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....
Once again, the Texas Film Commission wowed Hollywood with its annual Film Texas Brunch at Wolfgang Puck’s famed Spago Restaurant in Beverly Hills.
More than 2...
LMGA members were in full force at the 2014 California Location Conference that was sponsored by the CFC and FLICS. David Dumeng moderated the panel discussion...
London is my favorite city on the planet. Always changing, always the same. On this visit I’d arranged to catch a glimpse of some location film work....
