Adventure Pictures is a San Francisco-based media production company with a global reach. We have worked worldwide for more than 20 years producing award-winning television programs, short-form documentaries, and print and web advertising campaigns. We’ve built a tight-knit creative team with deep expertise and broad field-based knowledge--qualities that inform all of our work. 

principals
Richard Neill
Richard is an award-winning Director and Cinematographer who has traveled the world directing and shooting science and natural history documentaries, corporate films, and web specials for more than two decades. For National Geographic, he has produced and shot numerous documentaries including Explorer specials such as “Avalanche: Surviving Tragedy” and “Women Smokejumpers.” His credits for PBS include Director of “Good Morning Miss Toliver” (Peabody Award), Director of Photography on “Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst” for American Masters, “Eye of the Beholder” for Discovery Channel, “Learning the Hard Way” for Discovery Times, and “Mean Girls: Mind Games” for Discovery Health. He pioneered early live web broadcasting for Wired, Yahoo, and other technology companies. 

Elizabeth Garsonnin
Elizabeth specializes in directing and producing in the nonprofit and social entrepreneurship sectors. For more than two decades she was Director of Broadcast Production at the public interest communications agency Public Media Center. She directed and produced television, radio, web and print programs for numerous groundbreaking ad campaigns. Her global travel experience includes working as a producer, director and editor on award-winning natural history productions in the Galapagos Islands, the Canadian North and the Pribilof Islands. Elizabeth has a background in fine art and design and is an exhibiting painter.

associates
Owen Bisell
Owen is a noted Cameraman and Sound Recordist in the fields of natural history and conservation. His film “The Last Run” was an award winner from the Explorers Club Film Festival. He has worked on documentaries for National Geographic and the Discovery Channel.

Steve Eagleton
Steve’s background is as varied as he is well traveled, and includes a wide range of global projects – from the Olympics and extreme sports to documentaries. He has edited World Cup Skiing in Val d’Isere, France and Los Lenas, Argentina; World Cup Racing in Steamboat Springs and three World Championships of World Cup Skiing for CBS. In the music world, Steve created all the video and graphics for the Rolling Stones “Voodoo Lounge Tour”, Tina Turner’s “Goldeneye Tour” and Bette Midler’s show at Caesar’s in Las Vegas “The Showgirl Must Go On.” Commercial editing includes stints for Sega, EA Sports, Apple, The Mill Valley Film Festival and MacWorld. Among his broadcast editorial credits are documentaries for the Discovery Health Channel and National Geographic Television, including specials on the mysteries of the Mammoths and the disappearance of Amelia Earhart

Tom Disher
Tom has always been passionate about music and sound. Since founding Disher Music & Sound in 1993, the Emmy award winning composer and sound designer has produced countless musical compositions and soundtracks for commercials, documentaries, features, and the interactive realm. Schooled in classical piano and jazz arranging, then seasoned by several years on the road touring with various bands, Tom self-produced his first recording in 1979. He has been an audio post engineer for over a decade, and still greatly enjoys the process of mixing.

Katie Kleinsasser
Katie recently completed twenty-three years at Public Media Center in San Francisco, where she served as Senior Vice President and managed many of the agency's major national accounts for public health, women’s health and advocacy, and consumer education clients. Her extensive work has included management, creative development and implementation of public interest campaigns. Her expertise includes capacity assessment, strategic planning, market research, branding, message development, budget planning, paid advertising, media placement, copywriting and supervision of design and production. Prior to joining PMC, she was an account executive at Grey Advertising in San Francisco.

Susan Alexander
Susan is a communications and fundraising consultant with 28 years of experience working with nonprofit organizations. She was Vice President for Communications at Public Media Center for over 16 years where she primarily managed the environmental portfolio, and advised clients on media outreach and strategic communications planning, messaging and branding. She is the former Vice President for Communications at the nonprofit environmental labeling organization, Green Seal. Prior to Green Seal, she was Eco-Desk Manager for Esprit, and Communications Coordinator for Earth Day 1990 International Headquarters. She has worked for The Wilderness Society both as a lobbyist in Washington, D.C., and as the Society's Alaska Regional Director in Anchorage where her activist, lobbying and organizing efforts focused on preventing oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.