Craig Rice

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

He was also Executive Producer / Director of the widely revered for the feature length documentary Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks for HBO, which was nominated for three Emmy awards, winner of the Tree of Life Award from The Friends of the Motion Picture Academy, NAACP Image Award, it was also selected to the Museum of Television and Radio in the year 2000.

In addition, he has various credits serving as a Second Unit director and Assistant Director on about 20 productions, long form and feature-length films including Graffiti Bridge, Purple Rain, Brother From Another Planet and Joe Somebody. He has also directed and produced 30 music videos and over 50 commercials for clients such as Amoco, Nike, Target, Kraft, United Way, McDonald’s, and the Partnership for Drug Free America. And most recently producer of two Silver Clio award winning spots for General Mills.

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

Also has been Adjunct Professor of Filmmaking at Minneapolis College of Art and Design since 2007.

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