BIG SHOES MEDIA
Big Shoes Media is a full service production company specializing in the creation of high-impact media campaigns for corporations and not-for-profit organizations. We develop and produce television commercial spots, PSA’s, corporate films, documentaries, promotional/fundraising films and web-based streaming media.
The founding partners of Big Shoes are Tommy Walker, Mustapha Khan, and Dan Schneider, who have a combined 60 years of experience producing and directing films for commercial, corporate and not-for-profit clients.
Their commercial and corporate clients have included: Coca-Cola, Toyota, Hewlett Packard, Mercedes Benz, AT&T, Sesame Street, Burger King, Honda, Daimler Chrysler, Proctor & Gamble, Nickelodeon, PBS, HBO, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, the New York State Department of Health and National Geographic Explorer.
Their not-for-profit clients have included: The Robin Hood Foundation, the Children’s Defense Fund, The Legal Aid Society, Save the Children, the Black AIDS Institute, Recruiting New Teachers, the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, the Declare Yourself Campaign to energize youth voting and, most recently, The Academy for Educational Development.
TOMMY WALKER
(Director): Tommy Walker is a producer/director whose film credits include: The Black List (HBO), Mandela in America, which followed Nelson Mandela on his first visit to the United States; Rights and Wrongs, a PBS news magazine focusing on international human rights abuses; Tutu and Franklin, featuring the Reverend Desmond Tutu; the Emmy-Nominated With All Deliberate Speed, about school desegregation; A Southern Town, about the people of Jackson, Mississippi and God Grew Tired of Us, a documentary feature about refugees from war torn Sudan, which won Best Documentary as well as the Audience Award at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival.
Tommy is a graduate of the University of Virginia, and is the son of the Right Reverend Bishop John T. Walker, the first African American Episcopal Bishop in Washington DC.
MUSTAPHA KHAN
(Writer): Mustapha Khan is an Emmy Award-winning director whose credits include: the multiple-award winning documentary House on Fire, about the AIDS epidemic in Black America, the prime time TV Special Sesame Street’s 25th Anniversary: A Musical Celebration; the critically-acclaimed PBS film, Reflections of a Native Son; and the youth-oriented PBS NATURE Series, Wild TV. As a TV and music video director, he has directed artists such as: Gloria Estefan, Bill Cosby, Alicia Keys, Snoop Dogg, Mya, Quincy Jones, Ray Charles, Dave Chappelle, Queen Latifah, Missy Elliott, Savion Glover, Maya Angelou, Elmo, Big Bird and the Muppets.
Mustapha is a graduate of Harvard University, and was a Rotary Graduate Scholar in Kenya, where he worked as a social anthropologist before becoming a filmmaker.
DAN SCHNEIDER
(Executive Producer): Dan Schneider has been practicing entertainment, corporate, new media, intellectual property (copyrights and trademarks) and real property law for more than 26 years in Manhattan and Woodstock, N.Y. A graduate of Vassar College (AB, 1979, Evans Fellow in Law) and Emory Law School (JD, 1982, Emory Scholar), he is admitted to the New York and Georgia bars, as well as to the U.S. District Court (Southern District, N.Y.). Mr. Schneider has been AV-rated by Martindale Hubbell (www.schneiderpfahl.com). A member of numerous non-profit Boards, including The America The Beautiful Fund, The Giulio Gari Foundation and the Hudson Valley Technology and Commerce, Dan was the founder of Woodstock Mediation (www.woodstockmediation.com) and First Mondays (www.firstmondays.com), a quarterly networking group, first founded in 2002 to help New Yorkers help themselves during difficult times.