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Today we bring you, BOOM, The Albuquerque Film Guide, a vehicle for connecting production and film industry resources at every level. It is a magazine that not only entertains with its editorial content, but has meaning, providing useful, and relevant film friendly information in our listings section. BOOM will be published quarterly, so unlike annual guides, nothing is out of date once it is published. We are proud of the potential effect that BOOM will have on the economic development of our area-giving local business a direct line to the rapidly growing film industry here.

Breaking Bread with Bryan Cranston An interview with Bryan Cranston, of hit series Breaking Bad about his life, his career and his compelling role as character Walt White.

Dear Readers, BOOM started as a small conversation with big ideas over coffee with Albuquerque Film Commissioner, Ann Lerner. I like to publish magazines with purpose and last February, nothing made more sense than planning a magazine to meet the need for connectivity between New Mexico’s booming (pardon the pun) film business and the available resources of Albuquerque and Bernalillo County. Joining these conversations were Commissioner Deanna Archuleta and, Gail Smerigan and Nick Smerigan of Albuquerque Studios; a team was formed.

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By Wendy Aaker

Mapping New Mexico An interview with Michael Dellheim, locations manager, who has a unique history of finding his way in the business.

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By Gene Grant

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Form and Function Wranglers At Your Service Bull-riding wrangler Mark Sanchez of Crossroads Ranch and Rodeo Production Company holds onto his heritage from the Wild West Rodeo shows of the 30s to the contemporary arena of film production.

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Boom: Used to get a microphone above the talent without being seen by the camera.

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Editor Wendy Aaker wendy@miscpubs.com

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Treating what ails you at La Bella Spa and Salon and Yoga Now.

MOVE:Run Altitude Why walk when you can run?

Simple steps for exercising at higher elevation for sea-level runners.

By Sidsel Overgaard

Healthy Food, Fine Dining and New Mexican Gems

Swig Drinking in the Q Crystal clear insights on the swig, the swagger, the gotta-have-it, so delicious range of drinks in Albuquerque.

By Emily Beenen

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Groove Entertainment in the Q Finding fun after the final cut of the day. How to get your groove on in Albuquerque.

By Emily Beenen

Beat Sheet Down Time A word with Pat Sansome of alternative country band Wilco on the beauty of a pre-concert stay at Los Poblanos Inn and Cultural Center in the North Valley.

By Ben Ikenson

Creative Director Michelle M. Gutierrez michelle@miscpubs.com

Copy Editor Jillian Oaks jillian.oaks@gmail.com

Finding Quiet

Whose hungry? Finding great food for all tastes.

ABOUT THE COVER­—

Director of Sales Angie Clements angie@miscpubs.com

Tone

By Sidsel Overgaard

By Wendy Aaker

Missy Penor, Publisher

Chief Financial Officer Shauna Kusnetz shauna@miscpubs.com

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Regards,

Publisher Missy Penor missy@miscpubs.com

L.A. Couture in Albuquerque

By Wendy Aaker

We wish to thank all of the contributors, especially the advertisers and sponsors who made this launch possible. We look forward to growing with everyone in the industry and building a community of strength and sustainability.

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Wish You Name It Joyce Smith of Studio Concierge makes things happen for executives in the industry with style, professionalism and efficiency.

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By Wendy Aaker

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or six months Bryan Cranston made Albuquerque, New Mexico his temporary home. The former Malcolm in the Middle star lived and breathed the dismal and riveting life of a high school chemistry teacher (Walt White) gone meth dealer for the AMC hit series Breaking Bad, while filming between various city locations and Albuquerque Studios.

I meet Bryan Cranston in the lobby of the Marriott Uptown a few hours before he flies back to L.A. I am mildly disappointed that he does not greet me in his Walt White underwear, but I understand, the mornings are cool here. We shake hands, smile and wind our way into the dining area, which is largely empty, except for several people who are available to serve us coffee and create made-to-order omelets.

We don’t eat right away. We talk about where Bryan could purchase a loft, or townhome, discussing the merits of different parts of town.

This was in March. Since then, Bryan has not only returned to Albuquerque to shoot the second season of Breaking Bad, but he’s been nominated for an Emmy for lead actor and the show has four much deserved Emmy nominations.

While we are standing at the buffet designing our breakfast, Bryan is at home and speaks with enthusiasm to the omelet chef about something he calls “the Cranston special”: an egg white omelet with everything in it but sausage and just a sprinkling of cheese.

It’s apparent that Bryan’s been eating these concoctions every morning and developing a repoire with the omelet chef. I order mine with more cheese, yolks, tomatoes, and

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sausage when Bryan tells me that he’s on a diet; this launches us head first into the undeniably complex world of Walt White.

Bryan slips into talking about Walt in the first person. “I had to go through chemo,” he says, and for a moment I am confused and amazed.

“You went through chemo to understand your character?” I ask. Bryan sets me straight with an amused laugh and reveals some things he knows about the impact of chemotherapy, including weight loss and the metallic taste of foods.

The flip side to weight loss is, of course, weight gain and Bryan talks to me about Walt’s flabbiness, both emotional and physical. Bryan speaks about Walt with tenderness, as if he misses him and I find myself wanting to know them both a little better. My coffee has gone cold because talking to Bryan is captivating. I forget to take notes or write anything at all at first because we fall into the rhythm of people having breakfast. Words tumble out of our mouths like acrobats on speed, most of mine pausing mid-air, grateful for the net beneath us, while I listen to the world of Walt White and, subsequently, Bryan Cranston.

I offer early on that Walt strikes me as something of a Willy Loman and Bryan agrees enthusiastically at first, his face a topographical map of dynamic self-expression.

He is after all a fine physical comedian. “He is similar to Willy, but the difference is that Willy always thought he was just around the corner from his big sale, the one that would make all the difference and then it wouldn’t happen and he’d get down, lose hope, and fall into anger.” I nod in agreement

recollecting my first reading of Death of a Salesman. “With Walt, there is none of that false excitement. He’s not a dreamer.” If Walt is not a dreamer, Bryan is certainly capable of imagining the untold life of this character that has so clearly become an internalized portrait for his own analysis. Bryan shares with me a conversation he had with Breaking Bad writer and creator Vince Gilligan about what he envisioned happened to Walt 25 years ago.

“Vince refused to tell me what happened to Walt, so I had to make it up for myself.” This it seems was born out of necessity in order to create a depth of understanding about the complex nature of human decisionmaking—or even chance—a story to assist Bryan in crafting the history and depth of this character.

According to Bryan, this is what happened to Walt 25 years ago: In his early 20s, Walt had this powerful opportunity to become a chemical researcher, work for a major pharmaceutical company, and potentially position himself to cure all kinds of diseases, but instead he becomes a high school chemistry teacher because he’s not willing to take the risk of possible failure and he just wants to do something that other people, particularly his family members, will approve of. Teaching he thinks, is a noble profession.

And it is. Who can argue with that?

He was told by everyone in his family that the world was his to command, but he developed a fear of success and worried that he would never match other people’s expectations of himself, so he entered a region of compromise.“It’s like this,” explains Bryan.

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While I suspect there may be a few other scenarios, I understand the dichotomy that Bryan is presenting and he continues to elaborate on the internal world of Walt and I believe on some level a part of Bryan himself.“Walt becomes an implosion, invisible to everyone around him, including himself; he is just a shadow of a man. He’s gone to seed and he’s soft inside, soft outside, and soft emotionally…” and Bryan pauses here for emphasis, I don’t remember, he might have even taken a bite of his omelet. “...but he’s sitting on a volcano.”

I imagine Bryan in his underwear sitting on one of the four defunct volcanoes we have to the west of Albuquerque. “So his self worth is so low that he’s not even capable of anger, but he’s also so complex and wonderful because he loves his wife and son so much.

Ultimately, the life he has been living is not the life he imagined for himself and he ends up on a rollercoaster when he’s diagnosed with cancer.”

I ask Bryan if he likes rollercoasters.

“Oh I love rollercoasters. That’s why I love the movies because as the audience you are accepting the conceit of watching the movie.

Human beings are wonderful to just let go of everything and it works as long as the actor or the script does not lie to the audience.”

Bryan then describes to me the experience of walking into a room that you have never been in before. He swirls his arms around pointing to the features of the room that we are in. As an actor, if you walk into the room as if you have never been there before, you look around. He looks around with a mildly perplexed expression on his face and for a moment I believe that he’s never been in the room before, even though I know better. “If you have been there before, then you take your usual seat and get down to the business of being there. You establish a truth with the audience. The truth is: either you have been there before or you have not.”

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He’s gone to seed and he’s soft inside, soft outside, and soft emotionally, but he’s sitting on a volcano.

Bryan walked into his first acting class, Bryan had been close to a completely different life path, the life path of a police officer. He had excelled in the police sciences in school early on and followed it for a little while because as he says, “I was really good at police science so I thought, yeah, I can do this. I hadn’t seen my father for about ten years and I had no masculine role models. Police work seemed to offer that. And like Walt I wasn’t headed toward riding the rollercoaster and I knew that. I think there’s a big difference between seeking external approval and understanding your own internal compass. I knew that I just had to find something that I loved to do.

I found that,” says Bryan smiling. He then shares with me one of those life-changing moments. “I took an acting class to diversify and I show up at this class and it’s full of beautiful women. I kept taking those classes.”

Who wouldn’t?

Bryan is an actor who thinks like a writer.

He has a vast capacity for getting inside a character’s head. He has an ability to create a past, physical movements, and facial expressions that are synonymous with the writer’s intentions. When Bryan talks about Walt he gets very excited; he fills the room and I want to talk to Walt. I feel at times that I am—in the sense that I feel his presence underneath the surface of our Marriot hotel conversation.

He also happens to be a writer and I love what he says about a writing life. He wrote a screenplay called Last Chance, a Valentine’s Day present for his wife. “The writing of it was wonderfully lonely. Writing is like this little secret you have with yourself.” And then, he gets excited all over again. “You know how it is when you are reading a great book and you just can’t wait to curl up in bed with it? It’s like the story line is your secret. Writing is like that. You develop these little private moments

with the knowledge that eventually it’s all going to be exposed. It’s like being naked in the dressing room. Here I am overweight in tighty whities and I get a little depressed and then I have to step out in front of the crew and cast and it’s a vulnerable feeling. That’s when you just have to let go and just be. It takes some courage, but if something is right then I am willing to do it.”

Because Bryan has mentioned his wife a few times, I am curious about how they met and I am curious about how being Walt or any other character affects his marriage. Seems like a fair question for this easy-going guy. And it is.

Bryan’s take on blending marriage and character transformation is both thoughtful and comical. “Well, the healthy thing to do is to zip yourself up with the character and then unzip before you go home. “I do not want to take Walt’s troubles home with me.”

And it seems that he has not with Walt. Then he grins this mischievous little grin. “On the other hand, right now I am playing this slick smarmy character in Love Ranch (also being filmed in New Mexico, helmed by Oscarwinning director Taylor Hackford and starring the lovely Oscar winner, Helen Mirren) He’s a cocky and confident guy and he and Joe Pesci’s character are at odds with each other.

We just love to rip each other’s throats out.

My character’s name is Jimmy Pettis and he is the kind of character that can seep in at home…a little bit. But I know that if I do this and come home and get all cocky...well… my wife is great. She’d give me one look and say, ‘Bryan, this shit does not work!’ My wife is very grounding.”

Bryan then describes his wife and his family as part of an essential foundation in light of his own childhood experiences. “You know my dad was an actor. Now he was on the rollercoaster, but he was on a rollercoaster built by drunk carnies. I wouldn’t want to

be on that one. There was success and then there wasn’t. He never built a foundation.

For me it’s been really important to establish a foundation. I’ve got a family and a home and I know I have a tether to my family and I am not going to take risks with that.

It’s this foundation that allows me to take professional risks.”

I remind him that he owes me the story of his courtship and he laughs, eager to tell it because his eyes light up like a man still in love. God bless him. “Well, I was 29 when we met the first time, but we were both in other relationships. So we got to know each other over time without that sexual agenda getting in the way. It’s so hard to get to know someone with all that sexual tension, so we became friends. The movie we were working on ended and then I didn’t see her again until a year later when I joined this improv class, doing comedy and guess what?”

“What?” I offer, leaning forward in my seat, because he is, of course, talking about love.

“Well, we saw each other and said, ‘Wow, it’s so great to see you.’ We stayed in the class together for a little while and then one time when we said hello at the start of class, we just kissed each other on the lips.”

I do a little internal squeal when he tells me this because it’s just so great to hear about this kind of thing. Then Bryan sends me into some kind of hysterical fit of laughter because he starts making out with his hand to demonstrate the kind of kiss that he and Robin experienced and again I am a little confused because I think he’s telling me that he was making out with her hand and that’s a little weird, but he clarifies and offers that he was just trying to show me what kind of a kiss it was.

Hilarious man.

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hen they announced No Country For Old Men, as Best Picture this year, it all came full circle,” explains Michael Dellheim, a New Mexico locations manager who has a unique history of finding his way in the business. “Full circle” in his case means from his early days as a Californian, where his location management career began with Valentino Returns. His New Mexico fate, however, was fixed a few years earlier as a locations liaison for The Milagro Beanfield War in the northern part of the state. “I fell into the business. I was living in L.A. working in crafty on commercials and the locations manager on a big commercial had not 8

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bothered to drive the route to the site and failed to pick up a detail and sent everyone down a one-way street. The UPM ripped into him and he actually started to cry. It made a big impression on me,” Dellheim said. There may be no be crying in baseball, but the pressures of location management have been known to drop a few now and again.

But Dellheim had a secret weapon at his disposal and has kept the faucets closed: map making. “I was into making maps before Google Earth, Mapquest and such.

That was my gimmick. ‘Call Dellheim! He does good maps!’” he says with a laugh. “It becomes a big deal getting 150 people to the same place from different points. It’s not like getting everyone to a factory,” he said.

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Location scouting in a state the size of New Mexico, the fifth largest in the country, affords a unique set of challenges and opportunities. Namely, doubling for a number of southwestern states, as No Country did. “The story is built as Texas and we had to double that convincingly, even though I told Joel and Ethan [Coen] not to mess with it,” said Dellheim. “But they needed and wanted to do it here and we did it fairly seamlessly. I couldn’t even tell when they cut it together,” Dellheim said.

That “need” Dellheim speaks of is the filmmaking incentive program through the state of New Mexico. And it’s growing.

And with it, the challenges of doubling for other places. Luckily, the state offers such

a diversity of locations and scenery it can usually be accomplished, within reason.

“Films here are drawn by the incentives.

Producers are convinced they have to do it in New Mexico, and as a locations manager, you have to deliver a look,” Dellheim said.

A recent example would be Love Ranch, the Taylor Hackford directed, Helen Mirren, Joe Pesci and Bryan Cranston starring story about the infamous brothel of the same name in Reno, Nevada. “Fortunately Reno has a similar longitude and latitude, but the main street of the Biggest Little City In the World can’t be faked,” said Dellheim.

The actual Love Ranch itself, was another story altogether. “We built a massive brothel

He adds with a chuckle, “Every film we get, they are looking for three things: the diner, the gas station, and the motel…all on the road to nowhere.” in San Ysidro with a huge neon sign of a woman swiveling her hips. Truckers were stopping, saying, ‘When do you open?’

Security guards were constantly telling people no,” he relates with another laugh.

If part and parcel of the job is finding that perfect location, the owner may not care a whit what the needs are for the film.

This, Dellheim says, is when location managers earn their money: the delicate negotiations that can turn on a dime. They don’t come any trickier than 2005’s North Country, (which earned Charlize Theron a Best Actress nomination and Frances McDormand a Best Supporting Actress nod) where Dellheim was charged with finding locations to double for northern Minnesota.

Interiors and streetscapes are one thing, an entire mining operation is another situation altogether.

Dellheim had to negotiate with the Phelps Dodge mining operation based in the southwestern New Mexico location of Silver City. “Phelps Mining had a terrible distrust of all things media and the film industry, but it turned out in the end to be a real joy from both ends,” Dellheim said. Inspired by the book Class Action, the film was the story of the sexual harassment suit brought against the Eveleth Taconite mining company in Minnesota by Lois Jenson.

“Without being corny it was a tremendous cooperative effort. The sexual harassment case was something they were sympathetic

to,” Dellheim said. “They have a lot of women working there.” The process, as Dellheim discovered, was going to be anything but a couple of meetings and a handshake. “Just to let us in, we did safetytraining classes and got certified. I still have the card in my wallet. Considering all the regulations, it was tremendous to get that access after six months of negotiations. In fact, it was a monumental achievement just to do it,” Dellheim said. “We did a special screening for the Phelps people, and to see big rough miners with tears in their eyes was truly an emotional moment,” Dellheim said.

For Dellheim and others doing the work of locations, they are not alone. The uptick in film projects in nearly every corner of the state has given local municipalities, decision-makers, retailers, and property owners a taste of the possible that’s resulted in a state wide understanding of the process. According to Dellheim, “the whole permission chain is well integrated here.

When it was new, it was different. Everyone is pretty much up to speed now. When we won Best Picture this year it really validated the whole incentive chain,” Dellheim said.

Dellheim has seen the state come a long way since the early 90s western film boom, with assignments on The Missing, The Longest Yard, Bordertown, Seraphim Falls, In The Valley Of Elah, and the Kevin Costner vehicle, Swing Vote, among others.

The Gregory Nava directed, Jennifer Lopez starring Bordertown found Dellheim negotiating with the former Albuquerque Tribune for use of their newsroom. “We were prepared to build it, but I said, what the hell, why don’t we ask? We were able to co-exist for a week. There’s a certain richness and depth there that we didn’t have the money for. It’s hard to fake that,” Dellheim said.

While the western may be gone as the sole foundation for New Mexico’s palette, what’s come in it’s place is a range of projects from high brow independent features (Guillermo

Arriaga’s The Burning Plain, filmed partly in Las Cruces), to huge franchise vehicles (Indiana Jones, shot partly in the Deming area), to the latest Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins, or in local parlance, T4.

“Brand names like T4 are really beyond the old westerns. They could go anywhere, but word of mouth is going well,” Dellheim notes. “We really have the whole state to work with now. I got calls from Seraphim Falls asking, ‘Where did you find that huge desert scene?” Dellheim said. “We’ve started getting more calls as they see more of the state. In the old days everyone just wanted to be near Santa Fe.” He adds with a chuckle, “Every film we get, they are looking for three things: the diner, the gas station, and the motel… all on the road to nowhere.” Along that road, Dellheim has developed a sense of what it’s going to take from his end of the world to ensure New Mexico’s film largesse continues. “This is my 23rd year here, so I’m not trying to make a name. I’m sensitive about companies being disrespectful,” Dellheim said. “I’d like to see it last, so you have to be respectful to land owners. I don’t have a wild west, boomtown attitude, even though we are a boomtown. When you’re young, you work for that ‘yes.’ As I’ve gone along, it’s become critical to protect and manage the guardianship of locations.

That’s important.If it all went south there would be location fatigue and all the usual locations would dry up. There’s a collective responsibility to keep locations on the market. It’s not just a house, it’s about protecting the neighbors. When you say traffic is going to be five minutes, it can’t be fifteen,” Dellheim said.

Michael Dellheim is a mapmaker and locations guardian with an eye for finding locations that work for the film industry and New Mexico.

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Wranglers At Your Service

By Wendy Aaker ark Sanchez of the Crossroads Ranch and Rodeo Production Company is about as genuine a man as I have ever met. He is warm, friendly, and unequivocally kind-hearted. With a family ranching and wrangling heritage that reaches back to the Wild West Rodeo shows of the 30s, Sanchez understands all of the details of the rodeo production business.

His grandfather rode wild broncos and his daddy rode bareback. He tells me that he’s got a whole bunch of rodeo belts but he’s given them all away because “What’s [he] gonna do with a mess of belts and buckles?” He may not know what to do with his belts and buckles anymore, but he knows exactly what to do with 150-300 head of horses, bulls, saddle horses, calves, steers, plus a few goats and sheep. The Crossroads Ranch and Rodeo Productionv Company is a full-service movie barn and complete ranch rodeo production company that operates out of New Mexico, Southern Colorado, Arizona, California, and East Texas.

I meet Mark at the Flying Star Downtown, a nice urban juxtaposition for this bull-riding wrangler who stands 6’7” without his hat.

While he’s not exactly out of place at the Albuquerque institution for baked goods and hot coffee, his hulking frame looms large over small café tables and I imagine he is more comfortable on a ranch than in a café.

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(PRCA) veteran saddle bronc and bull rider, got his start in the film industry as a bronc rider in the feature film When Legends Die while he was still in high school. He began professional rodeo production in 1978 and has operated Crossroads as a family business for the last 20 years. He is joined in the business by family members Tracy and Charity Sours and Cassidy Sanchez. He explains that the business has come a long way since they furnished all the horses for Natural Born Killers. “At the time we worked on Natural Born Killers, my girls were little and we couldn’t raise our kids on the film industry business alone. But the girls are both horse trainers and barrel racers and they’re the smartest of the bunch. If it wasn’t for family, we couldn’t make this business work.” And make it work they do.

Crossroads is equipped to work on three to four shows at a time in different states. While Sanchez explains that the largest marketplace is currently California, he believes New Mexico is number two. “We’ve got people and animals working every day in California and I am guessing that 2008 is going to see in the realm of billions worth of revenue in production in New Mexico.”

In addition to home-grown bulls and local purchases, Sanchez explains the importance of their formal partnership with M&M Bucking Bulls owned by Gary and Larry Martin of Table Mesa, New Mexico. This partnership is essential for creating a broad base for operations and allows them to keep production costs more affordable for clients.

All of the Crossroads bucking bulls come from

Roy Carter Bucking Bulls. Carter is a PRCA former contender for World Championship Bull Rider, a PBR Stock Contractor, and a professional cutting horse trainer.

While most of the animal work they do involves horses and cattle, they are capable of getting their hands on any animal that is a legal species. Recently they had a call to procure African Elephants for a movie that was filming in White Sands. “But because there’s been a moratorium on importing African elephants into the country we had to network for such a unique request and find African elephants that were already in the country.” Sanchez recalls that his most memorable shoot was working with three Alaskan Timberwolves, a pack of two brothers and one sister. “Their size really took me by surprise. They measured 30” at the shoulder and they’ve got a bite capacity that is double that of a pit bull per pound. Everybody loved those animals.”

Mark explains that they just recently wrapped on the Toby Keith video Beer for My Horses that was filmed at Bonanza Creek. “I worked in transportation as a driver. In New Mexico you can work as both a driver and a wrangler.”

Other recent film industry contracts include Brothers, The Dark Country, and Wildfire. where Mark and Crossroads Ranch were employed as Livestock/Animal Coordinators; they furnished all livestock and animals, trucks, trailers, pens, and animal wrangler base camp.

This also included hiring crew and managing all aspects of every job.

A typical day for wranglers and other crew

at Crossroads is not unlike a rancher’s day and usually begins at three in the morning.

Wranglers arrive at base camp by four, eat breakfast by four-thirty, and check on all the animals. Sanchez explains that animals will often need to be rotated two to three times a day on set in order to keep the animals fresh. One of the more challenging aspects of rotating animals is securing doubles that look identical for filming purposes. In addition to managing livestock, Crossroads employees are also responsible for screening horses for actors and actresses. “We teach ‘em to ride and match ‘em up with the right horse. It’s our job to make sure that people are safe.” Of working with actors and actresses, Sanchez shared that his favorite celebrity is Sam Shepherd. “Now, Sam, he’s a real horseman and just a great guy, real down to earth,” says Sanchez.

Crossroads was recently named as the exclusive livestock, equipment, and exotic animal provider for Albuquerque Studios. “Having Albuquerque Studios here,” says Sanchez, “is just huge for everyone in the business. They talk to a lot of people in the industry and know what’s coming here long before the movie ever gets here, so that makes it a real win-win situation for all of us.”

Crossroads is clearly capable of creating win-win situations as the premiere rodeo production talent in the state of New Mexico.

Mark Sanchez is a true gentleman and a cowboy, so call him up and listen to Johnny Cash while you wait for him to come inside from wrangling to answer his phone.

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Berry-filled buttermilk pancakes—like the god of breakfast made ‘em—served with pistachio butter and real maple syrup, to make foodies from any coast skip. Locally baked breads and free range eggs makes Sophia’s a local dive done better, complete with acerbic chef/ owner behind the open kitchen line. Order your breakfast burrito with the chipotle sauce.

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Bright, cheerful café in an up and coming neighborhood with a good cup of coffee, a well-baked muffin, and a menu with not-too-twisted classics that shows the chef really does love his mom.

Also a deli double for on the go. Hooray for gentrification!

Annapurna Café Does your vata, pitta, or kapha need balancing? Annapurna, the Hindu goddess of food and cooking, is watching over you as your stomach happily and easily digests this wheat-free, vegetarian Indian food created mindful of Ayurvedic principles.

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How hard is it to make a good sandwich, people? Why can’t everybody do it as good as Relish?

Fresh greens, deli meats sliced in house, interesting cheeses, and just the right wasabi aioli or green apple addition to balance the sandwich symphony.

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Italian guys and steakhouses are like braggadocio on the basketball court. You gotta have some hubris to pull it off or don’t ever show your face again. Marcello’s proves guts and glory in this endeavor, which covers a lot of turf, and a little bit of surf in this classically designed steakhouse complete with piano bar and attentive, formal service. Appetite is not optional.

Chef du Jour The quaint, but recently expanded space doubles the room for patrons to suck the sweet garlic vinaigrette off their greens. Menu changes with spectacular regularity to showcase new seasonal flavors. Save room for housemade ice cream.

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In a man’s world, the insouciant Jennifer James does clean, seasonal, egoless food simply and impeccably prepared in a sleek, modern setting. Ask her to pair wines with your courses.

Zinc Sporting high-powered executives around town? Head to Zinc. Feign civility with the big boys over a bottle of Plumpjack Cabernet, then tumble downstairs to the Prohibition-dark Cellar Bar for the real politics.

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Tucked away in Old Town and too easily forgotten, nobody does French like the French. From the paté to the last bottle of Bourgogne, owner Claudi Michel has perfected the flavor of the French countryside in the high-desert.

Indigo Crow The crow often signifies trickster in multiple cultures, hence you may be occasionally displeased with the inconsistent, but mostly brilliant contemporary American fare. Cobblestone floors, a central hearth, and a charismatic wine list help to smooth your feathers while visiting the village of Corrales, just north and west of Albuquerque.

Flying Star Bakery and Café Albuquerque is a widespread town, but the Flying Star and its accomplice, Satellite Coffeehouse, cover a lot of ground with over a dozen locations. This locally owned counter service franchise does a consistent New Mexican breakfast, then flings the menu worldwide for lunch and dinner. For all you Los Angelinos, this is Albuquerque’s answer to Urth Café.

The Range There’s a few around Albuquerque, but it’s worth the twenty minute drive to Bernalillo to experience the original. Portions are all-American, but the fresh ingredients don’t leave you feeling wah-wah heavy like many other gooey New Mexican places.

Barelas Coffee House There’s New Mexican and then there’s the real deal. Hone your “Si, senora,” sharpen the chile portion of your palate, and prepare to wait a couple of chicharones deep for breakfast on the weekends or lunch any day at this 30-year old paragon.

Frontier Once established, the green chile fix is a chubby monster with high needs. Don’t deprive it – go to the almost always open institution that is the Frontier and feed it, along with your now ever-growing need for warm, soft, made-to-order tortillas and a fillyour-mouth-full sticky bun (Don’t order the frosting on the side though, it’s a no go). A few minutes of people watching will easily fill any blanks about why ‘Querque is quirky.

El Patio Behind the tall blue fence and amidst twinkly lights awaits the best sopaipillas in town along with killer carne adovada, rarely found spinach enchiladas, and (gasp!) accommodations for vegans.

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Northeast Heights eating became less frightful in recent years with the addition of this Napa-styled restaurant. California abounds on the winelist, with nods to unique varietals and European ancestry, along with a delightfully broad selection of sparkling wines and Champagne. Highback leather chairs help you eat for hours and buttercreamy coloring and multiple skylights make you feel airy despite any indulgences. Help break in the just opened patio area.

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Blackbird Buvette

(French for “buffet” but without the American denotation) Local rockstars from The Dirty Novels try their hand at this slightly swanky European style restaurant/bar/coffeehouse. Slink to the back patio for a perfectly chilled glass of rose and secluded feel on a midsummer’s eve.

Slate Street Cafe

Neighborhood getaway winds a charming staircase up to its second level winebar. Perhaps the slightly off, but hushed and comfortable decorating scheme is meant to match the slightly more esoteric wine offerings, made simple with pithy, bright descriptions. A civilized place to sit and sip before the frenzy of a Friday night begins to froth in Downtown Albuquerque.

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Chama Taproom

Goofy, tiny, chill hang with four locally brewed beers on tap, one rotating seasonal brew, a variety of potato chips, and a bartender who knows your name, whether you are famous or not.

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Nob Hill Bar and Grill

Putting together paradoxical terms “upscale” and “joint,” this spank-me-new place connotes the every person’s hang out, offering gourmet interpretations of time-honored comfort food with the casualness of a local pub.

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Whisque

Every straight guy needs a place to take his man dates. Decidedly masculine decor abound with flat screen TVs, a fireplace lounge with leather seating, a plethora of beer, and a carnival of meat for the carnivore (read damn good ribs). For lady dates, mango mojitos and unparalleled patio seating for sunsets and finger licking.

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The Atomic Cantina: The world of Elvises collide at the Atomic, which hosts live music in the vein of alternative/indie/punk/ rockabilly. Sundays and Wednesdays (maybe), Fridays and Saturdays (definitely) you might catch a show; Rockstar Karaoke Extravaganza goes down every Tuesday; but the Cantina’s coup de grace is Rockabilly Round-up on Thursdays, where The Long Gone Trio and Slik 50 help you swing like you’ve never swung before. Roll up your 501 Blues and run a comb through your pompadour, ‘cause there’s nevah a cover charge.

Burt’s Tiki Lounge:

Lounge about next door to the Atomic at the camp-orific Burt’s. Get your geek on Tuesdays for Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz, bust out your B-Boy/Girl crew for Breakdancing Wednesdays and British Hip Hop on Thursdays. Weekend nights brings an assortment of rock, experimental noise, indie, bluegrass, thrash, punk, alt-country, synth pop, and every thing in between. Great drink specials throughout the week as well and like their friendly neighbors, no cover ever.

Century Rio & Century Downtown:

The Guild: The only remaining independent theatre in town hosts various film festivals, GLBT, South by Southwest Shootout, not the least of which was Pornotopia!, a porn film festival, which was almost shut down (controversy runs amok in Albuquerque, too, you know). Fortunately, our hero, Captain Loophole, saved independent theatre once and for all! Hurrah!

It’s good to be different.

Q-Bar: The thing about

hotel bars is the transitional crowd makes it hard to dictate the vibe. Q-Bar offers a variety of spaces to fit your mood, though.

The main bar area, where a range of live music is played Wednesday through Saturday night, is definitely loungey, filled with plush orangish velvety chairs, burgundy velvet curtains, and muted lighting. There’s a smaller room for billiards, which is surrounded by booths that are tucked away if you desire a bit of privacy and if you’re feeling totally anti-social, there’s an even smaller room with six leather strata-loungers with little drink holders and a flat screen TV. And if you want to get your groove on, try Friday and Saturday nights with Hillary Smith, Soul-Train, Vanilla Pop, and others.

Sauce Liquid Lounge/ Raw: These conjoined

bars juxtapose moods – Raw has cool overtones and Sauce definitely feels hot, particularly on Wednesday nights when the salsa dancers come out of the woodwork to see who has the dirtiest moves in the smallest amount of space. It’s packed and sweaty, but you’ll get to see why Albuquerque is the salsa capital of the United States.

Scalo: Il Bar, the casual

attachment to the more upscale Northern Italian Grill, hosts a variety of music of the more mellow ilk on Tuesday nights – jazz, blues, and the occasional gypsy swing darlings Le Chat Lunatique can be heard while nibbling an antipasto platter or wood fired pizza and sipping a glass of Fourplay.

Zinc Cellar Bar: This speakeasy style gig, complete with red light glow has mostly live droll musical acts on Thursday and Saturday nights such as the Sinatrastyle Tommy Gearhart and His Trio, Memphis P. Tails, or siren songstresses such as Nora McMahon.

Occasionally DJ Eldon will show up and spin.

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Ok. I did it. I bought the booty pop panties.

It was too easy not to and now I anticipate their arrival in the mail. Thanks to Caroline Ryder, the style editor at Variety’s blog stylphile.com, I may no longer suffer from deflated ass syndrome (DAS). According to Ryder, whose fashion wisdom and articulation I admire, the booty pop panty is a recent merchandising concept from Sweet Apparel owned by Susan Bloomstone and Lisa Reisler. The two women are out to save us from an increasingly popular and painful form of augmentation surgery with panties that make you pop.

Beyond padded underwear, what is a girl to wear this summer? Well, if a girl finds herself in Albuquerque instead of say, L.A., she can head up to Moni V’s at Wyoming and Academy, where she will find designer clothes, jewelry, shoes, and handbags from designers like Tarina Tarantino, Wasabi Jewelry, Nanette Lepore, Ella Moss, Rebeca Taylor, Twisted Heart, Tory Burch, Plenty

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now. She’s fond of the maxi dress from Ella Moss, a graceful and flowing floor length cotton dress with spaghetti straps that can be worn anytime of day or night. Monica also recommends the 7 For all Mankind bermudas, which hit somewhere between a traditional bermuda and a capri—very cute; I want some. Jumpsuits of the glamour mechanic variety are uber popular right now, but Moni V’s is not carrying that particular item. “I like to carry high quality fabrics and comfortable clothing that I think people will wear here in Albuquerque, but I do purchase collectibles that push the envelope.”

Moni V’s is a pink and white plush fairy princess land for girls who have some disposable income or pretend to. Expansive floor to ceiling windows facing the Sandias shed light on the preciously pretty and—I dare say—feminine selection that owner Monica Vigil has lining the walls, folded on tables and stacked on shelves. Six unique chandeliers hang from a pale pink exposed ceiling, glittering down on plump velour chairs, and blonde wood floors.

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Unfortunately for all of us, the baby doll/ trapeze dresses and tops are still coming out in billowing droves, making the not-at-all pregnant woman look entirely pregnant.

Monica is tired of this particular statement and so am I. She is hopeful they will be out come next spring. Until then we are left with these jolly forms and the perpetuation of the skinny jean, a jean that looks fine on about 1% of the population.

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colored clothes and big florals for the summer and resort season, a flashback to the 80s. Gladiator sandals, all the rage right now, will maintain a strong presence through the fall, where we will also find leopard cardigans in your grandpa’s style. Guiding colors for fall are purple and emerald.

Monica shares with me that these colors can make it difficult, but nevertheless she is excited about her fall line-up, especially some coats and the cashmere leopard print cardigan by Rebecca Taylor.

As I am leaving Moni V’s my eye catches a must-have Tarina Tarantino necklace from her Alice In Wonderland Collection.

Tarantino’s shiny, glitter-girl jewelry is hard not to love and I think that the lucite heart on a chain that is shiny like lipgloss—a piece she calls queen of hearts—is just the thing I need. That and of course the booty pop panties that are in the mail. * When the panties finally arrive it takes me a while to try them on. I can’t quite convince myself to take the risk, however, when I do, there is no arguing with them. They work. Whether or not I will wear them remains to be seen. While they augment in just the right places, I have looming concerns about the very real aspect of false advertising.

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By Sidsel Overgaard To those of us who don’t get to spend every day on a movie set, your life, sir/ma’am, seems pretty frickin’ glamorous. Celebrities, stunt men, explosions, fame, and glory! But…what’s that you say? A lot of standing around? Endless meeting of other people’s demands? Getting transplanted every few months to a strange new place? Ok, so maybe it’s not an entirely stress-free lifestyle. Lucky for you, there are plenty of people in Albuquerque who feel your pain(s) and would love nothing more than to help you stretch out and silence the noise.

As a former NYC businesswoman, Meta Hirschl has some idea what it’s like to run the rat race with your spirit dragging behind in the dust. After years of consulting, teaching, and tedious technical writing, she moved to Albuquerque in 1994 “for the expansiveness,” discovered yoga, and never looked back. In 2001, before the powers that be even bothered to turn on all the Downtown streetlights at night, Hirschl took a leap of faith and opened YogaNow in an historic building at 215 Gold Street. Since then, she’s seen plenty of change in the form of new stores, restaurants, lofts, streetlights that come on when they’re supposed to, and—especially— the film industry, which has been known to set up shop on her block now and again.

Proximity to the set and a promise of quiet have lured many a crew member through the doors of YogaNow, which a smiling Hirschl describes as a mirror-free “playground.” Some eventually become regulars, others come just while they’re in town. Either way, says Hirschl, the goal is to provide students with a sense of community. “I would imagine that with a lifestyle where you move all the time, you would begin to feel isolated,” she says. “It doesn’t matter that you’re only here for two months.

When you connect to yourself in a genuine way, it’s easier to connect with others. And when you’re in the studio that feeling is palpable.”

For those whose schedules don’t jive with the regular class lineup, YogaNow offers specially-arranged classes as well as private sessions on - and off - site for those who need a little extra personal attention in coping with injury or stress. And for anyone out there who’s REALLY on the verge of telling all the egos on the set where to stick it, there’s always Hirschl’s six month, 200 hour yoga teacher training session (the next one starts in October). A sweaty, meditative yoga class might be a fantastic cure for most cases of the after-hours blahs, but every once in awhile you just want someone else to do the work for you, right? That’s when you head to La Bella Spa and Salon. Owner Dawn Davide opened the doors at her original Corrales location in 2004, but thanks to its centrality, the sparkly new 8,000 square foot Uptown location is where movie folks tend to flock. And given the ten percent discount offered to all clients in the film industry (care of an arrangement with Albuquerque Studios concierge service), it’s no wonder that even Scarlett Johansson has popped in for a visit.

La Bella features 15 salon stations and 20 treatment rooms with services including massage, hydrotherapy, wraps, and body scrubs for the individual or couple. “As the only five star spa in Albuquerque,” says Uptown manager Chris Babb, “we offer amenities that aren’t too characteristic of New Mexico.” But just in case the idea of such decadence makes you a tad guilty…you can always sweat your way through one of La Bella’s yoga or pilates classes first and then hit the sauna feeling like you’ve earned it. Aaah...

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{move:run} Altitude By Sidsel Overgaard There you were: feeling good, looking like you do, getting ready to up the mileage on your daily run, when suddenly you find yourself in Albuquerque where jogging any small distance can render you boneless and wheezing. “Oh my god, did I really have that many margaritas last night?” No, son. New Mexico may not wield the punch of left coast attitude, but we make up for it with this little thing called altitude.

But no worries! You should be feeling like your gracefully trotting old self in a matter of weeks (although breathing will always be more difficult at this elevation). Exercise physiologist Jason Karp, who ran and coached in Albuquerque for two years while completing his dissertation, says the trick is to keep running, but to take it easy. “It’s better to back off a bit from how much running you do at sea-level when you first get to altitude.

The speeds of workouts will also be slower, so don’t try to run as fast as you do at sea-level.” And be nice to your body by drinking plenty of water and getting extra sleep while it works to build up an army of fancy new red blood cells to cope with the change.

One gentle place to start your Albuquerque running program, and a favorite of locals like Jane Farris (who’s been running here for 30 years) is the University of New Mexico’s North Golf Course. “This space, bordered by a quiet University neighborhood, is home to hawks, roadrunners, and rabbits.

Yet, it’s in the heart of the city, close to the University area shops and restaurants, and not too far from Downtown.” The perimeter of the course, which touches Indian School on the north and Tucker Avenue on the south, is about two miles.

But, adds Farris, “a popular paved biking and running path is adjacent to this one; great for someone who wants to take off for a longer run to the north and east.”

Another option for those who are inclined toward shade but don’t want to travel too far is the Rio Grande Valley State Park and its Paseo del Bosque Trail. The 16 mile paved trail, which stretches from Rio Bravo north to Alameda on the east side of the river, is advertised mainly as a bike trail. But a nice little tangle of natural-surface and unmarked paths under the cottonwoods alongside makes for happy running too. There are several access points; the closest to Downtown is at the Central Street Bridge, near Tingley Park. Many runners, though, opt to start at the picturesque Rio Grand Nature Center on Candelaria.

But the crown jewel of running in Albuquerque has got to be the network of trails in and around the foothills of the Sandia Mountains. Ask any serious runner where she goes when she’s got the time, and this is it. Randy Arriola, who runs the ABQ Running Shop, says one of his personal favorites is a route that leaves from the parking lot of his store on Montgomery and Tramway and heads up the Michial Emery Trail into the Elena Gallegos Open Space area. “It is a long gradual climb that takes you right to the base of the mountain. After a good rain fall, there is a running stream or two that you may pass. It was always great seeing water during the middle of a hot summer run.”

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ho, at some point, has not imagined touring with a rock and roll band?

The decadence, the depravity, the sordid bliss of the lifestyle! Of course, the very few who do end up professionals living out the rock and roll fantasy are generally quick to point out the hard realities of touring: the late nights; the strange beds; the long trips.

“A lot of the time we’ll be on the bus all day,” says Pat Sansome, guitarist for the legendary alt-rock act Wilco. “A lot of the time, the bus will park at a place that isn’t so great,” where the band will either stay in the bus, or “wander around different cities trying to kill time,” until the show.

Not so when Wilco arrived in Albuquerque for their appearance at Popejoy in June. Here, they found themselves in an Eden-like setting in the heart of the North Valley, a place that beckons anyone, not just rockers, to enjoy the music of its own perfect making.

A narrow drive is decorated with sunlight that filters through stately cottonwoods lining either side like eager sentries awaiting royalty.

The rustic charm of a few adobe buildings and a farm is sublime, an integral part of the prehistoric landscape. Free-roaming peacocks, including one rare snow white specimen, leisurely meander through the lush gardens. Welcome to Los Poblanos Inn and Cultural Center.

“It’s a rare treat to spend a day before a concert in an environment that is so beautiful,” says Sansome.

Indeed Los Poblanos is a local treasure where guests are likely to be welcomed by staff who are clearly at home in a refreshingly unpretentious place. After all, it’s New Mexico, where formality will always play second fiddle to comfort. Simple are the rooms here, they’re not overdone with the accoutrements normally associated with the Southwest; they are the Southwest. Thick adobe walls, cracked in places, closets that look like they were designed to be more purposeful in an era long gone …

Los Poblanos is the real deal, and Matt Rembe can attest. Not only can he call himself the executive director of the place, he can say this is home. Rembe’s legacy at Los Poblanos traces a childhood to memories in every room.

Before Rembe grew up here, in fact, long before, the land here was inhabited by Anasazi Indians in the 14th century. It was later settled

by Mexicans known as “Poblanos.” Eventually,

the 500-acre ranch came into the hands of Ruth and Albert Simms in the 1930s. The Simms hired John Gaw Meem to design the remodel of the ranch house and to design La Quinta. According to the Los Poblanos website, “Holstein cattle were bred and grazed on the Ranch, the original site of the Creamland Dairies complex and various experimental crops were cultivated.”And, “La Quinta was the hub of the city’s political and cultural activities for many years. Music events first hosted in its courtyard would blossom over time into the city’s well-loved June Music Festival.”

Eventually, the ranch was split up and sold to Rembe family members, who then reunited the property in 1997. They converted the ranch house to an Inn for guests, restored LaQuinta Cultural Center to its original use, and maintain the long-lived agricultural tradition.

These days, Rembe and staff have been working to coordinate fieldwork with their offerings for guests to the inn. Already the lavender plays a huge role in some of the essentials, from soaps and hand lotion to a drink that Pat Sansome is not likely to forget soon.

“My favorite memory was the lavender lemonade; it was absolutely delicious.”

Outside of sipping lavender lemonade, Sansome and bandmates were recharged by the aesthetic beauty of their surroundings. “I like to take Polaroid pictures,” says Sansome.

“And I took some amazing pictures while I was at Los Poblanos. I really love the colors that come from Polaroid, especially on intensely sunny days. I have this amazing picture of the white peacock. It turned around and opened its wings for me.” Polaroid snapshot or not, Los Poblanos is a timeless and special place to keep in mind.

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“We’ve made charter flights happen in a moment’s notice with car service on both ends, with the perfect accommodations in place including special requests such as special mattress and pillows, fresh flowers, humidifiers, specific decor, and specific food or beverage selections,” says Smith. “Assistants are sometimes in a position where they need to be two places at once in order to be sure their arrangements are in place. We alleviate this stress by being their local assistant in

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making sure things are done prior to their arrival. We have completely redecorated celebrity homes to meet special decor and color requirements, electronic requests, whatever they want.”

to make very specific arrangements for several rental cars on their own,” recalls Smith.

“However, after getting frustrated waiting three hours for cars to be delivered, they contacted us.”

As owner and president of Studio Concierge, Smith prides her company on being the best single resource for a growing client base in the thriving local entertainment scene.

Based at Albuquerque Studios, the company is an on-site, one-stop shop that saves time, money, and a whole lot of hassle. Provisions, from lodging and dining arrangements to rental cars and catering services, are delivered simply and quickly, even in sometimes unlikely circumstances.

What they wanted: a Volkswagen Jetta; a Jeep Commander with GPS navigation; a black Escalade; five Jeep Cherokees in various colors; and ten Toyota Priuses.

“We had a recent production that was trying

Mission impossible? Mission accomplished.

“We immediately ordered and got the cars delivered and checked in within the hour,” says Smith.

In crafting services designed specifically for those in the film industry, Smith began taking inventory of local businesses as she de-

veloped her own. For more than a year, she has been compiling information and making arrangements with qualified local vendors.

The relationships she developed now enable Studio Concierge to accommodate special requests and last minute changes any time of day. A client need only set up a single account with the concierge company.

“We can service all of their needs and at better rates than an individual production can receive,” says Smith. “We assist travel and transportation coordinators with all of their time-consuming changes, making special requests happen so they can do their job more efficiently. We also handle getting vehicles checked in for them, whether it be at hotels or the production office, after-hours and

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weekends. Since we also handle their hotel and corporate accommodations, they make one call to make a change on an arrival or departure and we handle everything -- travel, hotel, rental car, you name it.”

In the first eight months in business, Studio Concierge booked 5,000 car rentals and over 11,000 hotel and corporate room nights. “We are on track to exceeding these numbers this year,” says Smith.

It was when Albuquerque Studios was in its planning stages that Smith contacted Nick Smerigan with the seeds of her business plan.

“I just assumed that a concierge service was a regular thing at studios,” she recalls.

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Studios, this was not the case. Studio Concierge now enjoys the distinction of being the first on-the-lot service provider of its kind; and Albuquerque Studios likewise enjoys the distinction of being the first studio to host such a business. The mutual interests are glaringly evident.

“I have to commend Nick for having the foresight to open the door to this idea,” says Smith. “He already set the bar for studios very high, wanting to create the best studio in the world, and so the concierge idea was just another component that would help make it happen.”

Of course, Smith, a veteran of the hospitality industry, was raising her own bar. After graduating from the University of North

Carolina, Smith went to work for the president of a large real estate company. While she enjoyed real estate, she really wanted to own her own business, thus, corporate housing would become her new forte.

After relocating to Albuquerque in 1991, she established Southwest Suites, which became popular with a rising number of corporate clients that were also relocating here. Still in business, the company offers extended-stay accommodations at a wide variety of local lodgings. As Smith honed her client management skills, she began offering additional amenities not typically associated with simple lodging facilities—courier services, grocery shopping and, yes, even real estate searches.

So when much of the entertainment industry

came knocking on New Mexico’s door, Smith wanted to be among the first to answer. She was already fairly poised to do so as the emerging entertainment business offered a natural extension of the business model she already had in place.

“We extended our services to serve productions,” she says, “and since these are not your typical clients, we branched out to offer different kinds of lodging and services and extensive concierge.”

In fact, the company continues to branch out as its database of vendors expands far beyond the typical service providers normally associated with a concierge.“There is really not a lot we aren’t capable of providing,” says Smith. www.miscpubs.com

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Production Central ABQ, in association with Tunnel Post / Santa Monica, has created a full service Post Production facility in downtown Albuquerque. We specialize in high-end picture finishing—taking projects through offline editorial to 2K finishing—and every step in between. In the same building, Sound Central ABQ offers complete post sound services.

Think of us as the producer’s toolkit for post, offering a wide range of services, the utmost attention to detail, and a keen eye for delivering the best bang for the buck. And remember, now the big finish on your project comes with a big pay-off, 25% rebate on your post-production budget.

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Fully Equipped Sound Recording Studio Sound Design & Editorial Dialogue Editing ADR Music Recording Music Editing Pre-Dub & Track Prep 5.1 Mixing & Mastering Sound Deliverables

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Costumes | Craft Services | Directing

boom form & function listings guide Willie, Ricola 505-884-8675 cell 940-882-0669 ricolawill@hotmail.com

Wardrobe Supervisor Hollingsworth, Val 505-261-0075 foto66@swcp.com

Woolley, Lyne 505-332-2646

Craft Services

Key Costumer/Key Set Costumer

Assistant Craft Service

Miller, Kelly 505-344-5875 cell 505-934-4020 kelly@kellymillercreations.com

Bell, Mark 505-622-1434 cell 575.228-4236 colvp56@yahoo.com

Moore, Daniela 505-265-5045 cell 505-730-1969 daniela415@yahoo.com

Fair, Brooke N. 505-315-1263 brookefairproductions@yahoo.com

Sandarin, Claire 505-660-2513 clairesandarin@hotmail.com

Giesler, Jim 505-353-0975 cell 505-907-4185 squeeze1969@hotmail.com

Seamstress Agoyo, Pilar 505-424-0206 sixthsenseclothing@hotmail.com

Gingery, Jennifer 505-350-7312 gingerj7@hotmail.com

Chapman, Debra 505-455-3389 cell 505-670-6059

Gregory, Siusla 505-758-8828 cell 505-770-5558 glargory@yahoo.com

Hambuchen, Andrea 505-820-1753 cell 646-269-2648 ande@designbyande.com

Guerra, Wellyhem 505-474-0218 cell 505-469-8006 wellcome_92@hotmail.com

Trujillo, Paula 505-438-0204 cell 505-501-4740 prtsantafe@aol.com

Haag, Paul 505-480-9149

Stylist Buyer

Lorr, Michelle 505-983-5759 cell 505-310-5648

Meyer-Niehof, Gilda 505-982-7004 fax 505-982-7005 gilda@coyoacan.com

Lujan, Johnnie 505-622-7220 cell 818-209-2722 JohnnieHector@hotmail.com

Tailor/Cutter/Draper

Mantas, Vassillios 505-690-3775 cell 505-775-3777

Norton, Daniel 512-445-2969

Barada, Sergio 505-205-0311 sbarada@comcast.net Zeller, Evelyn 505-447-2519 cell 719-989-7612 rioszeller@yahoo.com

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Shane, John 505-471-4965 cell 505-613-3180 carabogacoty@hotmail.com

Simmet, Karla 505-831-0295 cell 505-907-4185 karla2ul@netzero.net

Sanchez, Thomas “A+�

505-899-6817 cell 505-259-2065 tomasproductions@cs.com

Sneesby, John 505-610-6319 jsneesby8@comcast.net

Valenzuela, Dianna 505-877-3863 cell 505-220-2591 valenzuela_d@ips.edu

Van Allen, Lisa 505-660-9330 lvanallen@aol.com

Key Craft Service Berkes, Tom 505-424-8000 cell 505-690-2220 tomberkes@hotmail.com Curry, Mitty 505-281-5404 cell 505-249-9904 randy.curry@worldnet.att.net Edlund, Colin 512-751-1804 cdedlend@yahoo.com Hendry, Jon 505-471-6993 cell 505-670-7381 www.iatse480.santafe.org Hickman, Margaret 310-450-3034 cell 505-421-1377 potagechef@aol.com JF Craft & Catering/ Atrisco LLC Joe Fiske 512-917-9123 cell 505-243-0003 JCFISKE@aol.com Lotreck, Dale 505-757-3022 cell 505-690-2458 d0092@aol.com Lucas, Carl 505-623-5660 cell 575-317-4552 mojorising@cableone.net Matthews, Carmen 505-359-3326 cell 505-693-6049 matthews@plateautel.net Perkins, Patricia 505-473-1568 cell 425-750-8101 GetCraftService@aol.com

Walker, Wesley 505-679-2699 cell 505-430-8463

Zefowski, Jeane 505-747-6735 cell 505-692-1035 jzekowski@cybermesa.com

Directing Director Blacklake Productions Arlo N. Rosner 505-216-1104 cell 310-341-3354 www.blacklakeproductions.com Chavez, Michael A. 505-670-0522 cell 818-469-0483 michaelchavez09@earthlink.net Hudson, Erin 650-380-8601 cell 650-380-8601 www.rotationfilms.com Jansons, Jocelyn 310-699-9951 cell 505-984-0322 jjansons@mac.com Julesworks Stephen Rubin 505-310-9997 www.julesworks.com Mackenzie, Christine E. 505-466-6057 Christl@higherspeed.net Miller, Michael L. 505-266-5346 cell 505-604-3408 mlmiller@9point.com

Construction | Costumes

boom form & function listings guide Lovato, Michael 505-792-9226 cell 505-463-0000 michael_151@hotmail.com

Mabry, Gregory 505-758-7897 cell 505-737-0567 riverhouse@newmex.com Maloney, Michael 505-982-1529 cell 505-670-2663

McCreary, Abbie 505-643-0351 cell 831-234-6208 McGee, Keith 818-905-5302 cell 310-553-9227

Meda, Pete 505-699-5170 peteage@yahoo.com Miller, Mark 505-471-4292 505-603-9482 cosmeelers@cybermesa.com

Moffitt, Randy 505-262-2508 cell 505-362-3476 randymoffitt2@earthlink.com Morales, Lawrence 505-994-4753 cell 505-269-9679

Ornelas Jr., Jesus 808-381-7211 Peach, John 505-982-8646 cell 505-690-3413

Phillips, David 505-898-4564 cell 505-239-9262 dwphillips7660@hotmail.com Powell, Thomas 505-873-1282 unfinityorbust@cs.com

Rexroat, Ron 505-852-2141 Reyes, Eduardo 505-438-0940 cell 505-490-1811

Reyes, Jorge 505-424-3976 cell 505-913-9092 Sanchez, Luciano 505-994-2988 cell 505-823-1885 grampadragon@aol.com

Sandoval, Nathaniel 505-934-2200 Sharkey, Richard 505-586-9969 800-992-2086

Slade, Bart 505-453-0863 cell 505-228-0204 Stielstra, Loren 505-256-4592 cell 505-306-7913 leskef@msn.com

Stinson, Brian 505-737-5268 bksplaza@Isplaza.org Stroope, Travis 505-264-5003 cell 505-401-5327

Summers, Matthew 505-424-3368 cell 505-977-3371

White, Tobias 505-247-9387 cell 505-604-9924 tobywhite@yahoo.com

Utility Tech Gonzales, Nicholas 505-270-4166 Harris, Ted 505-270-3670 cell 505-897-5769 Hensel, Allison 505-319-2212 ahensel@hotmail.com Marshall, Jonathan 505-897-6372 cell 505-217-8809 jonshell2001@yahoo.com Ornelas Sr., Jesus 505-836-3858 cell 505-203-0129 Tucker, Sylvester 505-604-3025

Costumes Ager/Dyer Chavez, Wynema 505-792-1648 wynemachavez@yahoo.com

Thompson, David 505-982-6492 cell 505-603-0862

Twocrow, Jim 505-410-9576

Costume Designer

Tytor, Lance 505-275-3635 cell 505-328-0565

Ubl, Jon 505-776-1090 cell 505-776-2423

Bjerke, Birgitta 505-757-6119 cell 505-471-6400

Vigil, Steve 505-712-1094 cell 505-804-3803

Wheeler, John 505-899-4806 cell 505-890-6719 jwenviropure@msn.com

Bernay, Lynn 505-471-2798 cell 505-231-0754 bronxbabe306@aol.com

Camevale, Jerry 505-994-3914 cell 310-339-1278 jerrycarnevale@msn.com Poore, Lahly 505-473-9803 cell 505-231-2427 Rampulla, Andrea 505-421-0038 cell 505-429-8515 aroserampulla@gmail.com

Rogers, Paula 480-855-4229 cell 480-223-8630 paulakrogers@yahoo.com www.filmfatales.net Smith, Cathy A. 505-438-9852 cell 505-470-6650 medicinemountain@gmail.com www.cathyasmith.com Wood, Durinda 505-466-7744 cell 323-660-6611 rindw@sbcglobal.net

Costumer/Set Costumer Booth, Bradford 505-263-3707 Deering, John 505-243-9160 cell 505-681-7497 JCDLASS@aol.com Duval, Michelle 505-615-1547 switzerville@yahoo.com Kouri, Lindsay 505-238-7532 lindsay_kouri@hotmail.com Langhofer, Bobbi 505-856-7729 cell 818-515-6833 dlanghofer@aol.com Lash, Elizabeth 505-298-2567 cell 505-760-4941 Llash483@gmail.com Lewis, Stephani 505-238-0699 steph325@hotmail.com Moody, Melissa 505-255-1549 cell 505-264-1280 Rael, Lora 505-259-0898 LoraERael@msn.com

Roberts, Garrett 928-301-5381 kickingmule@kachina.net Trujillo, Dixie 505-877-2030 dtrunm@yahoo.com

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boom form & function listings guide Construction Construction Coordinator Armanino, Rodney 213-304-3256 skidad@linkunet.com Barth, Jim 505-897-3343 cell 818-389-5486 ecorso@earthlink.net James Gill Construction Jim Gill 505-474-5645 cell 505-699-4404 aiello@hubwest.com

Newren, Kirk 505-898-1231 cell 505-379-1467 Purtill, Mark 505-662-2267 cell 505-690-3023 purt911@aol.com Torres, Joseph 505-586-1289 cell 575-770-3529 jiwalani@yahoo.com Twocrow, Asa Luke 505-410-2151 fixed4916@yahoo.com Windisch, Chris 505-898-8649 cell 505-269-9054 cebudes@msn.com

Construction Foreman/Gang Boss Blagg, Robin 505-995-8434 cell 505-603-0560 blaggs@cybermesa.com Bradley, Stephen 505-586-1124 Caffrey, Shawn 505-757-6015 cell 505-780-0708 pecoskid@cybermesa.com Johnson, Arlen 505-982-0756 cell 505-577-7432 Mothershead, Robert 505-466-3648 cell 505-920-3315

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Winder, Joel 505-896-1835 cell 505-241-9267 orlyk68@msn.com

Plasterer/Adobe Masonry Murillo, Jesus 970-524-7110 cell 505-239-3433

Propmaker/Carpenter ABQ Manufacturing, Inc Jessica Bell 505-338-2402 505-889-3837 info@abqmfg.com www.abqmfg.com Union/Guild affiliations: AED, AIA, SME, PCI & FMA Our services suited for set & prop design, include metal, wood, plastic & foam cutting, machining & powder coating

Alexander, Rio 505-992-0477 cell 505-310-1477 Apodaca, Monserrat 505-242-6290 cell 505-440-4718 Arellanes, Eric 505-920-3742 Arndt, Arthur 505-884-4796 Badri-Maharaj, Raj 505-983-5759 cell 505-310-2801 Berardi, Vincent 505-203-2272 Blagg, Levi 505-995-8434 cell 505-642-8287 Braddock, Stephen 505-424-3368 cell 505-690-2725 Braunstein, Judah 505-306-0624 Brown, Cisco 505-473-4161 cell 512-436-1218 ciscowb@hotmail.com

Carlson, Don 505-986-8777 cell 505-660-9873 Carpenter, Nathan 505-670-7283

Chapman, Thomas 505-455-3389 cell 505-670-6059 arroyodesign@juno.com Chavez, Victor 505-867-6348 cell 505-238-4975

Christie, J 505-474-8287 cell 928-699-3843 Cook, Kenneth 505-891-0613 cell 505-720-6583

Copley, Lucas 505-883-3617 cell 505-804-7337 lucascopley@yahoo.com Crouch, Cliff 505-896-7802 cell 505-470-2443 inthesticks@put.networks.net

Crowe, Eli 505-780-0774 Duran, Meliton 505-922-8734 cell 505-770-4495 dmh1974@peoplepc.com

Feight, Rolland 505-792-8715 cell 505-401-8894 Feight, Matthew 505-792-8715 cell 505-770-1457 mfeight@hotmail.com

Gallegos, Chris 505-982-9243 cell 505-577-4882 Gibson, Darren 505-438-7161 cell 505-699-2156 kiwi@cybermesa.com

Gray, Douglas 505-424-9146 cell 505-690-1567 lighthrustone@earthlink.net

Green, Damon 505-232-9456 cell 818-378-9473 nomadweb@yahoo.com

Green, Tim 505-232-9456 cell 406-750-1040 Greenawalt, Taylor 505-246-0233

Harris, David Glenn 505-400-0978 House, Robert 505-281-2885 cell 505-980-8600 zephdog@comcast.net

Hurff, Richard 505-410-6702 ric2166@myway.com Ing, Dexter 505-770-5996

Jagers, Michael 505-880-2369 cell 505-315-1384 mcjagers@msn.com Johnson, Peter 505-424-4774 cell 505-930-0448 wwsd@sisna.com

Kahn, Steve 505-988-3403 King, Sky 505-873-8682 cell 505-328-7238 actionking@aol.com

Kluzik-Larsen, Amy 505-332-4434 cell 505-228-0691 Lehn, Jonathan 505-699-2002 lehngentlemanjack@yahoo.com

Linderkamp, Andrew 505-315-7537 alndrkmp@yahoo.com Lloyd, Scott 505-249-8969

Longueira, Michael 505-466-2327 cell 505-470-0759 michael_151@hotmail.com

Art Department | Casting | Concierge

boom form & function listings guide Kelly Miller Creations Kelly Miller 505-344-5875 cell 505-934-4020 www.kellymillercreations.com

Kim, Ester 505-379-7269 estergen80@yahoo.com Landeau, Lise 505-363-7230 lisalandeau@hotmail.com

Lewis, Sara 505-670-8684 saralewi@gmail.com

Simpson, Inc., Barbara E. 505-982-5845 cell 505-690-2301 Bsimant@aol.com

Sisson, Joel 505-699-2246 joearted@yahoo.com Sletteland, Bjarne 505-466-1436 cell 310-770-8223 Bjarne@cnsp.com

Walsh, Benjamin 505-615-2948 ombenza@hotmail.com

Long, Deborah 505-737-0724 cell 505-670-6568 debsmark@yahoo.com

Maes, Anthony 505-989-9830 cell 505-470-8299

Wamego, Anthony 505-316-6101 cell 505-231-3058 reelndn@hotmail.com

Wilson, Ashley 505-795-8459 awilsoniva@hotmail.com

Miller, Kevin 575-690-7136 kmmiller_3@yahoo.com

Miller, Nichole 505-466-3029 cell 505-310-2888 globalalchemy@yahoo.com

Set Dressing Buyer

Moravec, Cee 505-470-7409 cell 505-690-3969

Mueller, Robert 505-319-1527 rob@lobo.net Myszka, Michael 505-903-0210 mtm3842@hotmail.com

Painter, Chris 575-770-7336 cell 505-758-1933 cpaint@zianet.com Plunket, Scott 505-757-8946 cell 505-412-1867 scott@scottplunket.com

Ray, Garrett 505-292-1196 cell 505-239-9377

Brazy, Robin 505-820-9334 cell 505-470-4465 robinbrazy@yahoo.com Cohen, Matthew 505-977-6509 cell 505-244-0939 Holyoke, Mary 505-620-9556 unholyoke@hotmail.com Jones, Candida 505-660-0100 jonescan@gmail.com Kelly Miller Creations Kelly Miller 505-344-5875 cell 505-934-4020 www.kellymillercreations.com Kim, Ester 505-379-7269 estergen80@yahoo.com Moravec, Cee 505-470-7409 cell 505-690-3969 Morrison, Amy 505-989-1048 cell 505-310-3666 caballo@cybermesa.com

Pfau, Wil 505-660-6167 wpfau@comcast.net Terrell, Shana 505-307-8977 shanamarie007@msn.com

Storyboard Artist Fitzgerald, Dan 505-466-1186 fitzgeraldmgt@comcast.net

Casting Casting Director 505 Studio Works, LLC Jo Edna Boldin, C.S.A. 505-776-8062 cell 866-659-7064 casting@newmex.com Darlene Hansen Casting Darlene Hansen 505-268-0530 cell 505-514-5149 vivhansen@msn.com Filmsavage Gwyn Savage 505-331-0177 gwyn@filmsavage.com Gabel, Elizabeth 505-798-0546 cell 505-203-0884 egabel@ms.com Kathryn Brink Casting Kathryn Brink 505-266-6211 cell 505-263-5105 kathymbrink@aol.com Keener Cherrix, Mary 505-474-0119 cell 828-230-6692 cherrixcasting@aol.com Ken Scott’s Cowboy Up Casting Kenneth Scott 505-992-4978 cell 505-795-8532 kenscottsantafe@msn.com Midthunder, Angelique 505-424-9001 cell 818-613-9208 midthunder@sbcglobal.net www.midthunder.com

New Mexico Casting, LLC Roxanne Hennig 505-231-0181 nmcasting@yahoo.com New Mexico Actors Guide, The Shenita Moore 310-772-8209 www.newmexicoactorsguide.com

Shari Rhodes Casting Shari Rhodes 505-795-1192 sharirhodes@earthlink.net

Casting Extras Filmsavage Gwyn Savage 505-331-0177 gwyn@filmsavage.com Gabel, Elizabeth 505-798-0546 cell 505-203-0884 egabel@msn.com Keener Cherrix, Marty 505-474-0119 cell 828-230-6692 cherrixcasting@aol.com New Mexico Casting, LLC Roxanne Hennig 505-231-0181 nmcastingdatabase.com On Location Casting Tina Kerr 505-366-9863 cell 310-770-7492 castsubmissions@aol.com www.onlocationcasting.net

Concierge Starlight Celebrity Concierge Lainie S. Quirk 505-263-8292 fax 505-286-2645 concierge@sedevents.com www.sedevents.com/conceirge Studio Concierge Services Joyce Smith 505-227-2222 fax 505-227-2225 studio_concierge@abqstudios.com www.abqstudios.com/concservices

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Art Department

boom form & function listings guide Graphic Design mmg dezign Michelle M Guiterrez 505-577-4556 michelle@mmgdezign.com

Lead Set Dresser Gonzales, Severino 505-401-9119 severino02@yahoo.com Kaffer, Lelan 505-983-3124 cell 505-670-1392 Lewis, Scott 505-833-2754 cell 505-249-1028 jamofsam@yahoo.com Magestro, Susan 505-989-8889 cell 505-795-6522 susan@bytehead.com

Goradia, Ram 505-220-1666 rrgoradia@hotmail.com Moravec, Cee 505-470-7409 cell 505-690-3969 Paynter, Rhonda 323-855-4223 cell 505-421-1377 rhondapaynter@aol.com Scroggins, Ian 505-830-9285 ian@slorr.com Sisson, Joel 505-699-2246 joearted@yahoo.com

Walsh, Benjamin 505-615-2948 cell 505-615-2928 ombenza@hotmail.com

McLoughlin, Edward 505-983-4580 cell 505-310-3289 eagmcl@earthlink.net

Zaug, Colin 505-975-6438 czaug@excite.com

Sisson, Joel 505-699-2246 joearted@yahoo.com

Alsina, Gustav 505-351-2005 cell 505-699-5159 scenography@cybermesa.com

Stair, Spencer 505-501-2624 cell 550-577-6310 spencerstair@yahoo.com

On Set Dresser Bianco, Roseanne 505-269-7158 cell 505-577-6310 usnavyblumom@yahoo.com

Production Designer

Arancio-Parrain, R.A. 206-778-0263 sunlune@gmail.com Duran, Mark Alan 505-232-9319 cell 505-690-6727 markaduran@gmail.com

Delara, Bryan 505-459-2142

Hooper, Greg 661-313-1741 Ghoop@sbcglobal.net

Duddy, James 505-265-6841 cell 505-459-8046 james@slorr.com

Magestro, Susan 505-989-8889 cell 505-795-6522 susan@bytehead.com

Dunnill, Ginger 505-603-5951 cell 505-438-2772 mcpandora@hotmail.com

Organized Intentions Inc Thomas E. Azzari 505-776-2885 cell 818-400-3098 thoe830@aol.com

Eilar, Gary 505-899-1665 cell 505-400-0777

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Perrin, Bryce 505-989-1277 cell 310-488-8506

Peter Grivas Design Peter Grivas 505-466-4246 cell 505-577-2090 PTGrivas@aol.com

Set Director Graham, John K.D. 505-982-8017 cell 505-491-5442 john.wickedkittenpictures@gmail.com J.D. Jacoby Set Design & Art Direction J.D. Jacoby cell 310-270-6767 jd_jacoby@hotmail.com Morrison, Amy 505-310-3666 caballo@cybermesas.com Moses At Home Christie Williams 505-291-5400 www.mosesathome.com Perrin, Bryce 505-989-1277 cell 310-488-8506 Pfau, Wil 505-660-6167 wpfau@comcast.net

Set Designer/Draftperson Frantz, Marisa 505-780-0328 marisafrantz@yahoo.com Sletteland, Bjarne 505-466-1436 cell 310-770-8223 Bjarne@cnsp.com

Set Dresser/Swing Gang Barnes, Bradley 505-982-5858 cell 505-501-4873 bradley.barnes@IATSE480.com Barnes, Greg 505-453-8477 cell 505-293-5602 gbarnes02@yahoo.com Barrera, Pierre 505-471-4942 cell 505-795-9975 pbarrera11@comcast.net Becker, Regina 505-758-0538

Becker, Robert 505-865-7532 cell 505-463-7569 Bradley, Craig 505-455-1225 cell 505-577-6984 craigbradley@hotmail.com Cheatham, Lance 505-920-7968 lancecheatham@comcast.net Cohen, Matthew 505-977-6509 cell 505-244-0939 Connell, Sage 505-776-8075 illuminatedemmette@comcast.net Delara, Bryan 505-459-2142

Denike, Brian 505-459-1148 cell 505-459-1146 brian.c.denike@gmail.com Everett, Chadney 505-474-5319 cell 505-231-1101 lowdigital@hotmail.com

Fitzgerald, Jason 505-319-1932 eppbot@yahoo.com Goodell, Joel 505-730-7730 cell 505-867-5877

Griswold, Graham 505-984-1104 Hanrahan, Mike 505-890-3028 cell 505-235-3369

Hoffman, Gary 505-400-6895 Holyoke, Mary 505-620-9556 unholyoke@hotmail.com

Keffer, Lelan 505-983-3124 cell 505-670-1392

Actor/Director Services | Animals | Art Department

boom form & function listings guide LNJ, LLC Linnea Sands 505-883-1669 cell 505-261-8350 mauisands@comcast.net Thompson, Rick “Curly” 505-832-6292 cell 505-720-6176

Animals Animal Rentals Crossroads Ranch & Rodeo Production Co. Mark Sanchez 970-739-3851 cell 970-749-4984 crossroadsrodeocompany@yahoo.com Espinosa Equestrian, LTD Pattie Salas 505-934-2752

Animal Rentals/Training M. Bulls Marc Bluett 505-864-8888 Santa Fe Stagecoach Line Tim Carroll 505-685-4369 cell 505-470-5361 tcmoviehorses@gmail.com Thompson Enterprises JJ Thompson 505-474-6653 cell 505-603-9260 leibniz@cybermesa.com Western Movie Horses LLC Ray Heiser 505-803-6273 cell 406-320-1333 westernmoviehorses@yahoo.com www.westernmoviehorses.com

Animal Trainers Avian Ambassadors-Flights and Education Sid Price 505-281-5210 cell 505-281-2705 sidprice@avianambassadors.com www.AvianAmbassadors.com Heidi’s Canine Services Heidi Kingsbury 505-577-1826 cell 505-577-1826 hkwoof@aol.com www.heidiscanineservices.com

Jolley, Gus 505-424-9924 cell 719-429-5030 flaitsa@yahoo.com Roy, Tom 505-543-8107 cell 505-531-2703 crhughes04@msn.com

Livestock Coordinator Crossroads Ranch & Rodeo Production Co. Mark Sanchez 970-739-3851 cell 970-749-4984 crossroadsrodeocompany@yahoo.com Espinosa Equestrian Enterprises, LTD Pattie Salas 505-934-2752 Lone Butte Ranch Livestock & Stunts Russ Dillen 505-930-9384 505-473-9384 russ@santafewest.com

Art Department Art Department Coordinator Angel In Limbo Productions Deanne May 505-699-2289 cell 505-699-2289 www.deannemay.com Denike, Brian 505-459-1148 cell 505-459-1146 brian.c.denike@gmail.com Gawron, Lynette 505-992-8187 cell 505-670-4423 lyngawron@msn.com Jones, Candida cell 505-660-0100 jonescan@gmail.com Lewis, Sara 505-670-8684 saralewi@gmail.com

Road Runner Tours, LTD Nancy Burch 505-377-6416 tours@rtours.com www.rtours.com

Santa Fe Stagecoach Line Tim Carroll 505-685-4369 cell 505-470-5361 tcmoviehorses@gmail.com

Marquez, Roberta 310-486-7884 robbymqz@yahoo.com

Western Movie Horses, LLC Ray Heiser 505-803-6273 cell 406-320-1333 westernmoviehorses@yahoo.com www.westernmoviehorses.com

McWilliams, Vicki M. 505-884-4219 cell 505-553-4056 www.vmsquared.com

Wranglers Crossroads Ranch & Rodeo Production Co. Mark Sanchez 970-739-3851 cell 970-739-3851 crossroadsrodeocompany@yahoo.com Western Trooper Productions David Carrico 505-832-6292 cell 505-720-6176 westerntrooper@ckt.net

Marsh, Amy cell 405-314-9873 amyemarsh@gmail.com Mayfield, Heidi 505-660-8829 hmayfield@verizon.net

Selinger, Liv 505-670-9891

Ursula Coyote Photography Ursula Coyote 505-983-5205 cell 505-501-1821 www.ursulacoyote.com

Art Director Alsina, Gustav 505-351-2005 cell 505-699-5159 scenography@cybermesa.com Baca, David 505-474-7402 davidbacaart@gmail.com

Barnes, Guy 505-988-7635 cell 505-231-2147 ozbarnes@aol.com Duran, Mark Alan 505-232-9319 cell 505-690-6727 markaduran@gmail.com Frantz, Marisa 505-780-0328 marisafrantz@yahoo.com Hooper, Greg 661-313-1741 www.gregoryshooper.com Maurette, Markus 505-235-4281 imarkus23@earthlink.net Morrison, Amy 505-310-3666 caballo@cybermesas.com Oberlander, James 505-983-4358 cell 505-927-7943 jfoberlander@gmail.com Pennington, Matthew 505-920-3744 miraguey@gmail.com

Peter Grivas Design Peter Grivas 505-466-4246 cell 505-577-2090 PTGrivas@aol.com Sletteland, Bjarne 505-466-1436 cell 310-770-8223 Bjarne@cnsp.com

Vane-Williams, Naython 310.663.3329 naythonvane@yahoo.com Zeller, Ben 505-447-2513 cell 505-643-5110 benzeller@starband.net

Food Stylist Jacobson, Lori 505-899-4173 cell 505-280-9635 www.lorijacobson.com

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Accommodatiions |Accounting | Actor/Director Services

boom form & function listings guide Accommodations Hotel Albuquerque @ Old Town Molly Mooney 505-843-6300 fax 505-842-8426 mmooney@hhandr.com www.hhandr.com Nativo Lodge Margarite Baca 505-798-4300 fax 505-798-4305 mbaca@hhand.com www.hhandr.com

Accounting Payroll Accounting Eldridge, Amy 505-856-2227 cell 505-453-7127 moviebabe32@aol.com Fearon, Laura 917-674-6856 lmfearon@gmail.com Lowery, Brent 505-417-1421 cell 505-604-8847 blowery600@hotmail.com RWD Business Services Debra Chase 505-884-0391 cell 505-350-8710 debrachase@comcast.net

Production Accounting Akiya, Gaetano 505-385-2867 fax 509-694-8749 gsakiya@gmail.com Angel In Limbo Productions Deanne May 505-699-2289 cell 213-247-0647 demay415@msn.com www.deannemay.com Bradshaw, Sherrie 505-898-9739 cell 505-363-4884 sherbradshaw@aol.com Cannon, Alison 505-758-1471 cell 310-467-3071 doubleadogie@aol.com

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Gonzales, Marissa 505-831-2233 cell 505-620-0292 gonzalesmarissa@hotmail.com Hawkins, Amy 505-690-6099 desertcat71@earthlink.net Katz-Stevens, Harriet 575-373-8514 cell 505-635-9373 lclass@mac.com Knudson, Stacey 505-323-1590 cell 505-307-6649 smksmitty@prodigy.net McKeon, Meg 505-980-4636 mckeonmeg@yahoo.com Means, Margaret 818-203-6024 maggiemeans@sbcglobal.net

Melito, David 505-918-0322 cell 505-918-0322 melitoman@gmail.com www.davidmelito.com Ortiz, Yvonne 505-888-7977 cell 505-270-2008 yvonne_13@comcast.net

Seif, Debbie 505-474-0988 highdesertsage@msn.com Street, Eileen 505-988-1225 cell 505-470-3300 eileenrst@comcast.net

Traxler, Joy 505-984-1669 cell 505-310-1660 Vandegriff, Vic 505-989-3733 cell 505-603-1567 ziapacific@earthlink.net

Yancheski, Kerry 505-603-1662 moneyshaker@gmail.com

Actor/Director Services Acting Coach 2B Or Not 2B Actor Studio Michael Ray Lloyd 505-255-4707 sonnyboy@actingworldbooks.com www.actingworldbooks.org Collier, Kathleen-M.ED 505-247-2580 cell 505-328-1625 trcol@comcast.net Dhu Studi, Maura 505-690-4791 fax 505-986-9698 Mauradhu@aol.com Graebner, Jim 505-262-9838 cell 505-280-4070 ggraebner@comcast.net LNJ, LLC Linnea Sands 505-883-1669 cell 505-261-8350 mauisands@comcast.net Ovations Film Studio Corrine or Steve Willmon 505-610-5945 cell 505-319-7780 ovationstudio@aol.com www.ovationsfilm.com Pink Adobe Productions Loren Haynes 505-992-1811 cell 213-944-4663 kabbalah72@mac.com www.pinkadobeproductions.com Sol Arts Kristen Loree 505-710-7724 kristen@solarts.org www.solarts.org The Natural Act Price Hall 505-286-4272 cell 713-201-1245 thenaturalact@yahoo.com www.thenaturalact.com Wholelife Coaching Mary Beth Shewan 505-292-6478 galcoach@aol.com www.wholelifecoaching.com

Lipson Zambello, Emily-CST 505-907-2584 MHELEN27@aol.com

Choregraphy Yogamoves Rima Miller 505-989-1072 cell 505-690-2124 rimamiller@mac.com www.yogamoves.com

Dialect Coach Sol Arts Kristen Loree 505-710-7724 kristen@solarts.org www.solarts.org

Translator Bearheart Productions Diana L. Thatcher 505-982-5773 fax 505-982-5773 goanna_2001@yahoo.com www.lhrDrebuch.com Enchante Catherine Y. Fridey 505-883-0094 cell 505-252-9228 catherinefridey@comcast.net Ryan, Saville 505-989-9287 saville8@mac.com

Tutor/Studio Teacher Collier, Kathleen-M.ED 505-247-2580 cell 505-328-1625 trcol@comcast.net Cordova-Hahn, Julie “Dia�

505-514-3107 coloradodia@yahoo.com Gonzales Moench, Virginia 505-992-1424 cell 505-316-6216 Trilschl@AOL.com Graebner, Jim 505-262-9838 cell 505-280-4070 ggraebner@comcast.net Lipson Zambello, Emily-CST 505-907-2584 MHELEN27@aol.com

Contents

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form & function listings guide Accommodations

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Accounting

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Payroll Accounting Production Accounting

Actor/Director Services

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Acting Coach Choregraphy Dialect Coach Translator Tutor/Studio Teacher

Animals

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Directing

Location 10

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Director First Assistant Director Second Assistant Director Set Production Assistant

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Equipment

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Casting Director Casting Extras

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Concierge

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Construction

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Construction Coordinator Construction Foreman/Gang Boss Plasterer Adobe/Masonry Propmaker/Carpenter Utility Technician

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Best Boy Grip Dolly Grip Grips Key Grip Rigging Grip

Hair & Makeup

Massage Therapist Yoga Instructor

Photography

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Script Analyst Script Supervisor Technical Advisor Writer/Screenwriter

Sound

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Boom Operator Sound Mixer Utility Sound

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Special Effects

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Effects Foreman Effects technician Explosive & Powder Person Fire Suppression & Safety Special Effects Coordinator Special Effects Makeup/Prosthetics

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Stunt Coordinator Stunt Person

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Assistant Producer Line Producer/UPM/ Production Manager Producer

Production Office

Event planning Public Relations

Stunts

Editing

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Script & Continuity

Camera Operator Director of Photography First Assistant Camera Second Assistant Camera Steadicam Operator Still Photographer

Producing

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Public Relations

Key Scenic On Set Painters Scenic Artist Set Painter Sign Painter & Writer

Post Production

Assistant Hair Assistant Makeup Key Hair Key Makeup

Health & Wellness

Medic

Property Armorer Props/Weapons Master Assistant Prop Master Prop Master

Assistant Location Manager Location & Venue Location Manager Location Scout Realtor

Painters

First Green/On-Set Green Greensperson Head Greens

Grip

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Medic & EMT

Camera/Grip Lighting Sound

Greens

Lighting & Electric Best Boy Electrician Electrician Gaffer Rigging Electric Rigging Gaffer

Assistant Craft Service Key Craft Service

Art Department Coordinator Art Director Food Stylist Graphic Design Lead Set Dresser On Set Dresser Production Designer Set Director Set Designer/Draftperson Set Dresser/Swing Gang Set Dressing Buyer Storyboard Artist

Casting

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Ager/Dyer Costume Designer Costumer/Set Costumer Key Costumer/Key Set Costumer Tailor/Cutter/Draper Stylist Buyer Wardrobe Supervisor

Craft Services

Animal Rentals Animal Rentals/Training Animal Trainers Livestock Coordinator Wranglers

Art Department

Costumes

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Transportation

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Helicopter Services Transportation Coordinator Transportation Driver

Video/Projection 19

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Projectionist Video Assist/Playback Video Camera Operator

Assistant Production/ Office Coordinator Office Production Assistant Production Office & Coordinator Production Services Travel Coordinator www.miscpubs.com

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