MARK HOFELING DESIGN
Production Design for Film & Television
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Return to the Secret Garden

Feature Films for Families (2000) / Director: Scott Featherstone

Return to the Secret Garden is a small family movie that is meant as a continuation of the classic story. The script called for finding the garden dead and long-neglected. Here is a view of the crumbling Greek-style gazebo build, some of the neglect

Return to the Secret Garden is a small family movie that is meant as a continuation of the classic story. The script called for finding the garden dead and long-neglected. Here is a view of the crumbling Greek-style gazebo build, some of the neglected formal beds, and the heavy gothic doors we built into the courtyard of an abandoned old flour mill.

Here is a shot of the practical, formal English pond gone to ruin.

Here is a shot of the practical, formal English pond gone to ruin.

A detail of the crumbling gazebo.

A detail of the crumbling gazebo.

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Return to the Secret Garden is a small family movie that is meant as a continuation of the classic story. The script called for finding the garden dead and long-neglected. Here is a view of the crumbling Greek-style gazebo build, some of the neglect
Here is a shot of the practical, formal English pond gone to ruin.
A detail of the crumbling gazebo.