Ralph Kinnard (born Ralf Graessner, in Germany) is an American film director and acting coach. He has won “Best Director” at the L.A. Arpa Foundation for Film, Music and Art and “Best Foreign Film”, NYC Downtown Film Festival, participated in Marche du Film del Cannes Film Festival “As you like it” (''A MÍ ME GUSTA''). The feature was also part of the official selection of the Calcutta Film Festival 2009, the Mérida Film Festival ( Mérida, Venezuela) 2009, the Havana Film Festival 2009 and the Margarita Film Festival 2009. He received the “ MARA DE ORO” for best movie director in 2009.

Biography

Born in Germany, he studied at the Andy Geer theater school in Munich at age 19. He then joined the Philippe Gaulier

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Institute in London; and he continued his studies in the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, where he graduated in Acting and Directing. In 1996 he took filming courses in the New York University Film School New York University. In 1995 he directed The Chorus Girl and The Donahue Sisters in the Marilyn Monroe Theater in New York. He worked as Director’s Assistant in plays like ''In Search of Strindberg'' at the Actors Studios, (NY 1995), Flushed for Akika Productions, (NYC 1996) and As she walked through the fair, with the BBC London (NYC 1996). He also had the opportunity of being Production Assistant in Woody Allen's ''CELEBRITY'' (1998). He has directed short films such as: Brotherlove, (New York 1996); Slipped, (New York 1997) and Oda a la mujer (Caracas 2000). He was director’s assistant in Transgressions, for the BBC London/ New York, and for the German

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Tris-Star (New York 1997); he also directed plays like ''Buscando a Strindberg'', (Teatro Doris Wells,

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2000) and in Shakespeare interactivo (Teatro Doris Wells, Caracas 2001). In 2007 he worked as director in the short film ''Ausente'' (Caracas), which was selected to participate in th
Los Angeles International Short Film Festival
Kinnard has worked as an acting professor, lecturer and acting advisor for over 10 years working in every major TV channel in Venezuela. In 2008, he directed his first feature ''A Mí Me Gusta'

that entered the official selection of th
Kalkota Film Festival

Filmography

* 2006 ''Francisco de Miranda'' - Pitt * 2008 ''A Mi Me Gusta'' - Director. * 2017 ''

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'' - Benedict. Also as director, writer, executive producer.

Personal life

Kinnard's wife is Mónica Pasqualotto, a Venezuelan actress

References

External links

*
Ralph Kinnard at filmaffinity.com
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kinnard, Ralph Living people American film directors American film producers German expatriates in the United States Year of birth missing (living people)