Jochen Hick, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Jochen Hick

German film director

Date of Birth: 02-Apr-1960

Place of Birth: Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany

Profession: screenwriter, film director, film producer

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Jochen Hick (born April 2, 1960) is a German film director 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.
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).