AMERICAN ODYSSEY
2015 · Director: Peter Horton
PD: Kristi Zea
Dune Film / HBO - Marrakech, Morocco
ART DIRECTOR ASSISTANT
The production ranged across Morocco's most remote locations — the pink granite valleys of Tafraout in the Anti-Atlas mountains, the coastal town of Tifnit, and the beaches of Agadir.
A US Special Forces soldier discovers proof that a corporation is funding terrorists and must survive alonein North Africa. An NBC Universal series shot entirely in Morocco across six to eight months.
Cast: AnnaFriel, Daniella Pineda, Jake Robinson.
✦ From the set: The art department was based above the Atlantic in Tifnit — a remote fishing village with no electricity. The office was a house on the ocean. Lunches with the sound of waves below. One of the most beautiful places any art department has ever worked from.
Sets included a shaman's house so authentic that locals warned it could attract negative spiritual energy, and a natural-looking rockpool built from scratch, invisible within the landscape.
