Jochen Hick (born April 2, 1960 in
Darmstadt
Darmstadt () is a city in the States of Germany, state of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Frankfurt Rhine Main Area, Rhine-Main-Area (Frankfurt Metropolitan Region). Darmstadt has around 160,000 inhabitants, making it th ...
) is a German film director and producer of mainly independent feature and documentary films, also specialising in
LGBT
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subjects. In 1994 he founded the film and TV production company GALERIA ALASKA PRODUCTIONS, based in Hamburg and Berlin. He worked and produced for several production companies and TV channels and contributed to TV documentary programs such as ARD-Exclusiv or SPIEGEL TV Reportage. 2007-2010 he is as well editor-in-chief, head of program acquisitions and co-programming director of TIMM, the first TV channel for gay male audiences in German speaking countries, which has been on the air since November 1, 2008.
His 2008 documentary ''
East/West – Sex & Politics'' concerns
Nikolai Alekseev's attempts to organise the 2007
Moscow Pride event.
His most recent project, the 2017 documentary ''
Mein wunderbares West-Berlin'' (''
My Wonderful West Berlin''), covers gay experiences in
West Berlin between the mid-1940s and the late 1980s and beyond. The film premiered in February 2017 at the
67th Berlin International Film Festival (aka Berlinale).
Filmography
* Mein wunderbares West-Berlin (My Wonderful West Berlin) (2017)
* The GDR Complex (2016)
* Out in East Berlin – Lesbians & Gays in the GDR (2013)
* DDR unterm Regenbogen (2011) (TV)
* The Good American (2009)
*
East/West – Sex & Politics (2008)
* Deutschland – Ein Herbstmärchen (2007)
* Hallelujah! (2006)
* Rainbow's End (2006)
* Am Ende des Regenbogens (2005) (TV)
* Cycles of Porn: Sex/Life in L.A., Part 2 (2005)
*
Talk Straight: The World of Rural Queers (2003)
* No One Sleeps (2000)
* Sex/Life in L.A. (1998)
* Menmaniacs – The Legacy of Leather (1995)
* Welcome to the Dome (1992)
* Via Appia (1990)
* Gerd Hansen, 55 (1987)
* Moon Over Pittsburgh (1985)
* Die Gedaechtnisluecke (1982)
Awards
*The 2003
Teddy Award for Best Documentary at the
53rd Berlin International Film Festival
The 53rd annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from February 6–16, 2003. The festival opened with musical film ''Chicago (2002 film), Chicago'' by Rob Marshall and closed with Martin Scorsese's ''Gangs of New York'', both films pla ...
for ''Talk Straight: The World Of Rural Queers''.
External links
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References
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Film people from Hesse
Living people
1960 births
Mass media people from Darmstadt