2018 Emmy Winner. Emmy Nominated for set design in 2016 and 2019. Deana took a break from film for a few years to start writing Lost Past Remembered. Here she writes about history — exploring food, design, houses/castles and interesting characters of the past — from ancient Babylon to 1990. She spent many summers in England during the break — digging into ancient families and their stately homes (with some generous help from The National Trust)! The blog has had nearly 3 million visitors. She found it incredibly liberating and realized she loved historical projects, deciding to concentrate on them when she returned to film. She has a fine grasp of multiple visual threads of history with their antiques and ephemera and has a passion for absorbing the minutiae of life in the past. It is another dimension to good storytelling. Whether it means knowing the right place-setting for 1860 New York or the recipe for the mud for mud wrestling – attention to detail is a priority for Deana and her team. Knowing what to bring to best evoke the time is her talent (helpful when there are budget constraints).