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name: "Lea Carlson"
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# Lea Carlson

Production designer.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2472853

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Stories We Tell*](https://film.one/film/stories-we-tell.md) (77)

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## Biography

Lea Carlson is a Canadian costume designer and production designer working primarily in independent film and television.

She served as production designer on Sarah Polley’s *Stories We Tell* (2012). Her other production design credits include *Pontypool* (2008), *This Movie Is Broken* (2010) and *Two Hands to Mouth* (2012). Carlson has also designed costumes for numerous features, among them *Last Night* (1998), *Take This Waltz* (2011), *Room* (2015) and *Kin* (2018).

She has received multiple Gemini Award and Canadian Screen Award nominations for her costume design work, and was the first film costume designer to receive the Virginia and Myrtle Cooper Award.

*Sources: metacritic.com, collection.nfb.ca, s3.amazonaws.com, en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Stories We Tell* (2012), Fi1m 77, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/stories-we-tell.md)

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