Location Managers Guild of America
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| Full name | Location Managers Guild International |
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| Founded | December 2, 2003 |
| Office location | Hollywood, Los Angeles, California |
| Country | United States |
| Website | www.locationmanagers.org |
The Locations Managers Guild International (LMGI) is a professional organization of Location Managers, Location Scouts, Assistant Location Managers, and affiliated business members, such as film commissions, location services, vendors, and filming venues.
Founded in 2003 as the Location Managers Guild of America, the membership voted to rename the organization as the Location Managers Guild International in 2016 to recognize the global aspect of film-making and reflect the growing international presence of its membership.
The LMGI is not a labor union in that it does not represent Location Managers in wages or working conditions, leaving this responsibility to the respective local unions such as Teamsters Local 399 in Los Angeles, Teamsters Local 390 in Miami, and the Directors Guild of America in New York City and Chicago. The organization has both union and non-union member professionals.
While the majority of the membership of the LMGI are based in Los Angeles where the guild was first established, many members began traveling to secondary production centers such as Atlanta, New Orleans, and Vancouver with the increasing dependence of production incentives, introduced their crews to the guild, and developed local location professional communities who in turn were invited to become members.
Foreign membership followed the increasing recognition of international locations such as Iceland, Jordan, and New Zealand through films such as Interstellar, The Lord of the Rings, The Martian, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and Zero Dark Thirty. The merger of the former LMGA partner organization in the United Kingdom, Guild of Location Managers, into the Production Guild of Great Britain, also resulted in a number of British Location Managers seeking an organization that represented the craft exclusively.
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