Location Managers Guild International

Spring 2019

The Location Managers Guild International (LMGI) is the largest organization of Location Managers and Location Scouts in the motion picture, television, commercial and print production industries. Their membership plays a vital role in the creativ

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Production designer Eugenio Caballero, who finally read the script two weeks aer shooting started, was enormously helpful to the location team. "I didn't know the film's story," he says, "but this was part of a game we decided to play with Alfonso. He said, 'I don't want to show you the script. I don't want to talk about sto- ries. I want to talk about the subjects we're trying to show. It's not about what happens with the actors and their characters. It's about what are we trying to tell in a social and political context. It's about the classes, about a family that breaks, about loneli- ness, about the condition of women in Mexico City at the time. There were a lot of things we tried to convey. I tried to pass all the information to Horacio. 'This is what I know. We need a street, and on this street we have to have a house and we'll talk about these subjects.' "I tried to translate that to a visual code. Although I had no script, I had a lot of time to talk to my director. That was the way we got the locations we wanted. It was a very interesting process. It was problematic for all of us, but because I had a director and crew I trusted, it was okay. From the very beginning, I trusted that Horacio would deliver." All photos courtesy of Netflix, except as noted.

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