Stronger Together! The Power of Partnership. As seasoned location professionals working in a highly collaborative industry, the LMGI appreciates that our partner businesses are vital to our success. ...
CALL FOR ENTRIES FROM AROUND THE GLOBE! Submissions now open for for the 6th Annual LMGI Awards to be held Sept. 21, 2019, Broad Theater, Santa Monica, CA...
Location Manager/Scouts John Hutchinson, LMGI and Les Fincher, LMGI have been friends and colleagues for many years. Between them, they have covered every inch of “the city that never sleeps!” ...
LMGI presented a panel discussion, "Location by Design," on January 25 at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival.
The panel featured location professionals Nancy Ha...
Everybody loves Jack Ryan. Since Tom Clancy introduced his CIA analyst-turned-action hero in his 1984 thriller The Hunt for Red October, film audiences have poured into theaters to watch different incarnations of Ryan. ...
It takes a village to pull off getting a rocket to the moon, even a fake one. Based on the book of the same title by James R. Hansen, First Man is the story of Neil Armstrong, the first man to step foot on the moon....
Co-editor Stevie Nelson is in a New York state of mind with John Hutchinson and Les Fincher. The two have been friends and colleagues for many years. Between them, they have covered every inch of the city that never sleeps!...
Winter 2019 Click on image to open digital issue
As we write, tucked between the American traditions of Thanksgiving and Christmas, gratitude and imaginatio...
by Nancy Mills
Just how frustrating is it to know that some locations you want are just sitting there waiting to be filmed, but budget considerations prevent y...
Gotham’s Supervising Location Manager Keith Adams and writer Shaun O’ Banion give us a closer look behind the scenes of the past four seasons of Fox’s popular n...
They’re young, smart and enthusiastic about what they do. In this new occasional column, assistant location manager PAUL MESSANA, a genXer himself, talks with t...
Someone had the brilliant idea of featuring a location scout in a national Chase Sapphire Reserve ad with comedian James Corden. Someone had an even more brilli...
Like many departments on a film set, the locations department has duties that are a mixture of artistic and practical, a blend of orchestrating creative epiphanies and managing tedious logistics. From Filmmaker, Spring, 2018...
When a new movie or major commercial comes to town, the first person they meet with is a location scout. Sometimes they call the Oklahoma Film + Music Office to line it up; sometimes they talk to a friend in New York or Los Angeles who recently has filmed here. ...
