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LMGI COMPASS
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Summer 2025
CONTRIBUTORS
Albert Chi/LMGI
Albert Chi began his career
producing music videos with
Paul Thomas Anderson and
co-produced feature films
The Master, Inherent Vice and
Gemini.
He served as LM on nonunion
feature films until joining the
Hollywood Teamsters 399 in
2017. Since then, he has served
as a KALM on the feature films
Fast & Furious 9, Fast X and the
TV series
The Offer, American
Gigolo, Loot
and Paradise.
He lives in California and enjoys
spending time with his family
and announcing play by play for
local college football and little
league baseball games.
Michael Glaser/LMGI
Michael Glaser is a Los Angeles-based
location manager who has worked
in film, television and commercials
over the past 17 years. Glaser has
managed locations for a wide range of
productions, from independent films
to major studio projects. His work has
taken him across the United States
and around the world, bringing creative
problem-solving and logistical expertise
to every production. His credits include
Euphoria, One Battle After Another,
Horizon: An American Saga
and The
Terminal List.
He is currently serving
his first term on the LMGI Board of
Directors.
Mary Putnam/LMGI
Mary Putnam is a location scout
and photographer with an extensive
knowledge of BC interior filming
locations. She has scouted for film,
TV and commercial productions and
worked in roles as an ALM and local
liaison. Her photography portfolio spans
tourism, film, municipalities, sports
and marketing agencies, capturing
everything from aerials and landscapes
to lifestyle and events. When she's not
working, you'll find her deep in the
backcountry with her tent, camera and
just enough trail mix to get her to the
next view.
We welcome
contributions
to the
LMGI
Compass.
Please send
submissions to
compass@
locationmanagers.org
Your story ideas,
articles and
photography belong on
these pages and on our
website.
Articles focus on
aspects of location
management and
scouting.
Photographs for the
"Martini Shot" are
exemplary location
shots, with an
evocative, artistic
component that take
it up a notch … a hero
shot in a VERTICAL
orientation.
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.
