Ross Bigley

Filmmaker

Ross Bigley has been a filmmaker since the early nineties, born in Madison he has also worked as an editorial cartoonist, photographer, graphic designer and as a freelance illustrator. In 1990 he co-founded Men at Work Studios and Beyond Pictures in 1991 became a certified producer at MATA Community Media. Where he has produced and helped out on over 30 productions as a writer, director, editor, and producer.

A 1991 graduate of Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design he has shown his artwork in the Fredrick Layton Gallery, Firehouse Gallery, ArtCentric Gallery, and The Warsaw Academy of Poland. And from 1997-99 he was a co-owner of ArtCentric.

As a Filmmaker he has completed 20 shorts and has been nominated in the Philo Video Awards. A portion of his Video The Dirty Job was entered into the overall excellence award for MATA Community Media at The Hometown Awards, which they won for. In 1995 he founded The Milwaukee Video/ Film Festival at MATA Community Media, which ran till 1998. In 1999 he started up Rabid Monkey Pictures, which focused on his writing and directing videos with a fresh perspective, that production company has since evolved into Dirty Job Films.

In 2003 he started Old Skool Productions with Tony Myers. They have brought back The Milwaukee Video/Film Festival in June of that year.

Currently he is in preproduction on several feature film ideas.

Contact:
ross@dirtyjobfilms.com

Selected Works

Happiness is a Long Shot
2006

Sore Losers
2005

Disembodied
2005

My Ex Boyfriends
2004

A Little Horror
2003

The Dirty Job 5 The Deal
2002

The Dirty Job 4 The Tale of Ralphie Kleinman
2002

The Dirty Job 3 The Cretin
2001

What We Learn
Director of Photography and Editor
2001

Slacktime the movie
2001

The Dirty Job 2 Dead As I Wanna Be
2000, 2003

The Dirty Job
1999, 2003

All This Time
1998

The Senate
Producer, Writer, Director
1997-98

Alpha City
1996

Dead Men
1995

Dyslexic Thoughts
1994

The Job
1994

Slacktime the short
1993

Rigormortis
1993

Bed Bugs
1992

Cruel Shifts
1991

Selected Works as Producer

Tai Chi Today (TV Series)
2001-2003

Everybody's Gotta Die!
2000

The Senate (TV Series)
1996-97

S. R. Bissette's Journey Into Fear (TV Series)
1995

Tri-Sphere (Music Videos)
1994

Improvisation (With Rob Schrab)
1992