BIO

JACINTA LEONG, PRODUCTION DESIGNER

A film’s Production Design moves its audience visually through a story; Jacinta enjoys this process of collaboration and creativity.

She was AACTA Award-nominated in 2021 as Production Designer on the feature film 2067; and recently enjoyed the outback experience in Broken Hill Designing the feature Buckley’s Chance.

Art Director credits include Shang Chi, Alien: Covenant, Pirates of the Caribbean 5, Unbroken, and Mad Max: Fury Road.

Her Art Direction has won 3 ADG Awards (Moulin Rouge!, The Great Gatsby, Mad Max: Fury Road), and earned 6 ADG nominations.

In the 90’s, she graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from Queensland University of Technology, with the goal to design film sets. Her final year thesis titled Set Design for Film and Television earned a High Distinction. After graduating, she contacted Production Designer Henry Bumstead, asking for work experience on his next film. Her wish granted, she worked in Texas USA as intern on The Stars Fell on Henrietta.

Jacinta is an accredited Production Designer with the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts, and is accredited with the Australian Production Design Guild.