
Hugo Smith-Bingham
Chief - Location Manager / Fixer / Stills Producer
Started in Locations in 1997 - Feature films Include ExMachina, Saving Private Ryan, The Man Who Knew Too Little, E=MC2, Driving Lessons, the Saint, Death at a Funeral. Commercials Hungryman, RSA, Biscuit Filmworks, Rattling Stick, Smuggler, Outsider, Stink, Blink, Thomas & Thomas, 2AM, Moxie Pictures,4 Creative, Park Pictures, Partizan, Gorgeous, Paul Weiland, Missing Link, ITV Creative, Fat Lemon, Smith & Jones Stills Creative Blood, Sylvia Ferago, Paolo Rovers, Warren & Nick, Mert & Marcus, Paolo Roversi, Art Partner, Jim Fiscus, Simon Mills, Dan Burn Forti, Stuart Hamilton, Pronovias and Dunhill.

Algy Sloane
Chief - Location Manager / Fixer / Stills Producer
Started in Locations in 1999 and has scouted and shot in many parts of the world. Feature films include Directors Robert De Niro, Chris Brock and Julien Seri. TV and Drama The Queen Commercials Traktor (Stink), Tom Tagholm (Park Pictures), Brett Foraker (RSA), Antoine Bardou Jacquet (Partizan) Rubern Fleischer (Caviar Content) Kim Gehris (Somesuch) Simon Ratigan (HLA) John Hillcoat (Stink) Clement Durou (Iconoclast) Guy Shelmerdine (Smuggler) to name but a few. Stills David Alan Brandt, Stuart Hamilton, Jim Fiscus, George Kavanagh Mary Mcartney, Nadav Kander and many more.
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Rod Haak
Honourary founder member
Started in locations in 1996. Scouted and shot across the world. Feature Films Directors Jonathon Glazer and Frank Oz. Stills Paolo Roversi, Simon Mills, Ashton Keiditsch, David Harriman. Commercials Vaughan Arnell, Stuart Douglas, Paul Wieiland, Tim Pope, Pay Gay, Brian Buckley, Frank Budgen, Ulf Johansson, Gus Van Sant, Ivan Bird, Jonny Green, Kevin Thomas, Dom and Nic and many more.

Luke Marshall
Head Honcho in the Scout office HQ
Started working in locations in 1999 and has covered them all. A very experienced Location Manager with a unique eye. Now he answers the phone.

George Verdon Smith
Scout - Location Manager based in London and the Southwest.
Started working as a Location Manager for Scout in 2010 and as a result is one of our leading members of the team. Location Manager for stills and moving image working for many different production companies including Channel 4, ITV creative, Partizan, Knucklehead, Hungryman, Riff Raff, Bare Films, Blink Productions Tricycle, Passion Raw, Canada and Caviar Content amongst many others. A trusted and reliable scout heavyweight

Lucinda Spurrier
Scout : Location Manager based in London
Started working for Scout in 2015. She is now one of our leading scouts and we are very happy to still have her on board. She has worked on many different productions from Feature films to commercials and is a very experienced Location Manager. Recent work for production companies include, The Sweetshop, Somesuch, Moxie, Nice Shrt, Thomas thomas, smuggler. Biscuit Films, Partizan and the BBC. Currently on maternity leave - well done Lucinda.

Toby Haak
Scout - Location Manager based in London
Started at Scout in 2009 and is a very experienced Location Manager with a great eye. Regularly works for Thomas Thomas, Smuggler, Hungryman, RSA. Stink, VCCP, Knucklehead, BBC and Parizan amongst many others. Takes a great photograph and with his cool calm head adds to an ejoyable shoot. Another Scout heavyweight.

Thomas Gale
Scout : Location Manager based in London
Started at Scout in 2015. Is a great Location Manager . Has worked for Partizan, Hungryman, Fat Lemon, Blink, And Productions, Rankin, Warp Films, Biscuit, Bare Films, Smuggler, Rattling Stick, 76 Films, 4 creative, Red Bee amongst many more. In 2018 headed up teh Location Department for BBC drama 'Wannabe'. Brings huge amounts of energy and enthusiasm to his jobs and as a result is a Scout heavyweight.

Tom Asquith
Scout / Location Manager based in London / South West / The North
Started at Scout in 2016. Has risen through the production ranks and is a keen member of the scouting team. Working as a Location Manager. Fantastic on set and out and about scouting. Production companies include Partizan, Iconoclast, Somesuch, Channel 4, Creative Blood amongst many others. Was HOD for Karma Productions in Sri Lanka in 2018.

Danny Potts
Scout : Feature film Location Manager based in London and The North
Started at Scout in 2016 - Location Manager. His upbringing in the circus enables him to cope with the pressure well with an added sense of humour. Works with all the scouts and with commercials for RSA, Rankin, Channel 4, Visual Artists, Moxie Pictures, Kream, Hungry and HLA plus others. Feature Films Has completed being the Assistant Location Manager for Stan & Ollie Directed by Jon S Baird and the Bohemian Rhapsody film, directed by Dexter Fletcher, Yesterday directed by Danny Boyle, and now working on the new Edgar Wright feature film
Fav location: SP03057
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Yael Mindel
Scout : Location Manager based in London
We are honoured to welcome our very good friend Yael to the team. This biog is not large enough to cover Yaels incredible catalogue of acheviements. Starting out in 1994 she quickly took the location industry by storm and soon worked for locations on Anthony Minghella films. Became the Location Manager in Africe for Love Actually. Her Location management has taken her across the world scouting for Tony Kaye, Paul Weiland, John Lloyd and Gerard De Thame. She has covered them all, big campaigns, feature films including her own stills photogrpahy and has generally kept us in shape ever since.

Giles Buchanan
Scout : Location Manager based in London and Scotland
Giles joined Scout PRoductions as a Location Manager in 2017 and is also a trained camera man as well, including drone operator. It is great to have him in the scout team and was been thrown into the action straight away and has not stopped. Has a very good eye for the scouting and a calm head for work on set. Has been working with Outsider, Smuggler, Minds Eye, Caviar, Partizan, North Six, Smith and Jones, Channel 4, Stink and many others and is a bonus for any shoot. His military background always helps with logistics on the ground during a production.
Fav Location: SP014185

Paul Davies
Scout :Location Manager based in London and Bournemouth
Paul is a hard grafting Location Manager cutting his teeth in the feature world. Full of enthusiasm and keen to put in that extra mile or two.....hundred. A great member of the team on set always there to help out. Works reguylarly with the same clients because he is so good. Picture Farm, Fat Lemon, Somesuch, Radical Media, ITN, Pixie Loft and 2AM plus many more.

Guy Signy
Scout : Location Manager based in London and the East.
Guy joined scout in 2019 with tons of experience under his belt and is one of our go to Location Managers for the more complex mutli-location shoots. His background is TV as a Producer Director / cameraman. So all in all, multi talented and understands all the roles. Great energy and brilliant with people. We are chuffed to have him on board. Recent credits include working with Outsider, Smuggler, HLA, Stink

Nico Cousin
Scout : Location Manager based in London and France
We are delighted to add Nico to the team, joining us in Mid 2018 and becoming a key member of the team. He is a great Location Manager and started in the industry in Nice, France back in 2000. He slips perfectly into our international scouting team. He has worked alongside the Scout team for a number of years and is a well known face on set. Hard working and has huge enthusiasm for getting the job done. He Has worked with Commercial productions for Knucklehehad, Thomas Thomas, Tomboy London, Partizan, RSA, Somesuch, Iris Worldwide, Sonny, Hungry Man, North Six and also in the features world. Scouting for Mamma Mia 2 and the Voyage of Doctor Doolittle. Bienvenue.

Patrick Talbot
Scout : Location Manager based in Ireland
Joined Scout in 2017. He is a great Location Manager (or even a stunt horse rider) and has worked on Film , TV Commercials and Online Content for companies which include: Channel 4, Working Title, Marmalade Films, RSA, Indy 8, 76 Ltd, ScallywagLtd, Biscuit Films, Mustard and Blink. Takes a lovely picture and has a great calm approach to productions.
Fav Location: SP01235

Bill Clay
Scout : Location Manager based in London
Bill joined the team late 2017. Has predominantly worked on Features & TV and scouted for Commercials such as Burberry, Vans, Adidas and HSBC. Companies including Caviar, Minds Eye, BBC, Sky, Freemantle Media, Fulwell 73, My Accomplics, Netflix and Gorgeous. Has now proved himself to be a great Location Manager with an enthusiastic and a cool calm head. Bill worked in 2018 as Assistant Location Manager on a drama and has picked up invaluable experience.

Conor White Andrews
Scout : Location Manager based in London and the South West
Conor started working with Scout in 2018. He is a Location Manager and Location Assistant - and a very good one. He throughly enjoys taking on a brief and trying to make it work and has headed up his own projects such as Surfers Against sewage with Director Tom Tagholm and the latest ITV idents with Academy both receivng really good reviews at the moment. Has assisted all our scouts and a very useful addition to the team.

Amrit Sahotay
Scout : Location Manager based in London and the North
Amrit, joined Scout in early 2019 and has taken to it like a duck to water. He has already worked with some top production compaines, including Academy Films, Smuggler, Radical Media, Stink, Caviar tv and Blink. He has just completed a short film with somesuch which is out early 2020, it required some tricky and sensitive locations. According to the Producer 'he was totally over every aspect of it with charm and swagger'.
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Ryan Colaço
Scout: Location Assitant
Ryan has been working in locations for several years and finally agreed to join the Scout team in 2020. He is a brilliant member of the team and we are really glad to have him on board and yes he does look like that in the picture - makes Hugo and I look right old duffers. He is a fantastic Location Assistant and adds great energy and enthusiasm to the shoot. Will scale the location ladder super quick.

Ben MacGregor
Scout: Location Manager based in London
Ben there and done that. A fantastic Location Manager who has been working in the industry since 2003 back in the Peter Ker Associates days. We are thrilled to have him on board. has been the Location Manger for feature Films, Somerstown (Dir Shane Meadows), Rock n rolla (Dir Guy Ritchie) through to Dramas, Finding Alice (Dir Juliet May) and then a whole host of adverts with every Production Company you can think of. Has in depth knowledge of shooting in Tunisia, Spain, Sri Lanka can speak portugese and Spanish. Brings a great energy and humour to every shoot along with his dogs the amazing and greatly missed 'Marmite' and his new companion 'Bear'. Ben has been the location Manager of numerous fashion shoots all over the UK and has shot in pretty much every street in London.

Morgane Valadié
Location Assitant and Scout HQ support
Morgane joined Scout in August 2020 and has started learning the ropes by being in charge of library enquries in the office. This has helped her get a speedy knowledge of addressing briefs and being able to hunt down the exact location as quickly as she can. Speaks fluent French and English. She has recently been Location Assistant for a large Commercial for Iconoclast heading up all Location Marshals and is ready to tackle any new project. She is calm under pressure and a real pleasure to work with.

Chester Sherburne
Scout: Location Assistant
A new and great addition to the Scout team - we welcome Chester who has been assiting us on various project through the latter half of 2020. A well known face on set and brings energy and enthusiasm. Recent projects that he has been assisting on are Iconoclast, Snapper Films, Voodoo Films and Radical Media. Will no doubt rise up the ranks very quickly.

John-Tore Eastmond
Scout: Over Qualified Location Assistant & Unit Manager
No introduction needed. John-Tore in the house!