VIDEO CONTENT TO ENGAGE + EDUCATE
BIG PICTURE MEDIA is a video production studio with cinematographers based in Antigua, Guatemala and Kigali, Rwanda. We partner with organizations across Latin America & Africa to showcase education projects, public health initiatives, and community development programs. Clients use our powerful short films to reach donors and volunteers, supplement grant applications, and promote their hard work from their project site. We are passionate about human rights advocacy, and we support organizations in the field wherever they need it!
Our team has a background in international development policy. We hold public health & education workshops based around the Sphere Humanitarian Standards, we serve as consultants for newly established development programs, and we teach classes on filmmaking for international development fundraising.
Explore our featured projects & pricing below:
The Moore Center: Guatemala City
Learn how we brought The Moore Center's mission to life in this recent short documentary.
The Moore Center in Guatemala City hosts volunteer surgeons from across the USA. Our goal for this film was to capture their volunteer experience, and promote more university partnerships.
Edits often consist of interviews with NGO staff and program beneficiaries, and longer projects dive deeper into the history of an organization. We share all of the raw footage that we capture with our clients for their future use.
Many of our clients are interested in producing video content for their website, or to be used as outreach material on their social media platforms. This short film project with Tostan focused on their community development programs in West Africa.
We captured the story in two days of filming on site, and the edit took around six days to complete. With a filming and editing day rate of $500, most short films can be produced for $3,500 - $4,000. Our documentary length films usually take around a week of filming and roughly ten days to edit. (Budget adjustments usually made if the client is taking care of logistics and travel in country.)
Tostan: Bafatá, Guinea-Bissau
Here are two recent edits we produced for Tostan, which focused on women’s leadership training in West Africa
Adama, Senegal
Mariama, The Gambia
Our team has worked with hundreds of government & nonprofit programs and we understand international development from a policy perspective. We’ve coordinated donor trips for nonprofit clients, completed needs assessments in rural communities in preparation for site visits, and helped new programs navigate the challenges they may face on the ground. If your development project has a need, we can fill it!
Check out a few edits from one of our FIRST projects in Sierra Leone almost 10 years ago!
Grace: Access to Clean Water
Joseph: Finding Opportunity in Sierra Leone
Richard Wernick: Education Programs in Sierra Leone