About us - Big Time Picture Company, Inc.

Big Time Picture Company, Inc.
Final Cut & AVID suites, off-site rentals, storage solutions

Mission Statement

Big Time Picture Company, Inc. offers a staff of technically qualified and creatively adept professionals who furnish motion picture post production services, including editing suite rentals, equipment rentals and sales, and peripheral post production services to the studio and independent film community to facilitate the storytelling vision of filmmakers of dramatic features, documentaries, and movies made-for-cable and television.

Susan Klos

Susan Klos came from New York in 1975 to attend the American Film Institute as a fellow in cinematography, but she put her budding career behind the camera on hold when she started a family. In 1978, she formed Big Time Picture Company, Inc., her post production business which grew into the Westside’s first independent post production facility including editing suites, Avid and Final Cut digital equipment rentals, Apple computer sales as a Professional Video Value Added Reseller specializing in Final Cut systems, and digital post production technical support and consulting.

Several hundred films have posted at Big Time over the years including Oliver Stone’s Academy Award winning “Born on the Fourth of July,” six John Frankenheimer films including “Ronin,” two Sam Raimi films including “A Simple Plan,” several Farrelly Brothers films including “There’s Something About Mary,” Nancy Meyers’s “What Women Want,” and the documentary classics, “Dogtown” and “Riding Giants.”

Susan is also executive producer for the documentary “Lost Angels.” Produced by Agi Orsi (“Dogtown” and “Riding Giants”) and directed by Thomas Napper (assistant director “The Soloist”), “Lost Angels” chronicles the lives of many residents of Skid Row who were cast as extras for the feature film “The Soloist,” starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jamie Fox. It shares stories of the camaraderie, compassion, and humor experienced on Skid Row – the very qualities that help create the area’s unique sense of community. “Lost Angels” premiered at the 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival to rave reviews.

Susan also wrote the dramatic feature screenplay, VOICES, to help her come to terms with her daughter’s diagnosis of schizophrenia. VOICES has won many screenwriting competitions including first place in the New Hampshire Film Festival and Chicago ScriptWorks. She is working to package VOICES as an independent film. Susan is also currently enrolled in the UCLA Professional Program in Screenwriting.

Susan is an associate member of the American Cinema Editors, member of the AFI Alumni Association, Film Independent, Women In Film, the National Association of Women Business Owners, the Alliance of Women Directors and the Digital Cinema Society. She is also a recent graduate of the UCLA Anderson School Management Development for Entrepreneurs program.

Susan stays dedicated to issues surrounding mental health through involvement in NAMI, the National Alliance for Mentally Ill.

John Klos

In the mid 1990’s, John began administering various Unix and Unix-like systems providing network and Internet services. He adopted NetBSD's philosophy and became active in the NetBSD community. In 2001, he was invited by the NetBSD Foundation to become a developer.

In 2001, John set up one of the first free public wireless networks in Tompkins Square Park in New York City's East Village. He advocated for free wireless and was active in the NYCWireless community helping others establish and share wireless connectivity.

John soon after started his web hosting company, ZiaSpace, and continues to host many websites including the political blog Crooks and Liars.

In 2004, John joined the staff of Big Time Picture Company, Inc. as Chief Technical Officer. He heads up the support arm of Big Time specializing in Avid and Final Cut systems, RAID storage solutions and video and digital technology. Big Time Picture Company is an Apple Professional Video Value Added Reseller because of John’s expertise in computer systems for video and digital application in the major motion picture industry.

John has given seminars sponsored by Apple and the Alliance of Women Directors on RED workflow and written an article about RED workflow published in Post Magazine. Recently, he was post production supervisor (all RED workflow) for the feature documentary film, “Lost Angels,” which premiered at the 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival.

John is part of the Klos Technologies team including his brothers Michael and Patrick, working on development of a new form of universal time code or “timestamp” for video and digital based media.