The Location Managers Guild International has named Alison Taylor, Matt Chamberlin, Mac Gordon and Dan Taylor as new board members joining the returning leadership of Kokayi Ampah, Melissa DeMonaco, Mike Fantasia, Wes Hagen, Phill Kane, Eric Klosterman, Jj Levine, Matt Palmer, Mario Ramirez, Rebecca "Puck" Stair, and Dorion Thomas, who will serve as the 2017 Lmgi Board of Directors. The new Board will meet in the next few weeks to determine its new leadership, including…...
- 6/15/2017
- Deadline TV
The Location Managers Guild International has named Alison Taylor, Matt Chamberlin, Mac Gordon and Dan Taylor as new board members joining the returning leadership of Kokayi Ampah, Melissa DeMonaco, Mike Fantasia, Wes Hagen, Phill Kane, Eric Klosterman, Jj Levine, Matt Palmer, Mario Ramirez, Rebecca "Puck" Stair, and Dorion Thomas, who will serve as the 2017 Lmgi Board of Directors. The new Board will meet in the next few weeks to determine its new leadership, including…...
- 6/15/2017
- Deadline
This weekend reviews are flowing in from New York's Tribeca, which has been renamed the Alex Gibney Film Festival (per @thefilmcynic). (John Anderson writes him up.) In the middle of the country, folks are enjoying EbertFest (per @ebertchicago), while in La, both the LATimes Fest of Books (#latfob) and first-ever TCM Classic Film Fest are under way (@ThatRebecca). I was sorry to miss TCM's Jean-Paul Belmondo and Breathless Friday night; Saturday brings Fritz Lang's Complete Metropolis. And both Anjelica and Danny Huston turned up at The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Friday morning I interviewed two location managers (Clint Eastwood regular Kokayi Ampah and Frawley Becker, who worked several times with Herbert Ross) and line producer Steve Saeta (Spider-Man) about the vagaries of shooting on location. ...
- 4/24/2010
- Thompson on Hollywood
You watch the movie you enjoy the act,you see the actors play on a background that sometimes has more impact on you than the actor himself. The set , the scene or the background is something that a director uses to convey a message to you. That is the job of a "Location Manager", Take Kokayi Ampah for instance. He was the location manager for such films as Soloist and
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- 5/8/2009
- Films N Movies
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