Whether it's for the theatrical release, the digital screen, digital transmission, the web, a cell-phone and even a live performance, Working Pictures has a full body of work that demonstrates the company's expertise and commitment to quality work. We are a flexible full service turnkey operation that can conceive and execute the totality of any creative need or we can offer a la carte partnering in any aspect of conception, production or post-production.

Working Pictures was created in 1990 by husband and wife team Bobby and Sara Sheehan. Since that time Working Pictures has produced dozens of feature length film – narrative and documentary, numerous TV show, interstitials, short films, and a score of TV commercials. The company is well known for it’s hard work and exceptional execution of any job the company undertakes. Some of the notable partnerships are the company’s current commitment to Ovation TV and their evolution of as a true arts producer and broadcaster with such high quality work that even reaches to the White House, creating the media identity for Donna Karan’s healthcare initiative Urban Zen, collaborating with ad agency Chowder to develop an embedded entertainment feature film “Cayman Went,” a wide range of productions for the various Cablevision companies, five seasons of “Repo Men: Stealing for a Living” for TLC and a lifetime commitment to producing anti-drug messaging in conjunction with The Partnership For A Drug-Free America.

Working Pictures owns four high-definition cameras and it’s own grip, lighting and sound equipment.

To keep up with the editorial demands of the production company and the keep the creative bar as high as possible, Working Pictures opened Grenade Editorial in 1996. Grenade Editorial has four fully equipment high-definition edit bays and a 3D graphics room.
Although, Grenade’s primary focus has been the busy slate of Working Pictures work, Grenade has post-produced a slew of independent feature films and TV programming for AMC, EPIX, IFC, Food Network, Ovation and Showtime.

Grenade Editorial also has Robellion, a 3D and compositing effects company with a client list includes: AMC, AT&T, Cascade, Caesars, Crest, Dish Network, Food Network, IFC, Pantene, Showtime, Sprint, Sprite, and Verizon.

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Arias With A Twist: The Docufantasy
86 Minutes – World Premiere Berlin Film Festival 2010 – North American Premiere Tribeca Film Festival 2010 – Invited to dozens of other film festival across the planet.

Rights still available.

“Arias With A Twist: The Docufantasy” is more than just an exploration of the lives and art of the two artists profiled- legendary performance artist Joey Arias and internationally renowned puppeteer Basil Twist. This documentary is a love letter to the creative spirit. We explore the history, process and the need to create as Arias and Twist come together to create and then perform the avant-garde and ground breaking theatrical show “Arias With A Twist”. This exploration of the creative drive of these two extraordinary men not only inspires, it allows people to dream as they take a trip into the minds and imaginations of Joey Arias and Basil Twist.

Bar d’ O
In Production. Upcoming live reunion concert scheduled for September 7th at Dominion Night Club in new York City.

Rights still available.

It’s rare to have three legends on the same stage but when Joey Arias, Raven O and Sherry Vine you have a potent whirlwind that mixes; music, comedy, burlesque, drag and drama…with a capital “D.”

When the three performers first hit the stage together at the infamous Bar d’ O, a small dark and intimate exclusive New York nightclub no one knew that New York history was being made. This documentary is centered around a celebration performance of the three artist getting together after 12 years and unleashing Bar d’ O once again. With current lifestyle footage, current performance footage, the live reunion concert and tons of fabulous footage from “back in the day” this documentary will blow off everyone’s high - heels.

Cayman Went
90 minutes. Distributed by Osiris Entertainment

TV personality Josh Anders (Michael Lombardi, FX’s Rescue Me) is a legend in his own mind … and even he has doubts. Ratings are down and the hottie star of Diver Down (a male Baywatch) can’t get arrested in Hollywood these days. When the smug pretty boy receives an ultimatum from an ultra-wealthy, powerful and unethical resort developer – who also happens to own the network that broadcasts his show – Josh finds himself the key player in a land grab scheme targeting the picturesque, unspoiled and tiny
Caribbean island of Cayman Brac.
The laid-back locals, most of them big fans, are putty in his hands, except for the eccentric Mr. Bowman (Jeffrey Demunn, Burn After Reading, Hollywoodland, CBS’s Law & Order, The Shawshank Redemption), a cranky retiree who’s never even heard of the show.

Secretly petrified of the ocean, Josh just wants to close the deal and go home. That is until Mr. Bowman, a parentless kid named Rodney and Darby Thomas (Susan Misner, Chicago, Eavesdrop), the beautiful but opinionated owner of the local Sand Bar, change his mind about what really matters most.

A romantic drama that proves It’s all good … if you just know what to look for.

Cosmic: Kenny Scharf
In Production. Filming is centered around Kenny producing large scale paintings for a big gallery show in February in New York. Excellent interviews with people such as Dennis Hopper and Yoko Ono.

Rights still available.

It’s New York in the early 1980’s, it art at it’s purest form and it’s unadulterated fun or in a nutshell it’s Kenny Scharf. Having lost two of his closet friends, roommates and artistic comrades, Keith Haring and Jean- Michel Basquait, Kenny carries the creativity of his youthful generation and peers on his shoulders as he continues his fantasy ride across the universe via his brushes and paints.

It’s Different For Girls
In Production. Interviewed scheduled with top tastemakers, celebrities and experts from the sociological and mental health fields.

Rights still available.

It’s no longer the age of Gidget. Young girls are bombarded with hypersexual media messaging and awkward peer pressures of an overly complicated world. Eating disorders and cutting are just a few ways in which tween and teen girls act out when overcome with fears and anxieties. This film explores how young girls can begin to navigate on a healthy road to maturity.

Jeff Koons: Beyond Heaven
44 minutes. Produced for Ovation.

The heir apparent to Andy Warhol Jeff Koons who has surpassed being an artist and has earned himself an iconic figure in the Pantheon of art history. This documentary film presents those who revere Jeff Koons and those who dismiss him as a better Con-Artist than a Fine Artist.

Listen To The World
66 minutes. Produced for Ovation.

The world’s first global musical museum literally evolves from groundbreaking to completion in this feature length documentary about the creation of The Musical Instrument Museum. A three year journey with crews traveling all over the world with ethnomusicologists gathering musical instruments worthy of representing their native culture and being part of this extraordinary collections of musical instruments. An amazing film about the birth of an amazing museum.

My Name Is Nigel Cook
Varying lengths. Separate pieces produced for History Channel, Magrack (VOD) and Voom – defunct HD Provider – Nigel had nothing to do with their impulsion…we think.

Always available for hire and always ready to attack. One Man One Dream No Chance. People come to America with a dream. Nigel Cook came with a delusion. This satirical comedy about the blind ambitions of the independent film world blurs the lines between fiction and reality. Nigel is “almost” intelligent enough to be taken seriously but his lunacy pushes the perspective of how mania pushes one to the brink. Being completely clueless about filmmaking, Nigel attempts to force feed himself cinematic knowledge as he pays his way forward with the Cook family’s fortune.

Mr. Prince
44 minutes. Produced for Ovation.

Although the most celebrated figure on Broadway and musical theater, Hal Prince views himself as a workingman with a simple vision of what he wants to produce. The fact that this humble man has 22 Tony Awards and has reinvented musical theater a few time; “Westside Story” in the 1960’s and “Cabaret” and “Sweeny Todd” in the 1970’s and directed “Phantom Of The Opera” the most successful play in history makes this humble man a living legend and a giant amongst his peers. Even more endearing, is the fact that at the age of 80, Hal Prince is still out there trying to get his next play produced.

Repo Men: Stealing For A Living
44 minute episodes Produced for TLC 2000 till 2005.

Best known as Big Pussy from the “Sopranos,” Vincent Pastore hits the rough and tumble road of repossession with some very sorted agents who just barely exist on the right side of the law. The predecessor to “Dog The Bounty Hunter,” Repo Men was the first reality show to be told in the first person and without voice over narrators.

Seed
82 minutes. Distributed by IFC Films

VARIETY hales SEED as a "visually captivating spiritual road movie that journeys across America asking the Big Questions about human existence with innovative cinematic form that relentlessly chips away at the boundaries between features and docus with pictorial panache and experimental sensibility." Guess that says all that needs to be said.

Standing 8
In Development

This gritty and poignant story battles racial stereotypes, paternity issues and the far-reaching ramifications of our actions.
On the surface people can appear to be like polar opposites but as they come to help one another they can learn that we are all cut from the same cloth.

Talent Collector
22 minutes. Produced for AMC

Coralie Jr. is an old school talent agent who believes in her clients whole-heartedly. While the outside world may consider her performers to be freaks and midgets, Coralie treats her artists as vaudevillians stuck in an reality TV world. It takes a lot of love to care about performers with actual talent nowadays.

Theater Of War
12 minutes. Produced for Web

Theater of War presents readings of Sophocles' Ajax and Philoctetes to military communities across the United States. These ancient plays timelessly and universally depict the psychological and physical wounds inflicted upon warriors by war. By presenting these plays to military audiences, our hope is to de-stigmatize psychological injury and open a safe space for dialogue about the challenges faced by service members, veterans, and their caregivers and families.

This short films follows actors David Strathairn and Bill Camp as they travel to Fort Brag, experience some basic training with troops before their first deployment and captures these intensely emotional readings with veterans learning to cope with post traumatic stress syndrome.

View Finder
In Post-Production. Produced for Ovation

An original TV series that visits with a photographic artists who has mastered their personalized craft. We see where they call home or creative base, travel with them on location, in their studio, investigate their histories, their influences and find out first hand what makes them tick creatively and, as importantly; expose their humanity.

Part photo lesson, part travel show, part psychological expose, VIEW FINDER is an inspirational show designed to motivate people to look inside and explore their own creativity.