Known for her beautiful location photography, Commercial Scout Nancy Lazarus has the well earned reputation of being able to find the image that captures the mo...
Reprint from the California Film Commission:
DATE: September 29, 2014
Production Alert: Six Companies Allowed To Operate Small UAS (Drones) Following FAA-...
Before there was Flickr or ImageEvent there was MARINO PASCAL. Marino revolutionized the way Location Managers and Scouts present and archive their work. He de...
Award winning Director, Location Manager and LMGA Member Patrick Mignano’s film, "Absaroka Sins" will air on Wyoming PBS Friday, October 24th at 9:00PM....
When I was a boy the BBC used to air a Western every Saturday evening. My dad and I used to watch these together in our small provincial British town. I remember remarking to my Dad how cool it must be to work on a film in the extraordinary desert scenery featured in the movie. This somewhat random notion passed quickly. Little did I realize that 40 years later I would find myself getting paid to take photographs of that very scenery as I did last year on Transformers 4....
In this issue, we celebrate the alchemy of location work. Rebecca “Puck” Stair’s “Locosociology,” examines the cerebral nature of the scout. We are sociologists, archeologists, biologists: exploring culture, flora and fauna, architecture, history....
BUY TICKETS HERE! Get ready for our annual Legendary Bingo Fundraiser – a rowdy, crazy night of raucous debauchery and laughter all for the benefit of Habitat for Humanity and the LMGA!...
City Staffers and film industry reps gathered on Thursday Aug 28 to celebrate the retirement of Ariel Penn, the Film Commissioner for the City of Pasadena. She has held the highly regarded position for over 23 years and is now stepping down....
New LMGA Business Member, The Los Angeles Bee Guys, went right to work for their new partners on a commercial job shot the San Fernando Valley with Location Man...
This was my first trip to Portugal, and though the visit was short, my impressions of the country linger. After a 12-hour flight, our first connection brought us to the Madrid-Barajas Airport which featured awe-inspiring, cavernous light-filled spaces. If this was a sign of things to come, we were in for a great adventure! ...
LMGA Member Catou Kearney speaks about some of the challenges she faced finding locations for "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes", as the Times Colonist reports on the economic advantages that Hollywood brings to a region, and what we as location scouts look for in a location....
The LMGA's 2nd Annual "Hollywood Location Scouts" panel was held
at Comic-Con International in San Diego, California. Our panelists were:
Chris Baugh, Mandi Dillin, Ann Goobie, JJ Hook, Michael John Meehan, and
Scott Trimble.
It might be another week or so before the actual video of the panel is
online, but, in the meantime, here is the sizzle reel that opened our
presentation....
