industry partners and scouts
during a six-month organizational
campaign. The DGC BC and
Creative BC became partners
among the almost 50 other
industry supporters.
Location scouts submitted high-
resolution images and our first-
generation pioneers were invited
to be jurors during the first round
of anonymous voting.
Producer Harold Tichenor,
producer/production manager
Casey Grant, location manager
Kirk Johns and location manager
Rino Pace/LMGI voted for their
Top 25 of the approximately 130
images submitted.
The images were printed and
hung. The city skyline was the
backdrop.
Rino dug out a box of old photo
files and I installed a light table
with negatives and loupes as
an homage to the evolution of
photography.
While industry partners and
production crew mingled on a late
spring evening, the second round
of voting took place in the double-
blind competition.
Three of the Top 5 images were
won by LMGI members, and eight
LMGI members placed within
the Top 25. The Top 25 winners
received prize packages and
their 24" x 36" print(s) thanks to
the overwhelming and generous
support of our industry partners.
It is often hard to quantify one's
contribution to the creative
process, but excellence in the
filmmaking industry demands
that we recognize our value.
"A film's locations are among the
most essential creative building
blocks of film, and the scouts who
find them are artists deserving
of recognition by the Academy,"
wrote Lindsay Kusiak in
The
Hollywood Reporter
(March 8,
2023). "And like a film's score,
costumes and set design, the
locations in a film bring a world
to life onscreen. Cultivating those
locations is a craft and an art
creatively essential to the film."
This event was made possible
Matt Palmer/LMGI
