Producers' Bios

Brian Devine
Prior to forming Gigantic Pictures, Brian Devine worked for Stanley M. Brooks, a producer of movies and television. He then partnered with writer-director Steven Lisberger (Tron). Lisberger and Devine developed projects for Warner Brothers, Sony/Columbia, Francis Coppola and Kushner-Locke. Additionally, Mr. Devine is an accomplished singer-songwriter having recorded two albums with his band Spanish Speaking Psychics.

Jason Orans
Jason produced several features in the past two years: Flannel Pajamas starring Justin Kirk and Julianne Nicholson which premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival in the Dramatic Competition and was released nationally in theaters; Goodbye Baby starring Kevin Corrigan which premiered at Slamdance 2008; Year Of The Fish (co-produced) which premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival; and Satellite which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and played nationally in theaters in 2006.

Jason is currently in post-production on GOODBYE SOLO, the new feature from writer-director Ramin Bahrani whose debut Man Push Cart premiered at Venice and Sundance in 2006, and whose new film Chop Shop premiered at Cannes and Toronto in 2007.

Previous films include several literary adaptations for PBS, including: Nisha Ganatra's Cosmopolitan written by Sabrina Dhawan (Monsoon Wedding); The Suitor directed by Julia Solomonoff (Sisters) based on a story by Julia Alvarez; The First Seven Years based on a story by Bernard Malamud; and The Key based on a story by Eudora Welty.

Jason is also an active line producer of documentaries, shorts and music videos as well as the U.S. units of international feature films such as L'autre, Alexandria... New York , and Hello America (Egypt), and Last Love (Japan).