Tom Howard

Comprehensive International Location Management

Welcome to the website.

This website will give you an overview of my 25 years of location experience and knowledge I can bring to your film or HETV production.

A brief biography, I started out at Amazing Space Location Library learning how to scout, photograph and uncover new locations for the library. After 18 months I moved into becoming a freelance location scout, working for location managers on specific productions this soon took me into location assisting. My first location managing job was a 20 second television commercial for a hayfever product, which lead onto a TV sketch comedy then on to drama production and into feature films.

Since the arrival of high end television production this has added to the scale and complexity of location filming, requiring more staff and sizeable support services has progressed my development into a supervising location manager. I have also scouted and managed filming in various overseas countries from the Caribbean to North Africa on productions such as Hanna 2, The Night Manager, The Worricker Series and recently Malta for Enola Holmes 3.

Ever since starting at a location library my scouting skills have always been in demand. My personal scouting experience includes Greater London, the Home Counties, Greater Manchester, North and South Wales, the Yorkshire Dales and Moors, Isle of Skye and Southern Ireland. Many of these scouted locations are unique and in many cases un-filmed. When invited I always try and attend international film commission trips abroad with the last one I attended took me to the fjords of Western Norway.

My foreign location scouting experience has taken me across many borders including the British Virgin Islands, Germany, Morocco, Mallorca and the cities of Paris, Barcelona, Frankfurt and Wiesbaden.

Directors I have worked with include: Harry Bradbeer (Enola Holmes 2), Lena Dunham (Catherine, Called Birdy), Marc Munden (The Secret Garden), Philippa Lowenthorpe (Misbehaviour!), Suzanne Bier (The Night Manager), Sir David Hare (The Worricker Series) and Michael Winterbottom (The Look of Love).

Production Designers include: Michael Carlin (Enola Holmes 2), Eugenio Caballero (A Monster Calls), Cristina Casali (Read Joan & Misbehaviour), Grant Montgomery (The Secret Garden), Stevie Herbert (Under Salt Marsh, The Worricker Series) Luke Hull (Howards End), Helen Scott (Mary & George, Wuthering Heights & Mothering Sunday), Sonja Klaus (Taboo) and Thom Burton (The Night Manager).