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Chip Gubera is an American film director and producer. He is also a digital media instructor at the University of Missouri (Mizzou).

Personal life
Chip Gubera currently lives in Columbia, Missouri where he teaches digital media in the Information Technology Program at the University of Missouri. He also freelances as a visual effects/motion graphics artist and a music composer.

Film
In the last 10 years Chip Gubera has directed and/or produced four feature films and over 30 short films, 17 of which have been accepted at film festivals around the world. Eight of these films have won awards at festivals worldwide and three have had distribution. A short film titled Song of the Dead was released in 2004 on Fangoria Magazine’s Blood Drive hosted by Rob Zombie. From the short film came the feature length zombie-musical also titled Song of the Dead. Song of the Dead, Gubera’s first feature film starring Reggie Bannister (Phantasm series and Bubba Ho-Tep), has currently been screened at several national and international festivals and has won awards in the US, Spain, and Argentina.

Gubera directed two feature films in conjunction with the University of Missouri starring legendary Mexican masked wrestler Mil Mascaras. The films are titled Academy of Doom and Mil Mascaras Vs. The Aztec Mummy, which he co-directed with Jeff Burr. Both of these films screened at festivals around the world. In the summer of 2009, both Song of the Dead and Mil Mascaras Vs. The Aztec Mummy found a limited US theatrical release. In 2010 Mil Mascaras Vs. The Aztec Mummy was screened to an enthusiastic audience at the Fantasia Film Festival.

More recently Gubera won Best Visual Effects at the St. Louis Filmmaker’s Showcase 2010 for a short film called A Christmas Prayer.