After earning undergraduate degrees in Philosophy and Anthropology at the University of Santa Clara, Emmy Award-winning video producer Rick Bacigalupi attended graduate school in broadcasting at San Francisco State University.  Starting as an intern at KPIX Channel 5 in 1986, he worked as a production assistant on Westinghouse Broadcasting’s groundbreaking national AIDS Lifeline campaign.  Since then he has served as unit manager of PM Magazine, associate producer at KQED Channel 9’s “This Week in Northern California” and as freelance co-producer/editor for KQED’s Local Hero underwriter spot campaign since 1994.

In 2003 Rick was honored by longtime client HIP Housing with their “Community Partner Award,” and from 2004-2006 he worked as official videographer for Sequoia Hospital, Redwood City. In 2004 he also became a contributing producer for the Palo Alto Media Center. His original series of interstitial shorts “Bay Nature on the Air” began airing on Northern California public television stations in Summer, 2006 and are viewable at www.BayNature.com.

Rick’s first feature-length documentary “A Lot in Common” was distributed nationally in 2004 and has aired on more than 50 public television stations. Now in educational distribution, it has won a number of film festival awards. Three additional documentaries are currently in production in California and Hawai'i.

A member of NATAS, Media Alliance, the International Documentary Association and the Film Arts Foundation, and San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, Rick produces, shoots, and edits.  He is an avid hiker, loyal NPR listener, and a serious Star Trek fan.