About Tre Luna Design
Tre Luna Design Inc. was established by Thomas and Merrily Walsh to produce documentaries, single and episodic narratives, museum exhibitions, and publications focused on motion picture history, narrative storytelling, and educational projects.
Although the company is relatively new, its members have a substantial portfolio as freelance designers. Their professional backgrounds encompass Art Direction and Costume Design for motion pictures, documentaries, opera, theater, and dance. Collectively, they have participated in eighty years of commercially produced film and live theatrical productions.
Upcoming projects include a Cedric Gibbons exhibition and documentary, as well as a film on Fred Gabourie's art direction for Buster Keaton.
Tre Luna Design Team
Thomas A. Walsh
Director / Producer
Researcher
Thomas is an Emmy Award-winning designer and filmmaker. His career spans features, episodic TV, IMAX, documentaries, and Broadway productions.
A founder of the Art Directors Guild Archives and the Harold and Lillian Michelson Cinematic Research Library and Archives. Publications include Designs on Film: Hollywood Art Direction (Harper Collins) and Art of the Hollywood Backdrop (Regan Arts).
Thomas is a past professor and Honorary Fellow at the University of Nottingham. His current works in progress are Ben Carré: A Parisian in Hollywood, Cedric Gibbons: The Mercury of Art Deco, and an exhibition, The Art of the Hollywood Backdrop.
Merrily Murray-Walsh
Co-Producer / Designer Educator
Merrily is a founding partner of Tre Luna Design. She earned her degree on American Civilization from Mills College, followed by an MFA degree in costume design from Carnegie-Mellon University.
She has an extensive career working in film, television, IMAX, documentaries, opera, theater, and dance, both nationally and internationally.
Film and TV credits include The Glass Menagerie, The Murder of Mary Phagan (CBS), Kingfish: A Story of Huey P, Long,(TNT) and In Search of Dr.Seuss (TNT) MerrilyMurray-Walsh.com ›
Mark Morris
Co-Producer Cinematographer
Ben & Anne Carré Family Trustee
Mark's background in the film business began with his first mentor who was his next-door neighbor Ben Carré. Ben encouraged Mark to pursue photography.
He went on to earn an MA degree in Film & TV Production at Loyola-Marymount University; to launch a Hollywood production company where he wrote and produced his first feature film at age 24, the lndie Thriller "Deadly Alliance," as well as l00's of hours of broadcast, cable, and commercial television.
Mark is an award-winning cinematographer of two-dozen feature films and docudramas, and co-producer of three one-hour documentaries (Culver City, The Reel Hollywood; A Man Who Fell from the Sky; Web of Secrecy, YF-23).
Catherine A. Surowiec
Researcher / Editor
Catherine is an Independent film and design historian, researcher, and editor. Early career, film archive, The Museum of Modern Art, New York; in Britain since 1985.
Extensive freelance work, British Film Institute, Museum of the Moving Image, FIAF/International Federation of Film Archives, Victoria & Albert Museum, George Eastman Museum.
Author, Accent on Design: Four European Art Directors (1992); entries on designers for The Encyclopedia of British Film and Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Cataloguing and documenting BFI’s designs collection.
Editing/contributions, numerous publications, including Rediscovering French Film (1983); This Film Is Dangerous (2002), Ealing Revisited (2012), The Dawn of Technicolor (2015). Editor, catalogue, Giornate del Cinema Muto (Pordenone silent film festival), Italy, since 2000.
Daniel Raim
Executive Producer Consultant / Director, Writer, Editor, Producer
Daniel is an Academy Award-nominated filmmaker. Daniel is known for his award-winning documentaries about cinema artists, including The Man on Lincoln’s Nose, nominated for the 2001 Academy Award® for Best Documentary Short Subject.
Raim’s 2015 documentary Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story premiered as an Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival. It was acquired for distribution by TCM, Zeitgeist Films, Kino Lorber, Arte, and Netflix. Daniel has produced and directed 30 documentaries about cinema masters for the Criterion Collection and the Criterion Channel. In 2019,
Raim directed the TCM Original Documentary Image Makers: The Adventures of America’s Pioneer Cinematographers in 2022.
Cindy Peters-Murphy
Film Editor
Cindy is an Emmy nominated producer, member of the Producer’s Guild, and has been creating content for major networks and brands for over 20 years.
Cindy has been creating and editing content with Thomas for The Art Director’s Guild since 2010. She is currently working with Thomas and Tre Luna Design on Ben Carré: A Parisian in Hollywood, Cedric Gibbons: The Mercury of Art Deco, and The Art of the Hollywood Backdrop exhibition subject videos and promotion reels.
Daniel Sosin
Composer
Donald is one of the world’s foremost silent film musicians. He has performed at film festivals worldwide including New York, Telluride, San Francisco, Seattle, Houston, TriBeCa, Denver, Atlanta and Miami.
Other venues include MoMA, BAM, Lincoln Center Film Festival, the Whitney Museum, and Guggenheim Museum, MFA Boston, the Berlin Filmmuseum, and Moscow’s prestigious Lumière Gallery.
He is a frequent guest artist at the National Gallery, AFI Silver, and Italy’s annual silent film retrospectives in Pordenone and Bologna. He has created scores for over 65 silent film DVDs for the Criterion, Kino Lorber, Milestone, Flicker Al, and European labels. OldMovieMusic.com ›