The Big Picture is a film and video production company

Production company

A production company provides the physical basis for works in the realms of the performing arts, new media art, film, television, radio, and video.- Tasks and functions :...

 based in San Rafael

San Rafael, California

San Rafael is a city and the county seat of Marin County, California, United States. The city is located in the North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area...

, California. Founded by cinematographer/director George Lang

George Lang (cinematographer)

George Lang is an American director and cinematographer.-Career:With over thirty years experience in the entertainment industry, he has worked for a number of major media outlets as well as video mediums, with experience in broadcast television, corporate video, and advertising...

, it is structured to provide its production staff with a range of industry experience. The Big Picture works in film, Beta SP, Digi Beta, DV, HD, and 24p formats, and has produced, among other mediums, primarily corporate videos, live events, and episodic television.

Awards and recognition

• George Foster Peabody award (1995), received for an ABC News documentary on the Rwandan Refugee Crisis. The piece also received an Emmy (1995) and was accepted into the Manhattan Museum of Television.
• Emmys for Paradise Lost (1989), a documentary for PBS and ABC regarding the repopulation of ground zero nuclear testing, and the Rwandan Refugee Crisis (1995).
• Telly Award (2007) for collaborations with corporate client Copart.
• Telly Award (2011) won three awards in Sales, Fundraising and How- To/ Instructional catagories.
• Emmys (2011) for both the editing and directing of "Jay Maisel"
• Granted permission by George Lucas
  George Lucas
  George Walton Lucas, Jr. is an American film producer, screenwriter, and director, and entrepreneur. He is the founder, chairman and chief executive of Lucasfilm. He is best known as the creator of the space opera franchise Star Wars and the archaeologist-adventurer character Indiana Jones...
  
   to access and visit Skywalker Ranch
  Skywalker Ranch
  Skywalker Ranch is the name of the workplace of film director and producer George Lucas. It is located in a secluded, but open area near Nicasio, California, in Marin County. The ranch is located on Lucas Valley Road, although Lucas is not related to the road's namesake, who was a...
  
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Notable Television Clients

• A Current Affair (2005 - 2007)
• American Inventor
  American Inventor
  American Inventor is a reality television series based on a competition to be named America's best inventor. It was conceived by UK entrepreneur Peter Jones, who appears on the British version of the somewhat similar programme Dragons' Den, a format originated in Japan where it is owned by Sony....
  
   (2005)
• Bridezillas
  Bridezillas
  Bridezillas is a reality television show produced by DCD Media-owned September Films and airing on the WE cable-television network. It follows the lives of women engaged to be married, casting their busy schedules in an emphatic and sometimes humorous fashion...
  
   (September Films, 2006)
• Dr. Dean Edell (2005 - 2007)
• Dr. Dean Ornish (Discovery Channel, 2006)
• Dr. Phil (2005-2007)
• MTV Icon
  Icon
  An icon is a religious work of art, most commonly a painting, from Eastern Christianity and in certain Eastern Catholic churches...
  
  , Rock Honors, Total Request Live
  Total Request Live
  Total Request Live is a television series on MTV that featured popular music videos. TRL was MTV's prime outlet for music videos as the network continues to concentrate on reality-based programming. In addition to music videos, TRL featured daily guests...
  
   (2004 - 2006)
• G4
  G4 (TV channel)
  G4, also known as G4 TV, is an American cable- and satellite-television channel originally geared primarily toward young adult viewers, originally based on the world of video games...
  
   Media (2002 - 2007)
• The Showbiz Show with David Spade
  The Showbiz Show with David Spade
  The Showbiz Show with David Spade was a weekly television program on Comedy Central that starred comedian David Spade. It is a comedic parody of celebrity news programs such as Entertainment Tonight and Access Hollywood...
  
   (Comedy Central, 2006)

Corporate Clients

• American Red Cross
  American Red Cross
  The American Red Cross , also known as the American National Red Cross, is a volunteer-led, humanitarian organization that provides emergency assistance, disaster relief and education inside the United States. It is the designated U.S...
  
  
• Copart
• Ernst and Young
• IGN
  IGN
  IGN is an entertainment website that focuses on video games, films, music and other media. IGN's main website comprises several specialty sites or "channels", each occupying a subdomain and covering a specific area of entertainment...
  
  
• Intel
• Sandisk
  SanDisk
  SanDisk Corporation is an American multinational corporation that designs, develops and manufactures data storage solutions in a range of form factors using the flash memory, controller and firmware technologies. It was founded in 1988 by Dr. Eli Harari and Sanjay Mehrotra, non-volatile memory...
  
  
• Sony
  Sony
  , commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan and the world's fifth largest media conglomerate measured by revenues....
  
  

External links

o Official website

o The Big Picture at Brightcove