Jochen Hick

{{Short description|German film director and producer}}

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Jochen Hick (born April 2, 1960, in Darmstadt) 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,{{cite web |url=http://www.galeria-alaska.de/ |title=Home |website=galeria-alaska.de}} 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,{{cite web |url=http://www.timm.de/ |title=Home |website=timm.de}} the first TV channel for gay male audiences in German speaking countries, which has been on the air since November 1, 2008.{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0382569/|title=Jochen Hick|website=IMDb}}

His 2008 documentary East/West – Sex & Politics concerns Nikolai Alekseev's attempts to organise the 2007 Moscow Pride event.{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1176103/|title = East/West: Sex & Politics (2008) - IMDb|website = IMDb}}

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).{{Cite web|url=https://www.berlinale.de/de/programm/berlinale_programm/datenblatt.php?film_id=201710598#tab=filmStills/|title = Mein wunderbares West-Berlin | My Wonderful West Berlin}} His most recent film is [https://www.queer-exile-berlin.de Queer Exile Berlin] (2023), being the third part of a trilogy about queer life in Berlin (which also includes [https://www.galeria-alaska.de/films/out_e/index.html Out in East Berlin] of 2013.

Jochen Hick's feature films have been shown at many international film festivals and have been included in the official program of the Berlinale a total of twelve times{{Cite news |last=Hick |first=Jochen |date=2009-01-26 |title=Berlinale: Der Berlinalist |url=https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/kino/berlinale-der-berlinalist-a-603569.html |access-date=2024-05-13 |work=Der Spiegel |language=de |issn=2195-1349}} since 1992. Hick was also co-initiator and founding board member of the documentary film platform docfilm42,{{Cite web |last=docfilm42 |date=2019-11-30 |title=docfilm42 - Who we are and how everything started |url=https://docfilm42.com/docfilm42-who-we-are-and-how-everything-started/ |access-date=2024-05-13 |website=docfilm42 |language=en-US}} which first went online in 2019.