Film Courage: Can we talk about the one shot and how did you do that? How do you break it up or don’t you?
Robert Rippberger, Filmmaker: Shooting Those Who Walk Away in one take or one continuous shot was quite a challenge. We made it harder on ourselves because we also want to shoot during golden hour so that meant that each day we were shooting our one shot we only had one or two goes at it and then the sun would be too low or too high and we couldn’t match it. That put a lot of pressure and a lot of stakes on each day that we filmed. Overall when you watch the film it reads as one continuous shot. There’s only a handful of cuts (far less) than I think people would guess. There’s even some that people might presume were cuts but actually aren’t. But largely we did that to break up the days and allow for more precision on blocking and camera movements. But if we needed to we could have shot the entire thing in one unbroken cut. We just felt like there would be another way to have more precision, more hands-on expression of the film…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
BIO:
Robert Rippberger is a filmmaker with a broad array of creative and executive experience. He most recently directed and produced the film “Those Who Walk Away” starring BooBoo Stewart (Descendants, X-Men) and prior to that directed and produced the Harlem drama, “Strive,” with Danny Glover. Both were released theatrically and received dozens of accolades worldwide. Directing and producing documentaries, Robert released in 2019 ‘Public Enemy Number One’ from Executive Producer Ice-T about the U.S. war on drugs. Prior, Robert directed/produced the documentary “7 Days in Syria,” a look at the human side of the war in Aleppo, Syria. The film was championed by Angelina Jolie, screened at Britain’s House of Lords, to senior members of the U.N., and was released on Hulu and Amazon. As an executive producer, along with Jason Blum, Robert did the feature doc, “Alive & Kicking.” The film was sold to Magnolia Films after its debut at the 2016 SXSW Film Festival where it received a Grand Jury nomination. The film is available on Netflix. Robert received a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from UC, Berkeley in 2012 where he was awarded the Eisner Prize for his film “In the Middle.” It is considered the highest achievement in the creative arts given on the UC, Berkeley campus. Robert is a member of the Producers Guild of America and is on the PGA’s Social Impact Entertainment Task Force. In addition to SIE Films, Robert is also the founder and co-executive director of SIE Society, a leading global alliance of Social Impact Entertainment filmmakers.
His latest film is Those Who Walk Away (Now in theaters and on VOD) starring BooBoo Stewart, Nils Allen Stewart and Scarlett Sperduto.
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