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Christopher Gallo, an acclaimed commercial and feature film director of photography, was born in NY and was educated at VCU in Richmond and the Art Institute in Fl.

Jimmy is based in the Bay Area.

Makeup artist, Jenny Zielon has been helping people look their best on stage, on screen and on camera for more than 30 years.

Jay is based in the Bay Area and is tight with the  one-and-only Chater Camera.

Darrel is based in the Bay Area.

Martin is a gaffer that can rock it all from the punchier units to the single tubes!

Armin is a camera assistant based in Frankfurt, Germany.

Without Birgit, our beefy Arri units

He got us to and from the location, made sure we were on schedule and got what we needed.

Michaela McKee graduated with honors from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with a B.F.A. from the Film and Television Department. In 2008 she produced the feature documentaries Unspooled, and The Meaning of Tea.

Knut was born in Münster, Germany in 1971. He soon realized his way heading towards movies and started shooting and editing Super 8 film at early age. After graduating from high school (Abitur) in 1992 he directly obtained practical training at a film company and a rental house. From there on he started working as second AC and focus puller for about ten years. In 2003 he began shooting as a Director of Photographer on student short films and from 2005 on he has shot television commercials as well as corporate and station IDs.

Kevin grips on features, commercials and other short stuff.

Phil Guye is a gaffer with some great trucks and is the owner of Atomic Studios.

Assistant Camera supporting the Canon 7D and more.

Ryan is a versatile crew member with talents spanning from the camera department to the post-production suite.

Michael Belcher was born and raised in rural Pennsylvania and went to film school at Ithaca College. He is currently a non-union cinematographer, camera operator, and gaffer based in NYC.

Joe’s the man who’s creative and comes through in a pinch. You’ll be finding yourself saying the phrase “Thanks, Joe!” more times than you’ll be able to count.

No relation to the governor of NY State…

David ‘Sharkey’ Pruger: Sound Mixer, Boomman, Playback – IATSE Local 52 NY

We got a lot of holiday greetings via snail-mail to close out the ’08, but none inspired so much cheer as the card from Reitz Lange.  The missive starred “Executive Producer” Ella guesting as a Preditor in a photo making a few tweaks to the company holiday vid in the edit bay:
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Christian is a Director of Photography, Director and owner of production company / rental house Beyond Our Reality Productions in New York City.

Jeanne Lipsey has shot numerous commercials — clean, bright, sporty and delicious.

Jon gaffs big budget commercials and sometimes works on movies.

Kira Kelly is a Director of Photography with a wide-ranging background shooting features, commercials, documentaries and television.

Usage of the phrase “no worries” first became popularized after someone needed to describe the experience of working with Tracy.

Does the saying “great job” ring a bell…

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Antonia is has a great sensibility that extends far beyond the generally held notion of an assistant editor as a technical helping hand.

Mysterious and dependable, not much is known about Andres other than he’s dependable! Seriously, he’s known to rock the Letus35 Extreme lens adapter to bring some nice, shallow depth of field into the mix.

Jon Hokanson is a New York based Director of Photography of commercials, promos, music videos and two features.

Larry Shea (or that’s Lawrence J. Shea to you who do not personally know him) is an Avid and Final Cut Pro editor.

Matt with his fine, big ears is the goto guy for all things field audio.

Makeup artist and hairstylist extraordinaire. She does fashion, beauty, editorial, weddings, special events, headshots — you name it!

Raphael Laski attended ESRA (Ecole Ssuperieur De ReaIsation Audiovisuel) in Paris France, where he studied sound for cinema, mixing and recording techniques. After moving to New York City he attended the Institute of Audio Research and studio recording and mixing techniques.

With vast experience on big commercial jobs, justin is killer at getting the job done.

Rob gaffed our TreeHugger spots and gift guide web videos for Discovery Communication‘s first of its kind 24/7 eco network Planet Green, as well as Big City’s promos for the Voom’s reality series Art Star.  As a D.P. he has shot some of our work for The CW.

Chris has shot our TreeHugger spots and gift guide web videos for Discovery Communication‘s first of its kind 24/7 eco network Planet Green.

Melissa is has line-produced on numerous tv commercials and on-air promos for lots of folks such as MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, Disney ABC Television Group and Lion TV. For Big City, she produced our TreeHugger spots and gift guide web videos for Discovery Communication‘s first of its kind 24/7 eco network Planet Green.

Wardrobe for film & television and fashion stylist for still photo shoots.

Solid, all-around handy team member for camera and lighting departments.

Need to get it done? Say no more…

Our good friend Katya is a documentary filmmaker and commercial director.

Indio is a dependable crew member with skills spanning from the digital camera department to the post-production suite, to the office coordinator’s workstation.

John Frisbie is one of New York’s most experienced Non-Union affiliated Gaffers with valuable time on set in commercial, film, documentary, industrial and reality productions. His company Grip And Electric Dot Com has a wide range of equipment on a 3-ton truck.

The New York-based Guinta is a man of many talents who has spearheaded some of our favorite projects at BCP.

Description: I run around with a bunch of equipment strapped to my chest and a boompole in my hand. I have to trouble shoot thru crappy situations.

Hailing from Northern Cali, Marcus has a background in fashion photography and bike messengering which makes for a killer combination in a moving pictures shooter: an ingrained sense of beauty in simplicity with a quick eye that can see around corners. Useful stuff when you need a shooter who can aestheticize images on the go while still having an innate sense for following story.

Scott has shot hundreds of projects ranging from Kos Pharmaceuticals corporate communications materials and History Channel’s The Lost Book of Nostradamus produced by BigCityPix, to The Addiction Project for HBO.

Henry has worked on a number of feature films, short films and on-air projects.

Jonathan produced the Big City independent feature film Last Days of May.

The Key Grip is the head of the grip department and chief rigging technician on the set. On smaller productions, there may just be a single grip or team of grips. For small digital productions, the crew position of “Swing” is somewhere in between a Grip and a Gaffer and takes on the responsibilities of both positions. And super-small ENG or EFP shoots may have only a Utility which acts as an all-around skilled set of hands to handle lighting, grip, sound and camera assist tasks.

A gaffer in the motion media industry is the head of the electrical department, responsible for the execution (and sometimes the design) of the lighting plan for a production.

The director of photography (DP or DoP in European and some international parlance) is the chief over the camera and lighting crews working on a film or digital production, responsible for achieving artistic and technical decisions related to the image.

The Assistant Camera (or Camera Assistant) position on a crew is a critical position and often requires immense skill. The AC reports to and works very closely with the Director of Photography and may work alongside a camera operator, or oversee a 2nd assistant camera (also known as the “clapper loader”) and any other members of the camera department.