Robert Rippberger

Robert Rippberger
Born (1988-09-07) September 7, 1988
Boulder, Colorado
Education University of California, Berkeley
Occupation Film director and film producer
Years active 2006–present
Website robertrippberger.com

Robert Rippberger (born September 7, 1988) is an American film director and film producer from Boulder, Colorado. He is the director/producer of 7 Days in Syria [1][2] and the executive producer of the Magnolia Pictures acquired South by Southwest documentary Alive and Kicking along with Jason Blum.[3][4][5]

Rippberger is also the director of the 2014 music video Ab Laut Aa by EDM DJ Sanjoy featuring Sunidhi Chauhan.[6] The video has 1.4 million views on YouTube.[7]

Early Life

Robert began filmmaking at age 13. As a freshman in high school, he enrolled in filmmaking classes at the University of Colorado Boulder. In 2005 at age 16, Robert made his first feature film, “The Hoodwink”. For this film he held a casting call, hired an editor and set up his own premiere screening. Robert even rented a helicopter and hired a pilot to fly it so he could shoot a chase scene up Flagstaff Mountain.[8]

Robert received a B.A. in philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley in 2010 where he was awarded in 2009 the Roselyn Schneider Eisner Prize for his film In the Middle. It is the 'highest award for creativity given on the UC, Berkeley campus.'[9]


Career

Robert co-created and then sold a documentary archive site called ThinkingAloud.com, asking politicians and world leaders about the biggest crisis facing the world today and asking what is to be done? The series was published in 7 parts by the New York Times.[10][11]

Robert was the 2012 recipient of the Dan Eldon Activist Award for producing Breaking the Cycle, a documentary feature about Huntington’s Disease. The award is given to filmmakers for best use of media to effect positive change.[12][13]

In 2014, Robert published a novel with Regent Press called Escape to Anywhere Else with a foreword by Mariel Hemingway.[14][15]

Robert co-founded and is acting Editor-In-Chief of the film magazine and podcast, Cinema of Change.[16]

Robert is also the festival director of the annual I Imagine Film Festival and conference in New York that coincides with the meeting of the United Nations General Assembly.[17]

Filmography

Robert Rippberger at the 2015 I Imagine Film Festival in New York.

Features

Shorts

Music videos

References

  1. ↑ Gorman, Michele. "TRAILER FOR '7 DAYS IN SYRIA,' A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT REPORTING ON WAR". Newsweek.
  2. ↑ Gandelman, Joe. ""7 DAYS IN SYRIA" (A MUST VIEW FILM GIVEN RECENT DEVELOPMENTS)". The Moderate Voice.
  3. ↑ Lincoln, Ross. "‘Alive And Kicking’ Trailer: SXSW Docu Chronicles Swing Dance Subculture". Deadline.
  4. ↑ DeFore, John. "'Alive and Kicking': SXSW Review". Hollywood Reporter.
  5. ↑ Lincoln, Ross A. "Magnolia Picks Up Blumhouse SXSW Docu ‘Alive And Kicking’". Deadline.
  6. ↑ "CHECK OUT SUNIDHI CHAUHAN’S SINGLE ‘AB LAUT AA’". Bolly Spice.
  7. ↑ Port 22. "Sanjoy ft. Sunidhi Chauhan - Ab Laut Aa - Official Music Video". YouTube.
  8. ↑ Heckel, Aimee (August 18, 2005). "Camera Staff Writer". Newspaper (The Boulder Daily Camera).
  9. ↑ "Prizes and Honors / Roselyn Schneider Eisner Prizes in Film and Video". Berkeley.edu.
  10. ↑ Krupp, Tyler. "Copyright Page". Thinking Aloud.
  11. ↑ Krupp, Tyler. "NY Times: The Stone". The NY Times.
  12. ↑ Eldon, Kathy. "Festival Activists". My Hero.
  13. ↑ Kathy, Eldon. "Eldon Award Winners 2012". My Hero.
  14. ↑ "Escape to Anywhere Else". Barnes & Noble.
  15. ↑ Gandelman, Joe. "Editor-In-Chief". The Moderate Voice.
  16. ↑ "Team Page". Cinema of Change.
  17. ↑ "About Page". I Imagine Film Festival.
  18. ↑ "Robert Rippberger". The Internet Movie Database.
  19. ↑ "Sanjoy - Set Me Free". YouTube.

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