Ralph Kinnard

Ralph Kinnard has been teaching for over fifteen years, acting and directing to hundreds of actors,[1] directors, models, TV and radio hosts. He is a successful director himself (winner “Best Director” L.A. Arpa Foundation for Film, Music and Art 2010, Winner “Best Foreign Film”, NYC Downtown Film Festival 2010, participating in Marche du Film del Cannes Film Festival 2009) with his latest production “as you like it” (A MÍ ME GUSTA). The feature was also part of the official selection of the Calcutta Film Festival 2009, the Mérida Film Festival (Mérida, Venezuela) 2009, the Havana Film Festival 2009 and the Margarita Film Festival 2009. He received the “MARA DE ORO” for best movie director in 2009.

Biography

Born in Germany (full name: Ralf Graessner), he studied at the Andy Geer theater school in Munich at age 19. His passion for the scenic arts led him to London where he joined the Philippe Gaulier Performing Arts Institute; and he continued his studies in the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute Theater Institute, where he graduated in Acting and Directing. In 1996 he took filming courses in the New York University Film School New York University. In 1995 he directed The Chorus Girl and The Donahue Sisters in the Marilyn Monroe Theater in New York.

He worked as Director’s Assistant in plays like In Search of Strindberg at the Actor's Studios, (NY 1995), Flushed for Akika Productions, (NYC 1996) and As she walked through the fair, with the BBC London (NYC 1996). He also had the opportunity of being Production Assistant in Woody Allen's CELEBRITY (1998).

Throughout his career has directed short films like: Brotherlove, (New York 1996); Slipped, (New York 1997) and Oda a la mujer (Caracas 2000). He was director’s assistant in Transgressions, for the BBC London/ New York, and for the German film Sausages for Columbia Tris-Star (New York 1997); he also directed plays like Buscando a Strindberg, (Teatro Doris Wells, Caracas 2000) and in Shakespeare interactivo (Teatro Doris Wells, Caracas 2001). In 2007 he worked as director in the short film Ausente (Caracas), which was selected to participate in the Los Angeles International Short Film Festival.

Kinnard has worked as an acting professor, lecturer and acting advisor for over 10 years working in every major TV channel in Venezuela. In 2008, he directed his first feature A Mí Me Gusta , that entered the official selection of the Kalkota Film Festival and has been a major success in Venezuela.

Studies

Experience

Director and producer

Acting coach

Public speaker and motivational speaker

References

  1. "Mónica Pascualoto y Ralph Kinnard se casan". El Universal (in Spanish). December 30, 2009. Retrieved 27 September 2011.

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