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
We have a wide network of friends and associates in the Bay Area filmmaking community.  Recently we’ve worked with Directors Steven Hessel and Kevin White, editors Susan Utell, Greg Janza, and David Zvi Levine, DP’s Richard Jett and Owen Bissell, and Composer Tom Disher.

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