Location Managers Guild of America
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| Location Managers Guild of America | |
| Founded | 2003 |
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| Country | United States |
| Key people | Kayla Thames-Berge, President Orin Kennedy, Chairman of the Board |
| Office location | Hollywood, Los Angeles, California |
| Website | www.locationmanagers.org |
Officially incorporated on 2 December 2003, the Location Managers Guild of America is a 501(c)(6) non-profit corporation dedicated to the promotion and interests of its members and their relations with the general public, communities, and industry partners. They are primarily Location Managers, Location Scouts, Assistant Location Managers, and various business members, such as film commissions, location services vendors, and various filming locations and venues.
The LMGA is not a labor union in that they do not represent Location Managers in wages or working condition, leaving this responsibility to unions such as Teamsters Local 399 in Los Angeles, Teamsters Local 390 in Miami, and the Directors Guild of America in New York. Although, it should be noted that the LMGA has many non-union members as well. Following the Set Decorators Society of America which formed in 1993, the LMGA is also the newest guild in Hollywood (by contrast, the Screen Actors Guild was formed in 1933).
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[edit] Mission Statement
The primary mission of the Location Managers Guild of America is to enhance recognition and respect for its members within the entertainment and related industries and to strengthen their ability to develop meaningful and credible careers.
Our duty is to inspire our members to professional excellence by demonstrating how and where they might learn more and develop themselves further. The Guild passes on traditions that lessons of experience provide and insures that professional achievement builds on achievement.
The Location Managers Guild of America also strives to serve the public and the production industries through philanthropic and educational programs and through identifying, improving, exchanging and encouraging the mutual benefits of location filming among the entertainment industries and our communities.
[edit] Membership
The bulk of the membership is currently based in and around Los Angeles, but as filmmaking has become a global business, the LMGA's membership has strove to keep pace with the ever shrinking world with members based in production centers throughout the world and maintains close ties with the Guild of Location Managers in the UK.
[edit] Projects
As mentioned, one of the priorities of the guild is to create educational ventures that also help to show what it is that they do.
[edit] Last Looks: The Ambassador Hotel
Over the weekend of 20 March 2005, just before the start of the demolition of the Ambassador Hotel, the LMGA organized an event wherein Location Scouts could photograph the historic place one last time, while also teaching photography to students from Jefferson High School in South Central L.A. The photographs were later judged by a large jury that included such people as Shane Black (writer of Lethal Weapon), Alice West (co-executive producer of Ugly Betty), and Missy Stewart (production designer of Good Will Hunting). The awards ceremony was held in June 2005 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
[edit] Events
The LMGA has held various events and social networking functions at places like Façade, Pacific Park on the Santa Monica Pier, Castle Green in Pasadena, Knitting Factory, The Music Box at the Henry Fonda Theater, Montmartre Lounge, etc.
[edit] Presidents of the LMGA
- Beth Tate, Incorporator, 2003
- Bruce Chudacoff (2004-2005)
- Kayla Thames-Berge (2005-present)
[edit] Board of Directors
The current Board of Directors is comprised of the following members :
Lori Balton, Kayla Thames-Berge, Dave Berthiaume, Marylin Bitner, Bill Bowling, Robin Citrin, Kim Crabb, Karen Gilbert, Kent Matsuoka, Richard McMillan, Stevie Nelson, Peter Orth, Carole Segal, Veronique Vowell and Kristin Wagner
[edit] Founding Members
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