We put together some posts showing location scout photos (on the left) next to the final footage of that scene from the video (on the right) for our social media pages.
We love scouting. This is when you bring your ideas from the script out and start to interact with the real world. The real magic of cinema is the way life intersects and interacts with the imagination. It’s a dance between idea and execution and the creative collaboration woven between them.
Kafina all natural health energy drink hired us to produce a series of videos for them, including an animation, founder’s video and user portraits. We had a blast capturing their products in the beautiful landscapes of Vermont.
Here are some behind the scenes photographs of us in action; setting up, planning out scenes, working with the talent and capturing the footage to weave together and tell the story of Kafina.
We were hired by Southern Tier Distillery to produce a series of videos for their canned craft cocktails. We also made a video telling the story of the founder’s of the company. We Shot in New York state in the southern tier and in Vermont on Mount Philo, Charlotte bay and the Cedar Knoll golf course in Hinesburg.
We’ve been too busy to update the News section lately but will do so soon! In the meantime, for more up to date news, check out Rob’s Instagram HERE
The new Inspirational Video we produced for Seventh Generation can now be seen on their “careers” page here careers, direct link to the video here Inspiration
Over 300,000 views on one of the videos we produced for Seventh Generation. check it out here: Link to Video
Check out a new interview with Rob Koier on the VT PBS show, “Connect”, on VT PBS August 15th at 9:30pm and August 16th at 10:30 am. You can also watch the Connect Interview here
Rob Koier’s award winning short, NORTH STAR will air at the 2015 White River Indie Film Fest (WRIFF) in the “Short Films By Local Filmmakers” Showcase. Check out the line up for this year’s WRIFF here WRIFF 2015
Just got news from folks at SEVENTH GENERATION that the video we Produced for them has just reached 98,000 views on you tube. Check out the video on you tube here VIDEO
Rob Koier Films recently completed a commercial for the launch of a new product for the international company SEVENTH GENERATION. Check out the video on their web site HERE.
Rob Koier interviewed on VT PBS along with Executive Producer Nora Jacobson and fellow filmmaker Dorothy Todd for the VT PBS premiere of “Freedom & Unity: The Vermont Movie”. Check out the video here
Rob Koier’s short film, NORTH STAR is an Official Selection for the prestigious 2014 PBS Online Film Festival. Check out the film here
Great article in the Burlington, Vermont paper Seven Days about “Strength of the Storm”. Check the full article out here
Sharon Rae Quinn and Rob Koier interviewed live for the February 21st screening of “Strength of the Storm” on “The :30” a weekly news program on WCAX. Check out the interview here
A new article about Stowe Story Labs 2013 just came out on newenglandfilm.com. It features interviews with founder David Rocchio, participants Johnny DiGeorge and Rob Koier and a theme related pitch of one of Koier’s new scripts, “Love Hate”.
Check out the article here and the Facebook page for “Love Hate” here.
The Vermont Movie premiers September 27th at the Barre Opera House. This begins a state-wide tour of all six parts of the film. Rob Koier worked on several segments for this film, check out one here and visit http://thevermontmovie.com to find out more information about the film and it’s upcoming release.
The Vermont Community Foundation awards a Vermont Arts Endowment grant towards post-production for “Strength of the Storm”. You can find out more information about the VCF here.
Rob Koier was one of three people selected to receive a free merit fellowship to attend the River Arts run Stowe Story Labs to workshop his new script “The Underneath”. The workshop runs Sept. 14-16, 2013. Check out the link here for more information. The Vermont International Film festival is a partner for this workshop. Check them out here.
I Just registered a new Feature Length Script called, “Love Hate” with the WGA. The script is based on a short film I made with the same title: http://youtu.be/glsZi9Dv7tU
A new trailer for the up coming Feature length Documentary project, “Are You In Pain?” about America’s addiction to pain meds is now live on youtube and Facebook. Check out the trailer here: http://youtu.be/96T4AfwgJNA
Two Videos we made for Seventh Generation about their new personal care line are being featured on their web site. Check them out here: http://www.seventhgeneration.com/learn/videos
Recent videos we made for Seventh Generation are being promoted on their facebook page. Check out their new campaign, a 7 Day Journey into natural beauty here: 7 Day Journey
“Strength of the Storm” received a grant towards final post-production costs from the Bissell Foundation. You can see their web site here: http://www.bissellfoundation.com
We just finished up a three camera shoot with Bina 48 at VCAM‘s studio in Burlington, VT. The footage will be used for an upcoming ebook about Bina 48 and Lifenaut and for an upcoming New York City theater piece called “Love Machine” by Brooklyn based IMA. Check out the video for the performance here: http://vimeo.com/58938114
Lifenaut and Bina 48 return to Germany in March. They are using some of my stills to promote the event. Here is a link for more information:www.die-interaktiven.de/bina48
Two new videos made by RKFP are being used to help launch Seventh Generation’s new personal care product line. Check out the videos here: http://youtu.be/MlOFBdB4iSg and http://youtu.be/cANmxLNTSP8
Just finished up a new video for Tiger Style for their new iphone video game: “Waking Mars”, voted one of the best iOS games of 2012. They are working on converting the game to a PC version. Vote for them on the Steam Community site here: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=92975821
Check out “Waking Mars” here: http://www.wakingmars.com
New video for Goddard College and KSE Partners focusing on Goddard’s head chef Paul Somerset and his sustainable food program. http://www.goddard.edu/people/videos/goddard-food-program
RKFP just finished up an in depth series of twenty short testimonial videos for KSE Partners and Goddard College. They are featured on the new updated Goddard web site here: http://www.goddard.edu/
Rob Koier, Director of “Strength of the Storm” was interviewed live on The Weather Channel January 28th, 2012 to promote the central Vermont premier of the film. Check out the link here: http://youtu.be/CbsyGBdjU_0
Froggy FM from Barre, Vermont interviews Rob Koier, Director of the film “Strength of the Storm”. Check it out here: http://youtu.be/DhathVDeyB8
Strength of the Storm was featured on WPTZ Channel 5 news here in Vermont last week. They interviewed ex-Weston resident Sandy Gaffney and Director Rob Koier. You can see the video here: www.wptz.com/video/30299167/detail.html
Strength of the Storm will be shown on March 17, 2012 at 4pm at the Green Mountain Film Festival. After the film there will be a panel discussion with the mobile home park residents featured in the film and filmmaker Rob Koier. For more info about the film festival visit: http://www.greenmountainfilmfestival.org/ and to see the new, upgraded web site for the film visit: www.strengthofthestorm.org
The central Vermont premier of Strength of the Storm, a film Directed by Rob Koier and Produced by The Vermont Workers’ Center is coming up, January 28th at five pm at Barre’s Old Labor Hall in Barre, Vermont.
On August 28th, 2011, tropical storm Irene devastated many communities across southern and central Vermont. One week later, The Vermont Workers’ Center, a local non-profit, hired me to document the recovery effort. A very powerful story of a community coming together and organizing to create change emerged out the wreckage. I made a five minute trailer and a fifty-five minute long film about the recovery effort at Weston mobile park in Berlin, Vermont. More than just a film, this was a transformative experience for myself and the people that became the main characters of the movie. Their courage and resilience in the face of disaster is inspiring.
Our trailer for Tigerstyle’s iphone video game Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor just passed 100,000 views on You Tube.
Tigerstyle’s new iphone game, Waking Mars has been garnering lots of interest in anticipation of it’s official launch this winter.
A video we did last year for Lifenaut on the advanced friendship robot, Bina 48 just reached 13,564 views on youtube.
Seventh Generation was voted #1 Greenest Brand in the US this week. They hired us to shoot some footage at their Lake Street office for a quick video. Post-Production was handled by an outside company. http://www.seventhgeneration.com/learn/video/seventh-generation-named-1-greenest-brand-us
RKFP was recently hired to create opening and ending credits for a music video produced by Seventh Generation. The song, called “One Seed”, was written for Seventh Generation by children’s music artist, Laurie Berkner and performed by The Laurie Berkner Band. We made the opening and ending credits featuring an animated lady bug created by Nicolo DePierro. You can see it here: http://www.seventhgeneration.com/learn/video/laurie-berkner-makes-music-seventh-generation or on their You Tube channel here: http://youtu.be/Qx-9hfcKx6s
One of the pictures I took of Bina 48 for Lifenaut.com is being featured on Radio Lab’s web site. Check out the nationally syndicated show’s interesting take on “the world’s most sentient robot”. http://www.radiolab.org/2011/may/31/everyone-has-solar/
Briefly mentioned as current editor on Mac Parker’s film Birth Of Innocence in an article by Seven Days. http://www.7dvt.com/2011macs-missing-millions-plot-twists-abound-film-fundraising-probe
RKFP is editing a feature length film for visionary Director Mac Parker. The film is called Birth of Innocence. It charts the loss and recovery of our connection to our own unique inner-self. The film invites the audience out from the compulsive hyper-activity of modern media culture and allows them to enter a deeper, quieter space within themselves.
We recently produced a short documentary for Law Line of Vermont about southern Vermonter and low income advocate Edna Fairbanks-Williams. Check it out at the link below:
RKFP was interviewed last summer for the VSAC sponsored web site www.startwhereyouarevt.org Well they’ve just finished the site and you can see the interview here http://www.startwhereyouarevt.org/#/results
A feature length science fiction film (2B/Transhuman) that RKFP was hired to re-edit is now being shown as a “pitch-cut” to American and International film financiers. We were hired by Terasem Media and Films to re-structure, tighten the film and generate new sound design and visual effects. We worked with MoonBase9 Design on the visual effects. The film stars Kevin Corrigan (The Departed, Pineapple Express), James Remar(The Warriors, Dexter) and Jane Kim (Tie A Yellow Ribbon). Check out www.2bmovie.com or www.terasemfilms.com to find out more about the film.
Just finished up editing a film about a school in cambodia for Director Allan Nicholls. The school is run by a non-profit called Caring For Cambodia. For more information about Caring For Cambodia and their programs check out www.caringforcambodia.org
A video we produced four years ago for Seventh Generation under our old moniker “Black and Blue Productions” is being featured on the New York Times web site right now.
BEHIND CLOSED DOORS a short documentary we produced last year is playing on October 24th at 04:10 pm at Palace Cinema Nine in Burlington, VT. It’s part of the VT International Film Festival. www.vtiff.org
The video we recently finished for Terasem Movement Foundation about their high tech robot Bina 48 is now featured at Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence.
Over the summer, we produced an animated video about Ignaz Semmelweis and his discovery of germs for Vermont company Seventh generation. It’s being featured on their You Tube channel at this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8EkNJgc0nY
One of the promotional videos we did for Seventh Generation is being featured on their blog at www.seventhgeneration.com
The Certificate of registration for a script I wrote called “The Little Death” just showed up. Big thanks to Gordon Troy and WEBTM for this.
Just finished a twenty four minute rough cut of a film about last month’s show at the Firehouse Gallery, “Human = Landscape” for Burlington City Arts and The Energy Project. http://www.energyprojectvt.com/
Just received permission to use music by famous estonian composer Arvo Part in “The North Star”. This is a short film about a fugitive slave escaping from the south to Vermont that is part of The Vermont Movie. All of the narrated text was taken from original fugitive slave memoirs from the 1830s and rearranged/re-edited. You can see the film on the videos page. (www.thevermontmovie.com)
Just Finished producing a 2 minute trailer for Tigerstyle’s new iphone video game “Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor”. We worked very closely with Tigerstyle on this. The game has become one of the highest rated and best selling apps on iTunes today.
Here’s a link to their you tube page: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2MaK-shoqU
Finished new 17 minute cut of a documentary about Freemasons and the Anti-Masonic Movement in Vermont, called “Behind Closed Doors”. It’s one segment out of twenty or so for a film about Vermont called “The Vermont Movie: Freedom and Unity”. See www.thevermontmovie.com for more information.
Steve Williams from My First Days On Junk wanted to do a music video for the band that replicated scenes from Jean Luc Godard’s 1960s new wave masterpiece, “Breathless”. The result is this three minute music video for MFDOJ’s “Count Me in, I’m Good to Go”. Check the video out here: https://robkoier.com/music-videos/
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Rob Koier’s feature length screenplay, “The Little Death” has been accepted to the screenwriting competition at Oaxaca Film Festival for 2013. Heading to Mexico September 21st to 29th to attend.
We were in Rhinebeck, NY, last week filming interviews for an upcoming web series about chronic pain in America and America’s addiction to pain medication.
