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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LMGI COMPASS | Fall 2019 • 33 ➊ Nominee Tim Stacker/LMGI (BlacKkKlansman) & Jasmine Hockaday. ➋ Christian McWilliams/LMGI accepts the award for Outstanding Locations in a Contemporary Television Series for Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan. ➌ Film Commission nominees L-R: Nate Adams & Cassandra Hesseltine of the Humboldt Del Norte Film Commission; KJ Jennings/Film Otago Southland, New Zealand; Rich Wall/Buffalo Niagara Film Offi ce. ➍ Claudia Puebla Monge & Horacio Rodriguez de Zamacona/LMGI, winners for Outstanding Locations in a Period Feature Film for Roma. ➎ Nominee (Mayans MC) Dan Cooley/LMGI & his daughter Clementine. ➏ Diane Friedman/LMGI & Leah Sokolowsky/LMGI, nominees for Versace. ➐ Production designer Nelson Coates representing nominee CRA. ➑ Commercial nominees Jovan Todorovic, Marija Markovic & Bogdan Petkovic (Organic Food for All) Iconic director Peter Weir is the recipient of the 2019 LMGI Eva Monley Award. Monley was the go-to scout and logistics wrangler in remote locations for John Huston, David Lean and Otto Preminger. Immensely curious, capable and self-reliant, she thrived in a peripatetic fi lm career spanning fi ve decades, including cinematic legends such as Lawrence of Arabia, Exodus, The African Queen and The Man Who Would Be King. Eva Monley would appreciate the weight Peter Weir ascribes to his fi lming locations. Weir sent us his acceptance on tape, shot by documentary fi lmmaker Anna Howard, assisted by Weir's Oscar-winning cinematographer Russell Boyd. Standing on the other side of the Pacifi c Ocean, he lamented not being able to join our celebration. "Thank you very much for the Eva Monley Award. It's an honor. And I think that it's no secret that I love locations—they can make your story better. So let me take this opportunity to thank all those who've worked with me over the years, fi nding those wonderful places. I was thinking even today about how creative your work is … I often will write more scenes exploiting a great location. That's when it really works, and that is the kind of collaboration I love! Thank you. EVA MONLEY AWARD: DIRECTOR PETER WEIR Holland Taylor presented the Eva Monley Award to director Peter Weir. Emmy-winning Holland Taylor (The Practice, Two and a Half Men, The Truman Show) elaborated on that thread, weaving her introduction of the LMGI Eva Monley Award recipient, iconic director Peter Weir. While Monley is synonymous with the quintessence of excellence in location professionals, Weir is likewise a visionary legend, whose evocative locations chart the course of his fi lms, from the perilous Master and Commander to the hypnotic Picnic at Hanging Rock, from the sultry Year of Living Dangerously to the bucolic Witness. Peter Weir would be the fi rst to tell you how much he relies on his location manager—one in particular. Mike Meehan, he got his break in feature fi lms as the location manager on Witness in 1985, launching what would be 6 7 8