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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34 • LMGI COMPASS | Winter 2022 The LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD was presented to Canadian location professional AINE FUREY/LMGI, whose career began well before cellphones and Google Earth. "You headed out in your car: camera, notebook, pen and loads of quarters in hand for public pay phones!" she recalled. Four decades after "winging it" on the independent movie Prom Night, Aine has racked up credits on features, MOWs and episodic television, including Canadian Bacon, Relic Hunter, Lost Girl, Mutant X, The Littlest Hobo, Night Heat and Due South. She is considered a pioneer in the profession and is celebrated as a mentor and as passionate booster for the city of Toronto and the province of Ontario as destinations for lm and television production. She learned on the job, through trial and error, honing her craft and developing long-lasting relationships. "You developed your skills: breaking down the script, meeting with directors and production designers to determine their 'vision' ... to determine the 'look' and background for each character. This was fascinating to me and I soaked it up like a sponge… You became a problem solver on the road, the face of production the public saw—and you found the required locations." "Still, nding the right location is step one in a long process that isn't over till the shoot is nished," said actor and director Art Hindle in his introduction. "And Aine has never walked into any location, big or small, where she wasn't welcomed back with open arms." Award-winning executive producer, writer, director and showrunner Jeff King met Aine when he was just starting out as a PA. "Aine became my mentor as a location manager as she has done with so many over her distinguished career. Crews loved and respected how Aine did her job, and I bene ted from seeing why and how." "I found a niche that gave me a career that I loved and afforded me personal travels to many countries, always with architecture in mind and locations in my thoughts," said Aine. "The profession has gotten better, faster, more ef cient, with bigger crews, video villages and some long-overdue recognition for location managers and scouts who are now considered part of a creative team thanks to the tireless efforts of the LMGI." THE TRAILBLAZER AWARD for 2021 was bestowed to another veteran location professional, PATRICIA FAY. When she became an early member of Teamsters Local 399 in the 1970s, she was one of a very few women working as a location scout and manager. "I didn't enter this profession with the idea of bringing about radical change," she said. "I just wanted to work! And I was too busy to realize that location managers always seemed to be men. How nice that today that sounds so ridiculous! My teamster brothers were supportive and friendly and made it easier to deal with all those who felt a woman didn't belong in my job. I didn't have a master plan, one job led to another and I'm very grateful to the wonderful people who believed in me." MIKE FANTASIA/LMGI AINE FUREY/LMGI, LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD RECIPIENT PRESENTER JEFF KING PRESENTER ART HINDLE