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Co-founder & Principal , Gerber Rigler Executive Consulting; Broadband Jungle Blog (Owner)
www.gerberrigler.com,
www.rigler.tv,
www.broadbandjungleblog.com
Pasadena, California, United States
Business owner , Freelancer
Member since: May 27, 2007
Thomas Rigler is an award-winning filmmaker, New Media and TV development executive who produces and devises content strategies for film, television and emerging media platforms. He’s consulted for Talpa Content USA, PBS-Now, Sony Pictures Television, MSN Germany, DDB Juniper Group, Nixle.com and E! Networks among others.
Thomas Rigler recently joined the producing and consulting partnership Gerber Rigler with veteran producer and new media visionary Brian Gerber.
Thomas recently developed and is set to produce and co-direct ‘The Trainer,’ a feature length documentary film for Austrian Public Television ORF and Lotus Film Vienna about author and music legend Günter Brödl, to premiere in October 2010.
Thomas oversaw the successful launch of the broadband video channel the Vine @ Eonline, one of the first broadband properties from a US cable network, as well as VOD channels for Comcast’s E! and Style Networks, and served as senior producer during the start of several internationally localized Comcast Channels. Thomas executive produced and directed hundreds of hours of television, broadband, mobile and VOD programming for E!, style, Food Network, Fine Living, CNET, ZDF, Arte, ORF, Pro7 and 3SAT.
Educated at the writing and directing program of the National Film Academy in Vienna, Austria, Thomas got his start writing and producing for local theater, eventually directing documentaries about German and US theater events for German pubcaster ZDF and Arte. Thomas produced numerous television profiles on A-list actors, directors and musicians for lifestyle cable network E! that aired across the globe, as well as 10 episodes of ‘Infamous’, a scripted take on true crime genre for E! Entertainment’s primetime slate. He is the award-winning director of Glenalbyn Drive, a documentary about proponents of the 1980’s art world and various subsequent experimental films on fine arts.
Thomas serves as the Vice President of the Board for the International Documentary Association and as an industry mentor at the American Film Institute’s Digital Content Lab. He is a member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the Producers Guild of America and the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences.
Thomas conceived and runs AustenAddict.com, an online destination promoting the bestselling Plume / Penguin book Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict. He writes on new media production for his own Broadband Jungle Blog, Vator.TV, Handelsblatt.com and Documentary Magazine.
| Freelance keyword | New Media Executive, TV Development Executive, Filmmaker |
| University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna Film directing and writing |
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extremely insightful guy, wonderful interview. applying the mind of an abstract artist to the social networking space?
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on Is there anybody out there? (Twitter intvw) (August 21, 2008)
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great points! I see we are all still stumbling when explaining monetization and advertising models in quick and simple terms....just a matter of time.
on First big hit will help define Web TV (August 15, 2008)
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Great story, very informative, certainly puts this unfortunate stand-off in perspective. It's all about 4 cents ?You can only hope that too many repeats will lead to more consumption of scripted quality content like Good Night Burbank and everything else that's been perculating duringt he last few months. Maybe the break the space needs to finally send us into the mainstream?
Since it's all about the writing, my only hope is that it's not happening on the backs of other talented creators who're currently sidelined due to the strike. One would hope it simply demonstrates how significant the numbers of viewer attraction and consumption have become.
on Vator Reports: The Hollywood Writers' Strike (November 27, 2007)
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Couldn't agree more: we haven't even seen the beginning.
Several other citizen journalism video initiatives are launching over the next few months: Current TV has repeatedly announced their plans, and it looks like it's going to be some time in the fall; greatness can be expected from the folks who introduced viewer-generated content into America's living rooms.
NBC News is partnering with students, ABC is testing the waters with a user-generated news magazine, and CNN has obviously been doing it for a while. Every online print publication from the Washington Post the Sacramento Bee is embracing citizen journalism on their sites, often against the editorial staff's resistance.
The MacArthur Foundation recently awarded a 5 Million grant to PBS' long running Frontline in order to overhaul their online operations. With that kind of funding, the sky's the limit.
Very curious who's going to create the rules for this type of content: Who's drawing the lines between professional and viewer contributions, and does anyone care? Aggregation seems to be the key in every niche market, and the news may not be any different: As long as I have plenty to choose from when 'digging' into a topic my research should turn out fine.
on Vote of confidence for citizen journalism (August 06, 2007)
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Terrific conecpt and execution judging by the promise of the pitch trailer. Love the idea of an art broadband channel as the ultimate niche channel, and since there's not too much out there, Robert Knafo can actually end up owning the space. There are some other destination serving the same target audience (Perpetual Art Machine, Psychopedia.com, Zigram in Europe), but there's always room for more. To produce clips in TV quality will be hard to maintain without a decent production budget in the long run, once the novelty effect wears off. Curious if NewArtTV eventually plans to include artist's submissions, because if they provided a portal for video art itself (artTube), real gallery money might be flowing for exhibition, distribution and downloads. The there's always potential networking and brokering contacts / sales between artists and collectors. Since this is global, everything's posible... Best of luck!!
on NewArtTV (August 06, 2007)
