Highwaymen: Production Design
✧ Film Synopsis
Driving through the Mojave Desert, Frankie and her daughters encounter unfriendly strangers. The girls’ fixation with Westerns and outlaw tales quickly spirals into real danger.
✧ Credits
Project: Narrative Short – Drama
Director: Lily Cunningham Perini
Producers: Mike Bloom & Lily Weisberg
Director of Photography: Katie Mlinek
PD: Meave Cunningham Perini
Status: Post-Production
✧ Overview
The production design grounded the film’s Western influences in a restrained, lived-in world—using vehicles, props, and environments to reflect both the characters’ interior lives and the escalating tension of the story.
The project included three picture cars, a dressed gas station exterior, and one dressed interior, along with a key roadside desert location. All props and set dressing were developed in-house, including a series of handmade taxidermy birds constructed from dried skins, wire armatures, clay, and glass eyes.
The film is currently in post-production. More stills coming soon.
