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LMGI COMPASS
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Fall 2018
There is no denial that LMGI membership truly reflects a global
community of location professionals at the very top of their
professional game. Our ability to continually raise the bar of the
location profession comes from our strength in unity. As our
numbers increase, we compound that strength.
Welcome to our growing tribe, where there's a new sheriff in town
… two, in fact. We welcome the new LMGI Board of Directors,
spearheaded by our new President, supervising location manager
Mike Fantasia. Mike and strategist Linda Johannesen join the
Board in building the LMGI into a thriving international force that
will be an expanding resource for members everywhere. With
regional strategy sessions and educational events, we are already
reaping the benefits of having members from Vancouver, New
York, Toronto and Atlanta sitting on our Board. We welcome and
encourage your participation.
The connective tissue of this Compass issue lies within the power
of our expanding tribe—it is a celebration, as well as a direct result
of our far-flung membership. There is power in our unity … being
part of a greater community than our own backyards.
In this issue, "In the News" covers the exciting announcement of
six new AMPAS members from our ranks! That's a total of nine
LMGI location pros in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences! After shattering the AMPAS glass ceiling on behalf of
loc pros everywhere, the LMGI is now turning its attention to the
Television Academy. John Rakich reports on the LMGI's triumphant
return to Comic-Con for the sixth consecutive year.
Nancy Mills takes us to Berlin and Sweden in her profile of LM
Klaus Darrelmann for our cover story chronicling the making of
The Girl in the Spider's Web. Shaun O'Banion's "Shadow Hunters"
celebrates the Big Apple with a salute to the popular noir TV series
Gotham and the work of LM Keith Adams. Jim Collette gives us
an unprecedented behind-the-scenes look at the final "lost"
masterpiece of legendary director Orson Welles. The Other Side
of the Wind finally makes its debut 45 years after the cameras
wrapped in Carefree, Arizona.
Then journey to the Sooner State where member Alison Naifeh
gives us a personal tour of her beloved hometown for "In My City:
Oklahoma City." "LMGI: The Next Generation" profiles Australia-
based ALM Luke Ford. The illustrious, unsuspected career of LMGI
Award-winning LM Tom Howard is the subject of "Career Focus."
We'd love to hear from you. Please send your comments and
suggestions to compass@locationmanagers.org.
Always a pleasure, never too busy.
Ken Haber, Lori Balton and Stevie Nelson
FROM THE
EDITORS' DESK
" Excellence is a continuous
process and not an accident."
—A.P.J. ABDUL KALAM
" It is not in numbers but in unity
that our greatest strength lies."
—THOMAS PAINE
