John Rakich

John Rakich – Supervising Location Manager, LMGI 

John Rakich DGCO / LMGI has been working as an Assistant Location Manager, Location Scout and now as a Supervising Location Manager for over 22 years based mostly out of Toronto, Ontario Canada. With a wealth of experience working on long and short format features and numerous television series for studios and streaming services.   

He is the current President of the Location Managers Guild International as well as being on the Directors Guild of Canada Ontario board as their current Location Caucus Representative.  

A frequent speaker at college campuses, industry symposiums and a contributor of articles about filming in Ontario and Canada, production sustainability, labour workforce development and training, and the economic benefits of location-based filming; he’s also a regular panelist at San Diego Comic Con speaking about locations and location scouting.