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LMGI COMPASS
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Winter 2020
FOCUS 2019—The Meeting Place
for International Production
broke all of its attendance
records and the Guild was
front and center. LMGI Board
member Georgette Turner
spearheaded the event, staffi ng
the booth with a dedicated
group: Tom Howard, Mick
Ratman, James Davey, Tom
Davey, Jessica Wright, and
Aliya Parvez. Board members
John Rakich and Lori Balton
joined Turner and LMGI
members Harriet Lawrence,
Ben Ahmed and Markus
Bensch on a number of SRO
panels, including the LMGI
panel "A Tale of Four Cities,"
"Perception: The Politics of
Locations," "Scaling Up: The
Impact of a Streamer in Your
Local Territory," and the Bectu
panel "Meet the Supervising
Location Managers." Lawrence
additionally held a masterclass
with the designer (BIFA
winner) Cristina Casali, on
The Personal History of David
Copperfi eld, as well as a short
presentation about the need to
train the next generation and
the re-boot of her assistant
location managers training
course, sponsored by the UK
Location Collective.
The LMGI booth had a
consistent crowd throughout
both days of the show, with a
good number of new member
and business partners excited
about joining. Members Trish
Gray (New York), Jonas Spokas
LMGI
Sharpens
Our Focus
(Lithuania), Kristofer Piir
(Estonia), and many of our UK
members packed the meet-
and-greet social. Many fi lm
commissions are planning
famtrips with us—in countries
new to incentives, we hope to
work out some educational
seminars as well.
It was great to meet so many
of our business partners
here, including The Malta
Film Commission, Film Fixer,
Ready to Shoot (Portugal),
Panorama Films (Italy),
the Valencia Tourism, the
Polish Film Institute, Central
Athens (Greece), the Western
Norway Film Commission,
the Production Service
Network, Babieka (Spain),
Panda Films (Turkey), Family
Film (Romania), Film In
Iceland, Finnish Lapland Film
Commission, the Trinidad and
Tobago Film Commission, and
the Good Film Company.
Kudos and endless gratitude to
our partners at The Location
Guide for making this dream
a reality. It was a testament
to our solidarity, growth and
bringing attention to the fact
that we are truly ambassadors
to the world, celebrating
excellence on location!
L-R: The LMGI panel, "A Tale of Four Cities ... Filming in Toronto, London, Berlin and Los Angeles" with John
Rakich, Georgette Turner, Markus Bensch, and Lori Balton moderated by LMGI member and veteran UK loca-
tion pro Harriet Lawrence
L-R: Panda Films' Suat Saglam and Chad Ozturk join hardworking LMGI members Jessica Wright and Mick Ratman ... promoting excellence on location
worldwide; the crowd at FOCUS 2019.
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