Filmcraft: David Velasco

The cardinal rule of real-estate sales—location, location, location—is every bit as important when shooting a movie with the real world as your stage. From permits to Polaroids to pesky neighbors, David Velasco will take us through the unsung heroics (and tricky logistics) that are part of a film location manager’s job, playing an essential role in delineating character through setting as well as in carving a “film world” out of the raw material of our everyday surroundings, just as he helped Steve McQueen do for his stark sex addiction drama Shame, which follows Michael Fassbender on an odyssey through an increasingly menacing Manhattan, as well as directors such as Jonathan Demme, Errol Morris, and David O Russell.