Forgetting Dad 2008 Documentary, HDCam, stereo, color, 83', color One week after a seemingly harmless car accident, a 45-year-old man suffers total amnesia. Christening himself the “New Richard,” he embarks upon a new life with a new wife far away from his family. Sixteen years later, his oldest son returns with a camera to investigate why his father’s memory never returned.
	Homemade Hillbilly Jam 2005 Documentary, Super16 mm, stereo, color, 80’ Hillbillies haven’t died off; they’ve simply become neo-hillbillies. Three families of musicians in the Ozark Mountains of Southwestern Missouri give new meaning to the word “hillbilly.” Float down the backwaters, soak up some old time religion, savor a washboard duel, and bask in the neon lights of the pseudo-hillbilly showtown Branson. Lean back and merge into hillbilliness.
	Heaven on Earth 2001 Documentary, Super16 mm, Dolby SR, color, 52’ Branson, Missouri. Some call it the new Nashville or the Las Vegas of the Bible Belt. Over the past ten years, nearly 40 theaters have shot out of the ground in this once sleepy Ozark Mountain town of fewer than 4000 inhabitants. Here in America’s heartland, country legends and television and stage stars from yesteryear have reincarnated themselves and offer up good ol' patriotic, Christian entertainment to six million tourists annually.
	Good Guys & Bad Guys 1997 Documentary film, Super 16mm, Dolby SR, color, 73’ "Good Guys & Bad Guys" is a post-Cold War romp through suburban Los Angeles. In 1996, Rick Minnich returned to his native California for his ten-year high school class reunion to confront the right-wing suburban "patriots" who had made his life miserable during the Reagan era. The result is an entertaining and provocative look at what has become of the "Good Guys & Bad Guys" of yesteryear.

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Short Films

Delphi 1830 
Beim nächsten Mal wird alles besser ('Next Time Everything Will Be Better')
The Book of Lenins
The Godfather of Bubbles

Current Projects


Ibogaine - The Way Out? - The follow-up project to FORGETTING DAD focusing on Rick's brother Justin, who provides some of the film's most moving scenes. Two brothers travel from the US to South Africa in search of a miraculous cure for the younger brother’s heroin addiction. Please visit our crowd funding site and help us get this project off the ground. Thanks!

Crossing the Bering Strait - Taking its cue from a childhood fantasy to walk from Alaska to Russia, CROSSING THE BERING STRAIT explores life along one of the world’s most remote and treacherous waterways – the narrow strait separating Asia and North America - and the people behind the ambitious plans to link the two continents by tunnel.