for Outstanding British Film in the 76th BAFTA Film Awards on Sunday FEB 19 and Grant was nominated for Best Production Design in the recent British Independent Film Awards.
Speaking to QE students about his role Grant explained: Production designers help tell the narrative through a threedimensional world.
I love creating these worlds it’s a form of storytelling. Really good design is often invisible but tells a story. You’re creating an arena for the performers.
When I was working on The Wonder I knew I had to do something authentic. The famine was a cataclysmic event in Irish history, when more than 1 million people died and another million had to leave so I needed to create the right arena for these characters to have really important dialogues about faith and science.
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