Weinrich was born in Pittsburgh in 1951 and grew up in Calgary; he was valedictorian of his graduating class at Viscount Bennett High School in 1978.
[1] After working as an assistant to Oliver Stone, Weinrich returned to Calgary and founded Red Motel Pictures.
He produced and directed the 1990 documentary Moon of the Desperados, about the American Bullrider,[2] which was nominated for Best Sports Program at the 5th Gemini Awards.
[5] In 2018, it released The Last Three Days of Lydia Ramirez, a short film that tells the story of a five year-old migrant girl who died of thirst at the Texas borner.
[6] A 2018 Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for the production of the film The Invention of Beauty: The Life and Times of Eileen Ford was unsuccessful.