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Film Courage: How do you get a movie made? Can you explain the exact process?
Robert Rippberger, Filmmaker: If only there was a process. There’s so many different ways to get a movie made and that’s the tricky part is where to start and what method to go about it. Fundamentally it requires resources. It requires money, enlisting people in your vision and having a very clear vision of what you want to do and how you want to interact with the world. I would say it obviously starts with a good story. You then have to have resources or people contributing resources to that but it’s certainly not easy. It takes a lot of determination and gusto to keep it moving.
Film Courage: It sounds like each project that you’ve worked on because you have quite a few under your belt or that you’ve been a part of is different each time?
Robert: Every project that comes together is a bit different and usually it takes a tremendous amount of I guess me believing in myself that we can pull something off even when it looks like the odds are stacked against us. There’s been projects where we were a week away from filming and we didn’t have all the money to finish filming and it was just We’ll get there, we’ll figure it out and then we were able to close the financing last week of filming. At least for me there’s always a strong sense in which things always seem to work themselves out and so I think…(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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