Principals

Brian is the award-winning producer of Leonardo DiCaprio’s full-length environmental feature documentary The 11th Hour, 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 serves on the Board of the International Documentary Association.

Thomas Rigler is an award-winning filmmaker, Transmedia producer and former TV development executive who has held executive positions at venture capital start-up Nixle.com and E! Networks, and produced and directed primetime programming for E!, Style, Food Network, Fine Living, CNET, ZDF, Arte, ORF, Pro7 and 3SAT.

While at Comcast Entertainment Group, Thomas helped build several media production groups for the Style and E! Networks from the ground up to internally produce domestic and international programming for localized content distribution in Australia, New Zealand, South America, the UK, Italy, Germany, France and the Middle East. As Style and E!’s first New Media Executive, Thomas oversaw the launch of several global broadband, video on demand and mobile initiatives, executive producing hundreds of hours of programming.

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.

He is a member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the Producers Guild of America, the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences and an alumni of the American Film Institute’s Digital Content Lab.