Gerber Rigler co-founded the Digital Hollywood Content Summit, a 4-day track for storytellers and transmedia content creators presented amongst others by the WGA, SAG, PGA, AFI DCL and the IDA and returning to the Digital Hollywood conference and trade show for the third time May 3-6 in 2010.

Current high-profile projects include an Ivory Trade awareness campaign for the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), and a book campaign for the Participant Media & Puffin / Penguin Books release Girls Gone Green about teenagers and sustainability, both exploring the nexus of celebrity culture and social activism.

Their 20-part Babelgum Original Series "Sex and the Austen Girl" is set to premiere on the broadband network's comedy channel in May. The webseries is based on the best-selling novels Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict and its parallel story / sequel, Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict which Gerber Rigler are developing for online, motion picture and TV series adaptation, both published by Dutton & Plume, Penguin Books (USA) and Bloomsbury (UK).

Gerber Rigler recently presented a new environmental online initiative for the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation during AFI DigiFest in November 2009. The series of quarterly digital challenges was incubated at the AFI Digital Content Lab in Hollywood, where the team serves as industry mentors.

In 2008, Gerber Rigler launched Documentary.org, a buzzing video and content hub sponsored by Adobe and IDA serving the documentary filmmaking community that the Hollywood Reporter described as having ‘gorgeous design and clean navigation.’

Overseeing all of Documentary.org’s technical and design decisions, online content production, digital outreach and editorial initiatives, Brian and Thomas serve on the board of directors of the International Documentary Association, an LA-based, globally active non-profit organization dedicated to documentary filmmakers.

Gerber Rigler are currently providing digital brand strategy and viral outreach for the award-winning documentary Food Fight which premiered at AFI Fest and won the IDA Audience Award, as well as other clients in the film and publishing community.

Brian Gerber is the award-winning producer of Tree Media Group’s full-length environmental feature documentary The 11th Hour featuring Leonardo DiCaprio, distributed by Warner Bros., and the groundbreaking accompanying branded online community 11th Hour Action. Through Tree Media, Brian drove an initiative that registered over 1 Million youth voters during the 2004 and 2006 presidential elections for Norman Lear’s Declare Yourself online voter drive.

With several indie features like Bug and Briar Patch under his belt, Brian previously spent four years as Director of Development at Alphaville, a feature film production company at Paramount Pictures, a tenure that included their launch of the successful The Mummy franchise starring Brendan Fraser.

Brian has produced media projects across multiple platforms for Starbucks, The Weather Channel, Universal, Disney, Paramount, Fox, PBS, JPL, Harvard, Global Green USA, the International Fund for Animal Welfare, Heal the Bay, TreePeople, Bioneers, and the Scripps Oceanographic Institute. He was responsible for dozens of multi-media projects with including the Gorbachev Library, the Council on Foreign Relations, and Foreign Affairs Magazine among others.  Projects range from videos and virals to flash games and websites.

Brian started out working in music videos in his native Atlanta, GA, for indie act R.E.M., graduated from the American Film Institute’s screenwriting program and has overseen production for indie features and award-winning music documentaries on Elvis Costello, Diana Krall, Jimmy Scott, Patti LaBelle, Luna, Allen Toussaint, Joe Henry and Bad Religion.  Most recently, Brian produced the feature documentary film "The Dungeon Masters" which premiered at the 2008 Toronto Film Festival.

Brian also serves as head of production at The Sheppard, an established Los Angeles production facility and event production agency.