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LMGI COMPASS
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Winter 2023
Paul Messana/LMGI
Paul first became interested
in location scouting while he
was an undergrad at Pitzer
College. Upon graduation, Paul
returned to his hometown
to work under Joan Aguado
at the South Pasadena
Film Office. Through that
position, he was introduced to
location managers and more
opportunities in the field. He
has since worked on shows,
including
Modern Family,
All Rise,
This Is Us, and The
Rookie.
Paul currently works as
a KALM in Los Angeles.
Rachel Llewellyn
Rachel Llewellyn is a media
journalist, editor and corporate
writer from Bakersfield,
California—home of Jack
Nicholson's freeway piano
performance in
Five Easy
Pieces
and near the site of the
iconic plane chase in
North by
Northwest.
She's written about
arts and culture since college,
when she got hooked on movie
production after visiting a
Tremors exhibit at the Museum
of Western Film History. She's
written for
Girlfriends and
Curve magazines, worked
as a news producer, and is
currently ghost-editing novels,
copywriting for C-suiters, and
contributing to
Book & Film
Globe.
Jared Cowan
Jared Cowan is based in L.A.
and has been fascinated by
cinema and filming locations
since he was a kid. He loves
locations so much that he
proposed to his wife on the
world famous steps of the
Philadelphia Museum of Art
featured in
Rocky. Jared is a
journalist and photographer
who has written extensively
on the subject of L.A. filming
locations for publications,
including
Los Angeles
Magazine,
L.A. TACO and LA
Weekly.
He is the co-founder
of My Valley Pass, through
which he programs location-
based film screenings and
leads film tours of the San
Fernando Valley, Pasadena
and the historic Langham
Huntington Hotel in Pasadena.
His podcast,
On Location
with Jared Cowan,
features
interviews with filmmakers
recorded on-site at the
locations from their movies;
it can be found on Apple
Podcasts and SoundCloud.
CONTRIBUTORS
Tonya Hartz/LMGI
Tonya can be found in her
happy place as a location
scout in Vancouver, BC. She is
grateful for her large capacity
for suffering and a career with
a solid foundation in chaos.
She never stops telling people
how much she loves her job as
it is one of the better decisions
she made in the '90s. Her
previous jobs as a self-taught
lawyer, DGC instructor, surf
camp owner, a fledgling AD,
a newspaper photographer,
tree planter, commercial
fishing gear seller and VHS
rewinder, have all contributed
to her unique skill set. While
not on the clock. Tonya can be
found having strong opinions,
doing her best as an unnatural
mother and paddleboarding.