About Rhode Island International Film Festival:

“…Now in its twelfth year, the Rhode Island International Film Festival™, (RIIFF) will take place August 5-10, 2008. In its brief life span, the Festival has become a leading juried competition showcase for international independent filmmakers and their work.”

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September 19, 2006
by Jonathan Haeber
Design Programs Columnist

“Can you imagine what it was like to find the filming locations for Lord of the Rings. How about The Matrix? Your idea of a location scout may be someone who travels to exotic places, flying in helicopters above rocky cliffs or city skylines. Though the job of a location scout has its upsides, you should know that the industry of film production is both competitive and challenging.

“Contrary to popular belief, location scouting is not some sort of globe trotting expedition. Most likely 95% of your work will be close to where you live,” says Marino Pascal on photo forum, locationtalk.com.”

…read the rest…

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Below are some free resources I know of (and have initiated, in some cases) and probably belong to myself; if anyone knows of others I would be interested to find out about them:

Google Groups

There may be regional groups appropriate to your locale; here in the New York City area , the yahoo group known as lifilm is popular.

There are also many professional organizations with close ties to production, such as AICP and APA to name but a very few.

…more networking content on this website…

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updated 3/25/08 | original timestamp: May 24, 2006 @ 23:50

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“WheresSpot.com is The Internet Community for Prisoners of Advertising. Using email and the Web, it connects an enormous gang of talented people to one another.”

…read more…

In addition to its website presence, WhereSpot used to be a free Yahoo Group discussion list*, with somewhere in the neighborhood of 8,000 members at one time. Sometime around May 2007, Wheresspot moved its discussions off Yahoo Groups on-site to its self-hosted website, having added many other features to the self-hosted site such as a member map, resource directories, classifieds and blog and became a paid-subscription portal. (visit WhereSpot if you are interested in joining as a paid member)

WheresSpot Website Menu (you must be a paid subscriber and logged in to access all features)

*(IF you were a member of the old Yahoo Group, at this writing, archives prior to Thu May 3, 2007 2:14 pm can be accessed at the old Yahoo url but new posting is not allowed)

In a number of posts on the old list, as well as continuing on the new list, the moderators explained (in as many words) that in order to move the discussion list and add the other features to a self-hosted site as well as create self-motivation to continue putting the effort into maintaining an active community as diverse as WhereSpot, they needed to change to a paid-subscription model. At one point I remember reading that they felt the community had actually grown a little too big and the content of discussions had become all too redundant at times – I can personally remember receiving somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 posts (or more) over the period of a day and feeling annoyed at a lot of what was asked and discussed as the content often involved subject matter that had been visited multiple times before or seeming like people were simply too lazy to use a search engine (i.e Google or Yahoo) to find the answers to their questions; the moderators further defended the changes (in as many words) saying the community was smaller, yet comprised *only* of serious professionals, which I take to mean the people willing to pony up the subscription fee were really serious about wanting to be there.

WheresSpot is relevant for location professionals (i.e. location scouts, location managers) as the diverse scope WheresSpot’s community and discussions covers pre-production and locations with a focus on tv commercials and productions as might be used in other areas of advertising such as print ads, trade videos, marketing events and other types of media production.

Yahoo! Search: Wheresspot

• WheresSpot | The largest qualified community for advertising … |
  Welcome to WheresSpot – Community and Commerce for prisoners of advertising & broadcast production. … WheresSpot is a resource for expert informatio. […]
• WheresSpot – Community and Commerce for Prisoners of Advertising |
  Internet community for Prisoners of Advertising, Film, Television and Broadcast Production. … Hello, you need to enable JavaScript to use WheresSpot. […]
• WheresSpot (wheresspot) on Twitter |
  Community and Commerce for Prisoners of Advertising: founders: @psbx + @fieldporte

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update 3/25/08 | general cleanup | original timestamp: February 10, 2006 @ 11:30

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Anonymous wrote:

“I’m getting more and more frustrated with production companies who are less than forthright about what they actually intend to do on a shoot as opposed to what they tell me will happen when I need to apply for the filming permit.”

…read the rest… (be sure and read the responses…)

Food for thought? yes, I think!

Be-all, end-all solutions? not likely – every shoot / client / production company / producer / production team (including the location manager / location scout(s) / town / film office(s) / property owner(s) are different and all these factors of circumstances and personalities combine to create a different dynamic each time. One can only control the things one CAN control. The best summations I can think of are:

• Use your gut, be honest with yourself and everyone definitely and / or potentially involved – a strong line of communication between everyone is always a key to success of ANY project – try to to understand what responsibilities you might be taking on, whether it’s actual possible to deliver results, if success is doubtful are you willing to try anyway? what are the consequences of a failed effort?
• If everybody “played nice” wouldn’t the world be a MUCH better place?”

The thread ago started some time back, the original post is dated “Posted 10-01-2000, 11:39 AM” – the next followup was “Posted 01-10-2002, 06:31 AM” then, “Posted 01-21-2005, 10:47 AM” and I posted my followup a few weeks ago, “Posted 03-14-2008, 07:32 AM”, so it’s a pretty “spread out” discussion! That said, I believe the problems presented are probably ongoing, and despite the discussion being in the nabe of 8 years old, I believe it is still a relevant discussion.

Short of encouraging any sort of “rant-fest(s)”, I wish more location scouts / location managers (…and producers / production companies, film offices – even property owners… ) would take advantage of the wonderful resource I believe Locationtalk is and take part and contribute to its forums. I believe Locationtalk is an often-overlooked potential tool for many people.

Forums for Location Scouts and Managers

• » Parkour Action Film ‘FREERUNNER’ Being Filmed in Cleveland | Saturday, 31 July 2010, 2:57 am
  The producers were encouraged to come to Cleveland by Greater Cleveland *Film Commission* Executive Director Ivan Schwarz, who told the team of the…
• Rustic restaurant Malibu hills, The Old Place | Thursday, 29 July 2010, 3:23 pm
  Historic Old Place restaurant in the hills of Malibu on scenic Mulholland Hwy. Rustic wood building with road frontage. inside has more charm than…
• Tuolumne County Film Commission Optimistic – myMotherLode.com | Thursday, 29 July 2010, 2:00 am
  California has lost more than 36000 jobs and over $2.4 billion dollars in wages over the last decade as production has moved away. More……

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“This networking forum has been established to distill the enormous “Above-The-Line” and Key “Below-The-Line Talent” in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Europe, and around the globe… simply be, “A PRODUCER’S ONE-STOP RESOURCE”.”

…read the rest…

Membership is free, however, registration is required and applications must be approved by the group’s moderator.

This is a very active and vital discussion group populated by production professionals worldwide.

One of the stated goals of the group is to raise money for charity via its IPA (International Producer’s Alliance) Foundation:

“TARGET: Donate $100 Million to charity by 2018. 100% of all money raised goes to children’s charities”

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• International Producer’s Alliance Foundation

Yahoo! Search: yahoo groups producers alliance

• US_UK_EU_ProducersAlliance : International Producer’s Alliance |
  US_UK_EU_ProducersAlliance: International Producer’s Alliance … Founded: Jan 21, 2006. Language: English. Already a member? Sign in to Yahoo!. Yahoo. […]
• International Producer’s Alliance at nyc.locationscout.us |
  International Producer’s Alliance networking forum has been established to distill the enormous “Above-The-Line” and Key “Below-The-Line Talent” in t
• hiphopproducersclub : Hip Hop Producers – Rap and R&b Beat … |
  hiphopproducersclub: Hip Hop Producers – Rap and R&b Beat Makers Alliance. … Yahoo! Answers, a new Yahoo! community, is a question and answer exchan. […]

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LocationTalk is the only publicly accessible discussion board I know of devoted exclusively to location scouts and location managers.

LocationTalk which has been around a while, has recently updated to a VBulletin forum format. I like the user interface a lot.

Los Angeles location scout and location manager Marino Pascal owns and operates LocationTalk, locationscout.com and locations.org.

Forums for Location Scouts and Managers

• » Parkour Action Film ‘FREERUNNER’ Being Filmed in Cleveland | Saturday, 31 July 2010, 2:57 am
  The producers were encouraged to come to Cleveland by Greater Cleveland *Film Commission* Executive Director Ivan Schwarz, who told the team of the…
• Rustic restaurant Malibu hills, The Old Place | Thursday, 29 July 2010, 3:23 pm
  Historic Old Place restaurant in the hills of Malibu on scenic Mulholland Hwy. Rustic wood building with road frontage. inside has more charm than…
• Tuolumne County Film Commission Optimistic – myMotherLode.com | Thursday, 29 July 2010, 2:00 am
  California has lost more than 36000 jobs and over $2.4 billion dollars in wages over the last decade as production has moved away. More……

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Watch Elliot Cuker‘s recent interview on Fox Business Channel “Big Money in Collector Cars“

Read an article about Elliot and Cooper Classics published in The Forum, Winter/Spring 2002

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