crice@mcad.edu
https://cartouchecreative.com/
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BIO 

Craig Laurence Rice is a long established award-winning internationally recognized 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.

Notable television credits include Producer of We Teach Our Children for CBS, 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. Executive Producer on the nationally syndicated series Million Dollar Idea.

As a commercial award-winning director and producer Rice has helmed 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.

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

Rice holds degrees 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 studies in theater and filmmaking at the University of Minnesota.

TEACHING PHILOSOPHY & MENTORSHIP

I teach to the student’s passion for excellence in the creative field they want to belong. I like to work with a student to find out their talents and skills and help them move beyond what they think they can do. What I like about mentoring when they finish the program, looking into their eyes and see that they see their possibilities of their desired goals.