Rick Minnich

Rick Minnich was born on Jun 14, 1968 in USA. Rick Minnich's big-screen debut came with The Bomb Hunters directed by Rick Minnich in 2015. Rick Minnich is known for The Strait Guys directed by Rick Minnich, George M. Koumal stars as Self and Joseph R. Henri as Self. Rick Minnich has got 9 awards and 1 nominations so far. The most recent award Rick Minnich achieved is Dallas Video Festival. The upcoming new movie Rick Minnich plays is The Strait Guys which will be released on Jan 01, 2022.

Rick Minnich is an American independent filmmaker based in Berlin, Germany. He holds a B.A. in English from Columbia University and an MFA equivalent in film directing from the Film University Babelsberg "Konrad Wolf" in Germany. Rick Minnich has been writing, directing and producing shorts and feature documentaries since 1993 through his companies Rickfilms and Our Man in Berlin and in association with various German, European, and North American broadcasters, film funds, and production companies. His award-winning films include: "The Book of Lenins" (24 min., 1996), "Heaven on Earth" (50 min., 2001, IDFA, Fipa d'Or Biarritz), "Homemade Hillbilly Jam" (80 min, 2005, Premiere at HotDocs, closing night film True/False 2006, distributed by First Run Features), "Forgetting Dad" (84 min, 2008, Premiere: IDFA - Special Jury Award, True/False, Full Frame, Hot Docs, Grand Jury Prize at GZ DOC in Guangzhou, China, Shortlisted for the German Film Award 'Lola' - German Oscar), "The Bomb Hunters" (52 min., 2015), "The Strait Guys" (99 min., 2022). Currently he is working on the feature documentary "The Presidents' Tailor" about the Holocaust survivor and presidential tailor Martin Greenfield.