Hannah Beachler

Hannah Beachler is one of the most electric production designers in Hollywood today, but she didn’t realize her calling until she was sweeping the floors of a low-budget Lifetime movie. After walking onto productions across New Orleans, her breakout film was "Fruitvale Station," followed by "Creed"--both alongside director Ryan Coogler. She went on to design the sets for the Oscar-winning "Moonlight" on a shoestring budget, and Beyoncé’s cultural phenomenon "Lemonade," before being catapulted to the mega Marvel franchise "Black Panther," a film in which the fictional African country of Wakanda was as much a character as any actor.

Beachler has since caught the bug of Afrofuturism, and hopes to build new worlds on the screen that tease humanity’s bright future, instead of re-creating its deplorable past.