An Afternoon with Michael Jarvis in conversation with Jim Bigham

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After a nerve-racking job in the Bahamas scouting locations for a television commercial, Miami location scout Lucas Sloan is hired on a movie whose story is centered around the powerful and secretive sugar industry in the Dominican Republic, a country where his mistake on a previous film continues to follow and haunt him. Navigating the social and racial strata of the host country, Sloan experiences the pleasures and pressures of the film business while using his own tactics and survival methods to handle rising stress levels and uncertainties. Travel behind the scenes with Sloan as he moves from one intense and farcical adventure to another. Enter the world of moviemaking at ground level and discover a location scout getting his hands dirty as he struggles to complete the mission and survive the creative and personal upheaval.

Michael Jarvis grew up in an Air Force family, living as a child in Alabama, Texas, Ohio, Guam, Georgia, and England. He graduated from Florida International University with degrees in Fine Arts and English and lives in Miami, Florida. He is the author of the novels Field of Vision, The Path of the Tapir, and The Location Scout, along with the fiction trilogy Dog-Head: Tales from the Neotropics. He scouted and managed locations for various film projects for many years.

A graduate of London Film School, Jim Bigham is a producer and director, and a member of the Directors Guild of America. He has produced feature films, television series, documentaries and TV commercials over a span of fifty years. His feature film credits include the Marvel movies Black Widow, Spiderman, and Ms Marvel, the Tim Burton movies Dumbo and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, along with other studio and independent films such asPlastic, Dolphin Tale, Magic Mike, Great Expectations, Body Heat, and Bad Boys.
Jim produced the feature film Sweetland, winning an Independent Spirit Award, and produced the Oscar nominated documentary, Chasing the Dream. He also directed and produced the international award-winning documentary, For Once In My Life.
Jim is a member of IQ – the International Quorum of select filmmakers that connects top producers from around the globe.
“I love the creative process of making films and respect the powerful messaging that can impact society.”

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