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Interview with Jochen Hick in the February 2009 edition of EX-BERLINER, Berlins English sepaking magazine as PDF or as only text version.

THE GOOD AMERICAN premieres at Berlin Film Fest in February 2009 (Panorama)

For more information about the film please click here!
Panorama Festival screenings on Monday February 9, 2009 at 17:00 at Cinestar 7 (thereafter meet & greet @ Stadtklause, Bernburger Str. 30, 10963 Berlin, 5 min from Potsdamer Platz).
Wednesday Feb 11, 22:30 at Cinestar 7 and Thursday Feb 12, 15:30 at Colosseum 1.
Party @ HOMEBASE, Köthener Strasse 44 (5 mins walk from Cinestar) after 2nd screening on Wednesday - with DJ Minski!
For the english press booklet as PDF in English pls. click here. Press contact during Berlinale: Ira Kormannshaus +49-163-7323031 and press@galeria-alaska.de.

EAST/WEST - Sex & Politics Jochen Hicks latest documentary about the political fight and situation of Moscows "sexual minority" at festivals abroad.

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RAINBOW'S END the new version still showing on festivals worldwide. Out in Europe on DVD. Released in the U.S. by Frameline, San Francisco.

More information here. With the advent of same sex marriage, homosexuals have achieved near-equality in much of Europe. Everything is rosy, so why should they keep on fighting? A revealing and exciting journey from the center to the borders of Europe.
The recently accomplished documentary contains exclusive stories, portraits, interviews and footage of various events in Geneva (United Nations), Poland, London, Windsor, Amsterdam, Kiev, Minsk, Egypt and Lebanon. It also features an exclusive interview with the Gay mayor of Berlin, Klaus Wowereit.

Original Flyer for EFM: Front Back

Techs: a documentary by Jochen Hick & Christian Jentzsch - photography: Jochen Hick edited by Jörn Hartmann - produced by GALERIA ALASKA PRODUCTIONS/Jochen Hick - coproduction: ZDF in cooperation with ARTE (Claus Josten) - durations: 75’ (festival, video, theatrical), 63’ & 58’ (tv) commentary - versions: English, German - ratio: 1:1,33 - subtitles available: English, German, French, Spanisch, Portuguese, additional language versions on request. More detailled information at our PORTFOLIO area.

For United States bookings, festivals requests and educational distribution pls. contact Maura King at FRAMELINE DISTRIBUTION: www.frameline.org.

HALLELUJAH! Short about the Pope's visit in Cologne on many international Filmfestivals!

HALLELUJAH! (Documentary, Germany 2006, 6 Minutes, written by J. Hick & Karin Wallenczus, directed, filmed and produced by: Jochen Hick, editor: Jörn Hartmann).

World Youth Day, Cologne, 2005: The Pope is on his way in the Papamobile, but there are still three hours to kill. Enough time to sing and praise the Lord. A few gays and lesbians have come by too, with their own songs.

"A wonderful and comical snapshot." Bernd Sobolla in Deutschlandradio Kultur

"The Berlin short film festival offers the rare opportunity to watch a great film of Jochen Hick. In "Hallelujah" Hick documents the frenetically awaited Pope's visit un Cologne from an interetsting perspective. Long before the Papamobil arrives, Christian youth and homosexual counter demonstrators collide (...)" Siegessäule Berlin 11/06

Festivals (not complete): Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (Wettbewerb), Clermont-Ferrand, San Francisco G&L, ExGround Wiesbaden, Dokumentarfest Kassel, Shadow Festival Amsterdam, Filmfest Lünen, Barcelona G&LFF and many more.

CYCLES OF PORN - Sex/Life in L.A. Part 2 now out on DVD in Europe and the U.S..

"MOVIEGOERS PRAISE GAY ADULT DOCUMENTARY -'Cycles of Porn – Sex/Life in L.A., Part 2' opened the Panorama section of the Berlin Film Festival this week to rave reviews. Feb 11, 2005, Peter O'Conner in X-BIZ

"BERLIN CHEERS DOCUMENTARY ON GAY PORN FILMS - A documentary about the lives of aging porn actors that throws a harrowing spotlight on the gay film industry in Los Angeles opened the Panorama section of the Berlin Film Festival Friday to an enthusiatic reception. One of many films at this year's Berlinale examining sex and pornography, "Cycles of Porn -- Sex/Life in L.A. Part 2" by German filmmaker Jochen Hick takes its audience on a riveting journey into the world of low-budget sex films." Feb 11, 2005, Erik Kirschbaum in REUTERS

TALK STRAIGHT - The World Of Rural Queers

TALK STRAIGHT - The World Of Rural Queers on many film festivals worldwide. Theatrically released and shown on tv in Germany. It is now available on DVD in German (German Version).

The L.A. premiere of TALK STRAIGHT became #4 pick of all cultural events of the week for the Greater Los Angeles area in the online edition of the Calendar Weekly (Los Angeles Times). Please see also "Screening Room" column in the printed edition of Los Angeles Times of June 17 and Variety Review of January 2004.

"Not to be missed Jochen Hicks smart, funny, moving documentary TALK STRAIGHT - The World Of Rural Queers, in which Jochen Hick leaves the queer heaven of Berlin to the Swabian countryside to explore, what is is to be a provincial gay man." LA WEEKLY June 2004

Stills from TALK STRAIGHT - The World of Rural Queers

"Impossibly optimistic, outrageously clever and camp as concentration will allow."
Jerry Springer, MCV Arts, Melbourne
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Teddy Award 2003 for Best Doucmentary for TALK STRAIGHT - The World of Rural Queers. That's what the jury said. So far more than 60 festival inivitations around the world. Theatrical start in Germany on December 25, 2003 on five screens in Berlin. General start in Germany in February. Poster by Artworker/Gerd Huss (German poster on index site)

Quick guide to this site

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PORTFOLIO will show some of the films and projects we´ve realized through today. Details about current projects (in development / production / post production) are listed under COMING UP. In the DOWNLOAD - area you will find press releases, text and audio documents and printable stills, which can be saved on your hard disk.

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Talk Straight - The World of Rural Queers - No One Sleeps - Sex/Life in L.A. - Menmaniacs (The Legacy of Leather) - Via Appia - Höchste Eisenbahn - Airport Frankfurt - Wohnen in Berlin - Gerd Hansen, 55 - Willkommen im Dom - Hohe Absätze wirken Wunder - Veronika und der Briefträger - Wie entsteht ein Wolpertinger - Mond über Pittsburgh - Outing (Der heisse Stuhl) - Rekrutenausbildung in der Bundeswehr - Spiegel TV Reportage - Teufel im Paradies - Allein unter Heteros - Das falsche Loch - Ich kenn keinen - Straight Talk - The World of Rural Queers - EAST/WEST Sex & Politics