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LMGI COMPASS
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Spring 2022
CONTRIBUTORS
Diane Friedman/LMGI
Diane grew up in New York and, with a
background in art and photography,
began her career in San Francisco
working in cable and broadcast
television. As a Los Angeles-based 399
location manager and scout for almost
30 years, she is proud to be a founding
Board member of the Guild. For the
past several years, she has been the
co-chair of the LMGI Awards
Committee for Television and is a co-
editor on the
Compass magazine. She
treasures all the friendships and
working relationships she has had over
the years and values every opportunity
to promote the work we do.
Shaun O'Banion
Shaun O'Banion is a Gotham
Award-winning producer
currently living and working in
Prague, Czech Republic. He has
written articles for
MovieMaker
Magazine, Filmmaker Magazine,
and is a regular contributor on
Stage32.com
Paul Messana/LMGI
Paul fi rst became interested in
location scouting while he was
an undergrad at Pitzer College.
Upon graduation, Paul worked
under Joan Aguado at the South
Pasadena Film Offi ce of his
hometown and through that
position, he was introduced to
location managers and more
opportunities in the fi eld. He
has since worked as an ALM on
Modern Family, All Rise and The
Kenan Show,
and now currently
works as a KALM on NBC's
This
Is Us.
FOR THE RECORD
In our Winter 2022 issue, "The 8th Annual LMGI Awards 2021:
Celebrate the Where," the
LMGI Compass said of LMGI Trailblazer
honoree 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."
The Teamsters offi cially began accepting location professionals in
1980 and Ms. Fay offi cially joined the union in 1984. Other talented
female colleagues active around that time include Karlene Gallegly,
Lynn Kuwahara, Robin Citrin/LMGI, Beth Tate/LMGI, Andree Juviler,
Janice Polley, Debbie Laub, Kristin Dewey/LMGI, Laura Sode-
Mattesen/LMGI, Diane Ketchum-Friedgen, Kristi Frankenheimer,
Kris Wagner, Antoinette Levine, Laura Brown, Diane Friedman/LMGI,
Veronique Vowell/LMGI, Nancy Lazarus/LMGI, Jean Henley, Delia
Circelli, Fran Moss and Patricia Bentley.
If you believe that we have made an error, you may contact us at
Compass@LocationManagers.org
Jen Farris/LMGI
Atlanta-based ALM/scout
and a member of the LMGI
Board of Directors, hails from
a 19- year career in the music
and entertainment business.
Aside from traveling the world,
she holds dear to her heart a
vision to create educational and
conscious arts & entertainment
content that will manifest
positive social change.
Joe Jackson
Joe Jackson is a London-based
writer and editor. He works
across The Location Guide's
brands, and still cannot quite
believe he gets to write about
fi lm and television for a living.
He recently completed a
PhD in fi lm studies, and is
in the process of turning his
research project—titled 'Kahlil
Joseph, New Media and the
Audiovisual Atlantic: Music and
Moving Images Between Africa,
America and Europe'—into a
book. He is always looking for
an interesting story about the
audiovisual industries, so please
feel free to reach out at joe.
jackson@thelocationguide.com.
For more information about
Joe's work, check out: www.
josephowenjackson.com.
