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LMGI COMPASS
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Spring 2023
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.
Les Fincher/LMGI
Les Fincher is an NYC Local 817
location scout and commercial
location manager. As a former
LMGI Board member, and with
a passion for the history and
architecture of New York City,
he is eager to promote the
LMGI in the New York area.
He first came to New York
City as a select student at the
invitation of
Life Magazine
cover photographer Philippe
Halsman. After spending the
next six years as an instructor
of photography and co-director
of the Focus workshops at
the New School for Social
Research/Parsons School of
Design, he transitioned into
set still photography and then
into scouting for commercials,
television and film. He is a co-
founder of the Association of
Location Scouts and Managers
(ALSAM), a group that helped
establish work standards
and guidelines that led to the
formal unionization of the
New York location commercial
scouts and managers.
CONTRIBUTORS
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
Movie-
Maker Magazine, Filmmaker
Magazine,
and is a regular
contributor on Stage32.com
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