Biography
Kalina Ivanov was born in Sofia, Bulgaria. In 1979, during the height of communism, she escaped with her parents and landed in New York. She graduated from NYU/TSOA Design Department with honors. Ivanov also has an MFA from NYU/TSOA Graduate Film School where she received a special award for her design and film work. Kalina's design philosophy is to immerse herself in the script, fully embody the characters and reveal their history through color, texture and architecture in a visually original ...
Complete Filmography

The Boys in the Boat
2023
Production Design
The triumphant underdog story of the University of Washington men's rowing team, who stunned the world by competing at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

The Tender Bar
2021
Production Design
JR is a fatherless boy growing up in the glow of a bar where the bartender, his Uncle Charlie, is the sharpest and most colorful of an assortment of q...

Long Shot
2019
Production Design
Journalist Fred Flarsky reunites with his childhood crush, Charlotte Field, now one of the most influential women in the world. As she prepares to mak...

Wonder
2017
Production Design
The story of August Pullman – a boy with facial differences – who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.

The Book of Henry
2017
Production Design
Susan, a single mother of two, works as a waitress in a small town. Her son, Henry, is an 11-year-old genius who not only manages the family finances ...

Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
2016
Production Design
A financial schemer finds himself in the middle of an international scandal after he becomes a political adviser to the new Prime Minister of Israel.

Max
2015
Production Design
A dog that helped soldiers in Afghanistan returns to the U.S. and is adopted by his handler's family after suffering a traumatic experience.

Poltergeist
2015
Production Design
A family's suburban home is invaded by angry spirits. When the terrifying apparitions escalate their attacks and take the youngest daughter, the famil...

Gods Behaving Badly
2013
Production Design
Greek gods living in modern-day New York intervene in the lives of a young couple.

The Vow
2012
Production Design
Happy young married couple Paige and Leo are, well, happy. Then a car accident puts Paige into a life-threatening coma. Upon awakening she has lost th...

The Conspirator
2011
Production Design
Mary Surratt is the lone female charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln. As the whole nation turns against her, she ...

Rabbit Hole
2010
Production Design
Life for a happy couple is turned upside down after their young son dies in an accident.

Grey Gardens
2009
Production Designer
Based on the life stories of the eccentric aunt and first cousin of Jackie Onassis raised as Park Avenue débutantes but who withdrew from New York soc...

My Sassy Girl
2008
Production Design
A guy has his life planned out until he is wooed, groomed and then dumped by an elusive woman.

Made of Honor
2008
Production Design
Tom and Hannah have been platonic friends for 10 years. He's a serial dater, while she wants marriage but hasn't found Mr. Right. Just as Tom is start...

The Brave One
2007
Storyboard Artist
A woman struggles to recover from a brutal attack by setting out on a mission for revenge.

Raving
2007
Production Design
In New York City, a young woman forms a curious bond with a lonely older man after they encounter one another on a street corner.

Chapter 27
2007
Production Design
A film about Mark David Chapman in the days leading up to the infamous murder of Beatle John Lennon.

Little Miss Sunshine
2006
Production Design
A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.

King's Ransom
2005
Production Design
Hoping to foil his own gold-digging wife's plan, a loathsome businessman arranges his own kidnapping, only to realize that there are plenty of other p...

The Manchurian Candidate
2004
Storyboard
Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow s...

Uptown Girls
2003
Production Design
Molly Gunn, the freewheeling daughter of a deceased rock legend, is forced to get a job when her manager steals her money. As nanny for precocious Ray...

Brown Sugar
2002
Production Design
Sidney and Dre can attribute their lifelong friendship and the launch of their careers to one single childhood instant... witnessing the birth of hip-...

Swimfan
2002
Production Design
Ben Cronin has it all: the admiration of his many friends, a terrific girlfriend, and he's on the fast-track to an athletic scholarship. Ben's rock-so...

Monday Night Mayhem
2002
Production Designer
The early years of a television sports powerhouse are chronicled as ABC becomes a player in the NFL coverage by putting their full resources into a ma...

Maze
2001
Production Design
Artist Lyle Maze is reconciled to a life without romance thanks to his dual afflictions: Tourette's Syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder. But hi...

Disappearing Acts
2000
Production Design
A struggling construction worker and an aspiring musician find themselves falling in love.

The Big Kahuna
1999
Production Design
Three salesmen working for a firm that makes industrial lubricants are waiting in the company's "hospitality suite" at a manufacturers' convention for...

The Best Man
1999
Production Design
After writing a soon-to-be bestselling novel, writer and committed bachelor Harper attempts to hide the fact that his saucy new book is loosely based ...

Lulu on the Bridge
1998
Production Design
This film is about a famous jazz saxophonist, Izzy, whose life is forever changed after he is accidentally shot.

Animals with the Tollkeeper
1998
Production Design
While looking for paradise, a cab driver suddenly falls in love.

Subway Stories
1997
Storyboard Artist
An anthology of 10 stories depicting real-life incidents of subway riders in New York City, which range from compassion and love to violence and loss.

A Further Gesture
1997
Production Design
Dowd, an IRA prisoner in the H-blocks, is gloomily facing his sentence, until he joins a comrade in a risky escape. Dowd begins a new life in New York...

Blue in the Face
1995
Production Design
A wacky group of locals visit the neighborhood cigar shop, looking for good times and finding plenty of hilarious fun. But when the greedy owner threa...

Smoke
1995
Production Design
Writer Paul Benjamin is nearly hit by a bus when he leaves Auggie Wren's smoke shop. Stranger Rashid Cole saves his life, and soon middle-aged Paul t...

Naked in New York
1993
Production Design
Naked in New York begins in the car of grown up Jake, he is talking to us about his girlfriend, Joanne, and to whom you can turn to for help while fa...

Household Saints
1993
Production Design
A chronicle of three generations of Italian-American women struggling to get by in post-World War II New York’s Little Italy.

The Silence of the Lambs
1991
Storyboard Artist
Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatri...

Blind Double Date
1989
Art Direction
A blind date goes horribly wrong.

Pink
1988
Assistant Director
Full Tilt/Phoenix Films, 1988. Written, directed, and edited by Roz Sohnen. Starring Flynn Larsen, Renee Flemings, and Sharon Welsh.