Jochen Hick is a German film director and producer of mainly independent feature and documentary films, also specialising in LGBT

LGBT

LGBT is an initialism that collectively refers to "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender" people. In use since the 1990s, the term "LGBT" is an adaptation of the initialism "LGB", which itself started replacing the phrase "gay community" beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s, which many within the...

 subjects. In 1994 he founded the film and TV production company GALERIA ALASKA PRODCTIONS, 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 most recent film is the 2008 documentary East/West - Sex & Politics, about Nikolai Alekseev

Nikolai Alekseev

Nikolay Alexandrovich Alexeyev, also written in English as Alekseyev, Alekseev and Alexeev born on December 23, 1977 in Moscow) is a Russian LGBT rights activist, lawyer and journalist....

's attempts to organise the 2007 Moscow Pride

Moscow Pride

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 event.

Filmography

• 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 and prizes

• The Teddy Award for Best Documentary at the Berlin Film Festival for TALK STRAIGHT - The World Of Rural Queers"