BIG MOUTH FILMS
About
Big Mouth Films was founded in 1997 by Katy Chevigny and Julia Pimsleur to produce provocative and engaging social-issue documentaries and to provide production services for U.S. and international clients. Since its inception, Big Mouth has produced 7 feature-length documentaries that cover topics ranging from the criminal justice system to alternative healing, and has worked with numerous clients in the production of film and video work.
Big Mouth’s films have played at festivals around the world with premieres at the Sundance Film Festival, the Berlin International Film Festival, South by Southwest Film Festival and the Hollywood Black Film Festival. We have garnered awards at Cinema Du Reel Film Festival, Outfest LA, Urbanworld Film Festival, New York Latino Film Festival, the Newark Black Film Festival, the National Council on Crime and Delinquency and we have been nominated for IDA awards and an Emmy Award.
Big Mouth’s films have been broadcast on NBC, HBO Signature, Cinemax, The Sundance Channel and public television. Our funders include the Independent Television Service, the National Black Programming Consortium, the Ford Foundation, the Soros Documentary Fund, the Jerome Foundation, the Funding Exchange/Paul Robeson Fund for Independent Media, the Donnet Fund, the ET Harmax Foundation, the Playboy Foundation, the Women in Film Foundation, the Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation and numerous generous individuals.
Production Services
Big Mouth Films can provide detailed budgets, hire complete production crews, cast talent, rent all necessary equipment, secure the proper location permissions and insurance papers and arrange accommodations for crews around the United States as well as in Latin America, Europe and Africa. We have also served as post-production supervisors for several multi-format film and video projects. These line-producing services are tailored to the needs of the production, and involve everything from setting up a shoot for one day to multi-year commitments.
In The Works
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Current Films
Arctic Son
In the tiny Arctic village of Old Crow a father and son are reunited after 20 years apart. Stanley Sr. is a hunter, a rugged man of the land steeped in Native Vuntut Gwitchin traditions. Seattle-raised Stanley Jr., immerses himself in hip hop and partying. As their worlds collide, this moving father-son journey becomes a larger exploration of the complex relationship between tradition and modernity; nature and pop culture; addiction and independence; and the bigger quest we all embark at some point—the need to know who we are and where we belong.
Deadline
What would you do if you discovered that 13 people slated for execution had been found innocent? That was exactly the question that Illinois Governor George Ryan faced in his final days in office. Deadline is a compelling look insider America’s prisons, highlighting one man’s unlikely and historic actions against the system.
Election Day
On November 2, 2004, millions of Americans put the world’s most famous democracy to the test at polling places across the country. Election Day follows a dozen of these citizens-from the plains of South Dakota to the palm trees of southern Florida-over the course of 24 hours. Uplifting yet troubling, their experiences offer rare insight into a hallowed American ritual.
Past Films
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