Unidentified Flying Studios
Creator/Director John Gibson began creating visual art at the age of 10 when his parents purchased a video camera that he quickly began using to make crude in-camera-edited movies with his friends. Being a resourceful young man he began implementing homegrown special effects that he came up with after realizing that mixing all the colors in a 4 pack of play-doh, except only half the blue, made a perfect flesh color. At the age when book reports were frequently assigned he was allowed by his teachers to do his reports as short remakes of such books as Animal Farm, Alien and Carrie to name a few.
John continued to pursue his love of movies throughout grade-school and college where he attended film school at the University of Texas at Arlington and worked at a large Dallas production company where he was able to get hands on experience working on commercial productions as a grip and Best Boy electric. He moved to Austin in January of 2001 where he worked as the Video Production Director for Gathering Of Developers, a video game publisher, where he was in charge of creating game trailers, behind the scenes videos and various other high-energy marketing and promotional materials. He was also the Director of Video Production at Substance TV, a DVD magazine where he traveled the US to shoot original stories about extraordinary people, places and ideas.
From 2002 until 2009 he was co-owner of Real Normal Productions where he worked with an extremely large number of clients including the Air Force, Pepsi, GSD&M, TribalDDB Dallas, Nokia, Frito Lay and many, many more. John is an avid film watcher and has been since the age of 4 when he saw his first film, Star Wars, at the theater. When he isn’t working, John loves to read, write screenplays, make films and sit outside on dark nights far from civilization with his beautiful wife and his telescope and gaze at the infinite universe. He continues to discover new ways to apply his talents to create dynamic and entertaining visual media to stimulate the mind and dazzle the eyes.
Rainey Gibson's love of entertainment began as a theater actor in a small town in Texas. She was only cast in parts where she had to play a drunk that was inevitably killed by the second act. Upon the 4th time she was cast as "drunk girl" she decided to quit acting and explore modern dance. She studied Modern Dance at the University of Texas at Austin until she realized that she couldn't picture herself wearing full body spandex for the rest of her life. With this realization she changed her major to Liberal Arts and decided to enter the world of non-profit for many years.
In 2007 she met her true love and they decided to make a short film together. Rainey produced "Future Farmer," a short sci-fi film rich in plot twists and amazing special effects. It was during this experience that she discovered her love of working behind the scenes on media projects. She's also a natural when it comes to producing and organization. Her hard work ethic and love of meeting new people keep her extremely busy in the world of visual media. Although she still enjoys getting drunk and wearing spandex, this has become a hobby and no longer a career path.
Producer/Director DivineGordon Asaah was born in Cameroon, West Africa, where he fell in love with movies at the age of six when he sneaked into a cinema and watched a few minutes of an action film before being brutally tossed out. Devoting his childhood to school drama, art, music clubs and Catholic Church Theater, he wrote, produced and directed an assortment of plays and amateur movies before graduating high school. He moved to the capital city of Yaoundé where he worked as an actor, writer, director, set designer and TV presenter, serving as president of one of Cameroon’s most renowned troupes -- The Yaoundé University Theatre.
He obtained a bilingual bachelor’s degree (English and French) in Performing Arts and was awarded a scholarship to study filmmaking in Greece. However, upon his arrival in Athens he learned that the film program had been suspended due to lack of funds. He pursued a diploma course in Modern Greek language and then studied Theater Arts at Aristotle University, Thessaloniki. Concurrently he worked as a lyricist, penning the words for the hit song Swing to Harmony for the band Perasma. He later moved to Germany and spent many years journeying across Europe working as a freelance photographer and amateur documentary filmmaker.
In 2004 DivineGordon immigrated to Hollywood, California, to pursue his greatest passion- a life behind the camera. He worked as a video store manager and movie extra. This enabled him to watch a lot of films and visit major studio lots. He soon landed on the set of Steven Spielberg’s War of the Worlds where he watched the legendary director in action and got invaluable advice from Spielberg’s director of photography Janusz Kaminski, who encouraged DivineGordon to learn cinematography by first mastering an inexpensive 35mm SLR and a 16mm camera as opposed to a digital camera with automatic features. DivineGordon followed Mr. Kaminki’s advice meticulously. In 2005 he founded Asaahland Pictures, produced and directed the action thriller Blood Sun Town while freelancing on other independent films and music videos. In early 2009 he joined Unidentified Flying studios as a producer and director. He is a trained movie theater projectionist and a naturalized United States citizen.