Pernell Marsden Production Designer
About:
Pernell is an emerging production designer who has worked in the film industry in Australia and the UK since 2012. She began her film career in the assistant directing and production departments, where she worked on productions for Disney and the BBC. Since then, she has worked across various roles within the art department on productions including Shantaram, Metropolis and ABC's The Newsreader.
In 2019, she graduated with a Master of Production Design for Screen at The Victorian College of the Arts and in 2021 she participated in the VicScreen professional attachment program, shadowing production designer Chris Kennedy. In 2023, Pernell earned her first production design credit for a feature film on the upcoming Strange Creatures and received the award for Best Emerging Designer for a Screen Production at the Australian Production Design Guild awards for her work on the film 'Small'.