Production Designer
Adriana Donca is a production designer and producer whose work bridges architecture and cinematic storytelling. Based in Los Angeles, she studied Architecture at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and holds a Master of Science in Fiction and Entertainment from SCI-Arc (Southern California Institute of Architecture).
Design Software
Adobe Suite (After Effects, Audition, Bridge, Illustrator, InDesign, Lightroom, Photoshop, Premiere, Substance Painter), AutoCAD, Blender, Cinema 4D, Gemini AI, Google Suite, Grasshopper, Maya, Microsoft Teams, Midjourney AI, Miro, Rhino, SketchUp, Unreal Engine, V-Ray, Zbrush, Zoom
Theater & Set Design
Acting in theater from 2019 in Greece
Designed sets for theater acting group "Apostates" in Greece — 2023
May 2026
Production Designer — Short Film "Trespass"
Director: Laura Alvarez · Los Angeles, CA
April 2026
Art Director — Short Film "House"
Directors: Luis Garcia, Geffen Shichor · Los Angeles, CA
April 2026
Art Director — Short Film "Lady Macbeth"
Directors: Luis Garcia, Geffen Shichor · Los Angeles, CA
November 2025
Production Assistant — Music Video "Getting Paid"
Artists: Asake, Wizkid, Skillibeng / Production Designer: Yara Kamali · Los Angeles, CA
October 2025
Production Assistant — Short Film "Potency"
Production Designer: Matilda Washington, Art Director: Nandar Thu · Los Angeles, CA
2025 – 2026
Freelance Spatial & Interior Designer
Thessaloniki, GR
2023 – 2024
Architect Engineer — Moraitidis Metal Industry
Thessaloniki, GR
Aug – Oct 2021
Architectural Intern — Urban Soul
Thessaloniki, GR
Jul – Aug 2020
Architectural Intern — Uber Hause
Bucharest, RO
2025 – 2026
Master of Science, Fiction and Entertainment
Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc)
Los Angeles, CA
2017 – 2023
Architecture — Graduated with Distinction
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki, GR
Spring 2022
Student Exchange Program (6 months)
Bezalel School of Architecture
Jerusalem, IS
2026
Art Directors Guild (ADG) Initiative
Selected for the ADG Initiative, a competitive mentorship program for emerging production designers.
2025
SCI-Arc Scholarship for Studies
Postgraduate program Fiction & Entertainment
2023
Siena Art Institute Scholarship
Scholarship award for studies and housing at Siena Arts Institute, Italy, Fall 2023
Production Designer
DirectorLaura Alvarez
Director of PhotographyGeffen Shichor
Production DesignerAdriana Donca
Art DirectorJack Freedman
A grieving woman living in a decaying apartment building becomes obsessed with her neighbor. As she secretly watches the life unfolding through the cracks in the wall, her longing for connection spirals into a dangerous fixation with horrifying consequences.
Film Stills
Set Photography
Process
Credits
DirectorJack Freedman
Director of PhotographyGeffen Shichor
Assistant DirectorLaura Alvarez
Production DesignerAdriana Donca
The Dance of the Seven Veils is a short film that combines live-action performance with digitally created environments. Inspired by Oscar Wilde's play, it reimagines Salome's ritual dance as a journey of transformation and decay. The film begins inside a grand palace that is slowly collapsing. As Salome dances, her veils become wet and cling to her body, turning from symbols of beauty into instruments of suffocation. At the same time, a dark desert hidden beneath the palace is gradually revealed, while the architecture around her starts to disappear. As the space dissolves, Salome begins to sink inside desert sand. Her body slowly vanishes piece by piece until only her head remains. Through the collapse of both body and architecture, the film explores themes of desire, mortality, and the loss of identity.
Final Stills
Digital Fabrication
Concept Art
DirectorZoe Chen
Director of PhotographyAndrew Kim
Production DesignerAdriana Donca
GafferTodd Lai
Production AssistantGeng Chen
A 30-second spec campaign for Gentle Monster that reimagines sunglasses as a Michelin-starred dining experience. Blending on-set production with VFX, the film transforms the backstage rituals of fine dining into a meticulous service performance, where each pair of sunglasses is prepared with clinical precision and presented like the evening's signature course.
Final Stills
Process
DirectorsLuis Garcia Grech, Laura Alvarez
Production DesignerEron Kumar
Art DirectorAdriana Donca
The film explores noise cancellation as both a sonic and visual experience. Inside a chaotic office, one character remains calm, protected by his earphones. Through one continuous pull-out shot, an intimate composition gradually reveals the disorder surrounding him. Lighting becomes a visual expression of noise cancellation: a warm, dramatic glow creates his private world, while removing the earphones returns him to the flat fluorescent reality of the office. The visual language draws from Caravaggio's tenebrism, Georges de La Tour's candlelit intimacy, and Gregory Crewdson's staged photography, contrasting the chaos of everyday life with a temporary, personal space of calm.
Final Stills
Set Photography
Process
DirectorGeffen Shichor
Production DesignerLuis Garcia
Art DirectorAdriana Donca
Set DresserEron Kumar
In a surreal, movement-driven descent into Lady Macbeth's fractured psyche, three spectral figures; echoes of the witches, invade her dreamscape, forcing a haunting reckoning with her guilt that drives her toward madness and an inevitable death.
Stills
Process
DirectorsLuis Garcia, Geffen Shichor
Production DesignerLuis Garcia
Set DresserAdriana Donca
Set within a single house across three eras (the 1940s, late 1970s, and the 2020s), the film traces how domestic rituals reflect changing relationships to faith, identity, and intimacy. Observed through mirrors, doorways, and architectural thresholds, the walls of the house serve as objective spectators. Vignettes displaying repeated gestures across generations reveal the gradual loosening of religious authority, the diversion from gender norms, and the reconfiguration of private life as cultural values shift. As the inhabitants change, the house remains, preserving the imprint of each era's values, tensions, and quiet transformations.
Stills
Process
DesignerAdriana Donca
Drafting
3D Modelling
Renderings
DirectorLaura Alvarez
Director of PhotographyGeffen Shichor
Concept ArtAdriana Donca
Stills
Concept Art
References / 3D Modelling
Production Designer
Projects