Jochen Hick
Biography
Jochen Hick is a German film director, author and producer of mainly independent feature and documentary films, also specialising in LGBT 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. He has also been author of tv programs for arte, 3sat, SAT1, RTL. 2007-2010 he is as well editor-in-chief, head of program acquisitions and co-programming director of TIMM TV, the first TV channel for gay male audiences in German speaking countries, which has been on the air 2008-2010. Since 2011 Jochen Hick also works as part time lecturer at the dffb (Deutsche Film und Fernsehakademie Berlin). He was co-founder and founding board member of the documentary film portal docfilm42 and is member of the Deutsche Filmakademie (The German Film Academy) and of the AG DOK (German Documentary Association).
Filmography
Selection of feature length theatrical films and short films as director, author and (except VIA APPIA) as producer:
2023 QUEER EXILE BERLIN (feature documentary)
2017 MY WONDERFUL WEST BERLIN (MEIN WUNDERBARES WEST-BERLIN – feature documentary)
2016 THE GDR-COMPLEX (DER OST-KOMPLEX – feature documentary/co-autor/director: Andreas Strohfeldt)
2013 OUT IN EAST BERLIN (OUT IN OST-BERLIN – feature documentary)
2009 THE GOOD AMERICAN (feature documentary)
2008 EAST/WEST – SEX & POLITICS (feature documentary)
2006 DEUTSCHLAND – EIN HERBSTMÄRCHEN (GERMANY – AN AUTUMN TALE – short)
2006 HALLELUJAH! (short)
2005 RAINBOW’S END (AM ENDE DES REGENBOGENS – feature documentary / co-author/director: Christian Jentzsch)
2005 CYCLES OF PORN (feature documentary)
2003 TALK STRAIGHT – THE WORLD OF RURAL QUEERS (ICH KENN KEINEN – ALLEIN UNTER HETEROS – feature documentary)
2000 NO ONE SLEEPS (feature fiction)
1998 SEX/LIFE IN L.A. (feature documentary)
1995 MENMANIACS – THE LEGACY OF LEATHER (documentary)
1992 WELCOME TO THE DOME (WILLKOMMEN IM DOM – short documentary)
1990 VIA APPIA (feature fiction)
1987 GERD HANSEN, 55 (short)
1985 MOON OVER PITTSBURGH (MOND ÜBER PITTSBURGH – short)
Thomas Keller
Editor
Thomas studied film and theater at Giessen and at Bristol University and has a 15 year history working in the creative field. After moving from the UK to Berlin, he moved his focus to film and the documentary field, working both as an editor and camera person for independent production companies and for tv broadcasts. He mainly works on issue based, feature-length documentary films, where he aims to combine powerful storytelling with a genuine observational style.
As editor, his films include: THE GOOD AMERICAN, OUT IN EAST BERLIN, COLONIAL EDUCATION, SONNTAGS IN BERLIN, THE EAST COMPLEX, BECAUSE OF WHO I AM, and THE FOOD CURE.
Thomas lives and works in Berlin.
www.t-keller.com
Andreas Strohfeldt
Assistant/Collaborator
Born in 1962, he studied in Moscow before moving to Saint Petersburg, where he organized Queer Cinema screenings and retrospectives. He has written and directed various short films. He is certified interpreter for Russian language. Since 2007 he works for various projects of GALERIA ALASKA PRODUCTIONS. He was co-author and co-director of the documentary DDR UNTERM REGENBORGEN (rbb, 2011) and OUT IN EAST BERLIN (2013) – both together with Jochen Hick.