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BFD delivered more than 800 vfx shots that help “Highest 2 Lowest” achieve its visual power and unity.
“Father. Mother. Sister. Brother” is Jarmusch’s latest low-key exploration of strained relationships.
“In The Hand Of Dante” is Schnabel’s epic vision of Nick Tosches’ novel of the same name, jumping back and forth between 2000s New York, and 1200s Italy.
“The Smashing Machine” is Safdie’s feature version of the true story of UFC/MMA fighter Mark Kerr, one of the pioneers of no-holds fighting.
BFD delivered more than 800 vfx shots that help “Highest 2 Lowest” achieve its visual power and unity.
Deep Sky is Big Film Design’s latest collaboration with director Nathaniel Kahn. It was our third project together dealing with the James Webb Space Telescope (Telescope, The Hunt for Planet B).
Enormous in runtime, theme, and achievement, Killers of the Flower Moon is a sobering appraisal of America's relationship with Indigenous peoples and yet another artistic zenith for Martin Scorsese and his collaborators.
Twin gynaecologists, Elliot and Beverly Mantle, perform ethically questionable procedures on infertile women.
THE PALE BLUE EYE is an American gothic horror mystery film written and directed by Scott Cooper, adapted from the 2003 novel of the same name by Louis Bayard.
Big Film Design is pleased to announce that one of our recent projects, Luckiest Girl Alive, has just been released in theaters, and will start streaming on Netflix on October 7th.
BFD designed the titles for the film, continuing our long creative history with the Coens, dating back to Miller’s Crossing.
Big Film Design’s latest project, The Hunt for Planet B, premieres Saturday, November 20, at 9pm EST on CNN. Director Nathaniel Kahn will be interviewed beforehand by anchor Pamela Brown.
First-time director Edson Oda swings for the fences in this ambitious existential debut, which imagines just how hard it is for a soul to be born, and why the living should never take that gift for granted.
Stillwater follows an American oil-rig roughneck from Oklahoma who travels to Marseille to visit his estranged daughter, in prison for a murder she claims she did not commit.
Simple as Water, a documentary, is a soft-spoken meditation on love, displacement, and fracturing familial relations.
BFD’s second film this year featuring the late Chadwick Boseman. With co-star Viola Davis and an amazing supporting cast, this film by director George C. Wolfe will move and shake you.
Hillbilly Elegy begins streaming on Netflix Tuesday, November 24, just in time for Thanksgiving.
In the middle of post-election chaos, we have something guaranteed to take your mind and heart to a better place: Let Him Go from Focus features, actually in theaters, this Friday, November 6.
A team of designers and digital artists who collaborate to bring creative visions and technical tools together to create movie magic.
Randall Balsmeyer has been working in visual effects for 40 years! He has worked on many films including GHOST, DEAD MAN, THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU and BLACKKKANSMAN. He talks to us today about his new collaboration with director Spike Lee.
Being released on June 12 is the amazing Aviva, a gender-bending drama-with-dance, or dance-with-drama, depending on your point of view.
For Balsmeyer, globalization is simply the latest adjustment in the ever-changing film industry, where he’s worked since the 1980s, doing title design, visual effects, cinematography, and directing alongside notable filmmakers such as David Cronenberg, Joel and Ethan Coen, Jim Jarmusch, and Scorsese.
BFD created the opening and end title sequences for Rolling Thunder Revue, inspired by the circus-style lettering used on the stage curtain.
In addition to creating the main and end title sequences, BFD’s Creative Director, Randy Balsmeyer, was Second Unit Director for Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die.
Iconic filmmaker Spike Lee revisits his first feature film with this Netflix original series of the same name.
Big Film Design is proud to have created titles and graphics for Universal Pictures new release, Girls Trip, opening today in theaters nationwide.
We’re very excited to have been a part of making Spike Lee’s new film from Focus Features, BlacKkKlansman. BFD was the exclusive supplier of visual effects, graphics and titles for this extraordinary picture. It opens in theaters nationwide today, Friday August 10.