Hannah Beachler

Hannah Beachler is an American film production designer. She worked on the 2015 Rocky film Creed, the Miles Davis biopic Miles Ahead, and most recently has become known for the movie Moonlight, Beyoncé's 2016 TV special & visual album Lemonade, and for her Afrofuturist design direction on the movie Black Panther. Beachler grew up in Centerville, Ohio, and graduated from the University of Cincinnati, studying fashion design. She attended Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio where she studied film. She first collaborated with director Ryan Coogler on 2013's Fruitvale Station; this led to Coogler contacting her to work as his production designer on Creed, and later to their working together on Black Panther. Fruitvale Station, covering the shooting of Oscar Grant, was filmed on a limited budget and required Beachler's creativity to come up with low-cost ideas; she used her own Bay Area Rapid Transit card that is seen in the visor of a car Grant is driving. Fruitvale Station won the G