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compared to modern day trains. I mean, these things are just
massive. Double the weight of today's engines."
In the end, a VFX team scanned a steam engine from every
angle over a two-day period and then added it in post with CGI.
What's Next for Howard and His Dream Team
For the moment, Howard is focused on two things:
scouting for a number of new projects set to shoot in
New Orleans and his work with the New Orleans Film
Society (NOFS).
Howard served as President of the NOFS, a nonprofit,
from 2022 to 2023 and currently serves as President
Emeritus and sits on the Board.
At the moment, they're making final preparations for
the New Orleans Film Festival which runs from October
23-27 this year, and Howard hopes to bring Ryan
Coogler down to the Big Easy for a special screening of
Sinners with a Q&A to follow with a panel that would
also include himself.
Howard is extremely proud of what he and his team
brought to the project and is excited to bring festival
audiences into that process. They had managed to lock
all the locations halfway through the allotted 16 weeks
of prep with a total staff of 12-16 location professions for
a shoot scheduled for about 60 days that ended up just
a week over schedule due to weather.
"I've worked with most of my crew for about 16 years
now. Some a little less, some a little longer," Howard
says, "like key ALM Deven Schruff, ALMs Shiela O'Neill,
Erin Burns and Andrea Babineaux/LMGI, location scout
Jimmy Trotter, location coordinator Angel Penton, and
all my location assistants … and, every project we do
together, it becomes more and more obvious to me that
we are the location 'Dream Team,' so I just want to say
a big 'thank you' to my amazing crew. My success and
recognition are theirs as well."
SINNERS
LOCATION DEPARTMENT
SLM Elston Howard/LMGI
KALM Deven Schruff
ALMs
Erin Burns
Shiela O'Neill
Jimmy Troer
Andrea Babineaux/LMGI
Location Coordinator
Angel Penton
Location Assistants
Charles Jones
Noelle Troer
Errol Robertson
Ryan Camel
Todd Muse
