About CRAIG

Craig Laurence Rice is a long established award-winning filmmaker internationally recognized for his distinguished career in the film, video, television, theater and music industries.

Some of his previous work includes being Executive Producer / Director for the feature length documentary Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks for HBO, which was nominated for three Emmy awards, and an NAACP Image Award.  The documentary was also selected to the Museum of Television and Radio in the year 2000, and won the Tree of Life Award from The Friends of the Motion Picture Academy.

In Addition, he has been in the DGA since 1984 and has served as a Second Unit director and Assistant Director on about 20 long form and feature-length films including Graffiti Bridge, Purple Rain, Brother From Another Planet and Joe Somebody.

Notable television credits include Producer of We Teach Our Children for CBS, Executive Producer on the nationally syndicated series Million Dollar Idea, Producer for the 90-minute PBS variety show A The Prairie Home Companion 30th, Producer for New Dramas for Television for The Eugene O’ Neill Theater Center for 4 seasons. Laurel Avenue a limited series for HBO, Once Upon A Tree series for Animal Planet.

He has also produced and directed 30 music videos with artists including Prince, Mavis Staples, Mazarati, Patti LaBelle, and Sounds of Blackness.

He has been creatively involved in theater as assistant to Joe Papp at The Public Theater in New York City and was Executive Director of the Alchemy Theater Company for two years.

Rice holds a Production Degree from the University of Southern California Cinema Department, Filmmaking and Photography at the Minneapolis College of Art & Design and a Liberal Arts degree from Minneapolis Community and Technical College and studied theater and filmmaking at the University of Minnesota.