Alan Hicks is a Grammy Award-Winning filmmaker based in Sydney and Los Angeles. After working as a musician in and around New York, Hicks transitioned to filmmaking, directing his first feature documentary Keep On Keepin’ On, winning both the Audience Award and Best New Director honors at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival. The film also won awards from the IDFA, AFI, Cinema Eye, Seattle Film Festival, Palm Springs, Hamptons Summer Docs and went onto be shortlisted for the Academy Awards Best Documentary Feature in 2015.
Hicks then co-directed the documentary feature film QUINCY, following music legend and icon Quincy Jones. QUINCY premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2018, before a worldwide premiere on Netflix. The film received the Critics’ Choice Honor for Best Music Documentary, the African American Film Critics Award for Best Documentary. QUINCY was included in the Doc NYC Short List, the Hollywood Reporter’s Top Ten Films of 2018, was honored as a New York Times Critics’ Pick and won the Grammy for Best Music Film.
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AWARDS:
2020 - Best Short Documentary - LIV | Boulder International Film Festival
2020 - People's Choice Award - LIV | Boulder International Film Festival
2020 - Remi Award - LIV | Houston International Film Festival
2020 - The Ophelia Award - LIV | Cleveland International Film Festival
2019 - Best Music Film - Quincy | Grammy Awards
2019 - Outstanding Documentary - QUINCY | Black Reel Awards
2018 - Best Music Documentary - QUINCY | Critics' Choice Documentary Awards
2018 - Best Documentary - QUINCY | Black Film Critics Circle Awards
2018 - Best Documentary Top 10 Films - QUINCY | African-American Film Critics Association
2018 - Best Music Documentary - Quincy | Hollywood Music In Media Awards
2015 - Audience Choice - Keep On Keepin’ On | Cinema Eye Honors Award
2015 - The Unforgettables - Keep On Keepin’ On | Cinema Eye Honors Award
2015 - Audience Award - Keep On Keepin’ On | Palm Springs International Film Festival
2014 - Audience Award - Keep On Keepin’ On | Tribeca Film Festival
2014 - Best New Documentary Director - Alan Hicks | Tribeca Film Festival
2014 - Best Documentary - Keep On Keepin’ On | Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival
2014 - Audience Award - Keep On Keepin’ On | Aspen Filmfest
2014 - Best Documentary - Keep On Keepin’ On | Black Film Critics Circle Awards
2014 - Top Five Documentaries - Keep On Keepin’ On | National Board of Review
2014 - Outstanding Achievement in Filmmaking - Keep On Keepin’ On | Newport Beach Film Festival
2014 - John Schlesinger Award - Keep On Keepin’ On | Provincetown International Film Festival
2014 - Golden Space Needle Award Best Documentary - Keep On Keepin’ On | Seattle International Film Festival
2014 - Audience Award - Keep On Keepin’ On | Tallgrass International Film Festival
PRESS:
NEW YORK TIMES - NYT Critic's Pick - “QUINCY Captures a Lifelong Love Affair With Music” - Sept. 20, 2018
ROLLING STONE - ‘Quincy’: 10 Things We Learned From New Quincy Jones Doc - Sept 21, 2018
MALIBU TIMES - Documentary Darlings - Oct 12, 2018
AWARDS DAILY - Quincy – Essential Viewing Into The Making Of A Musical Genius - Sept 18, 2018
B.G.N. - TIFF 2018 Review: ‘Quincy’ - Sept 10, 2018
THE DECIDER - ‘Quincy’ Is A Loving Homage To Legendary Musician And Producer Quincy Jones - Sept 22, 2018
INDEPENDENT - Rashida Jones chronicles her father's monumental contribution to black history - Sept 21 2018
ROGEREBERT.COM - Music, Life, and Everything Between: Quincy Jones and Alan Hicks on Quincy - Sept 19 2018
NEW YORK TIMES - Something in Common With His Mentor, Talking to Justin Kauflin - Sept 26, 2014
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL - A Lot of Faith, Warmth and Trust When We ‘Keep On Keepin’ On’ - Oct 2, 2014
USA TODAY - Ailing jazz icon Clark Terry keeps faith in 'Keep On' - by Edna Gundersen
VANITY FAIR - Keep On Keepin’ On: The Best Movie You Haven’t Heard Of This Year - July 24, 2014
ROLLING STONE - Q Scores: Quincy Jones on Sinatra, Mentorship and His New Documentary - by Eric Hynes
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER - ‘Keep On Keepin' On': Provincetown Review - by David Rooney
NEW YORK TIMES, CRITICS NOTEBOOK - The Young: Lost and Alienated The Tribeca Film Festival Begins Its 13th Season - by Stephen Holden
THE DAILY BEAST - Quincy Jones Talks Chicago’s Mean Streets, Why Kanye West Is No Michael Jackson, and Bieber - by Marlow Stern
AMSTERDAM NEWS - ‘Keep On Keepin' On,' Ravi and Chick reviews - by Ron Scott
APM MARKETPLACE - Quincy Jones on Clark Terry, a godfather of jazz - by Kai Ryssdal
ASBURY PARK PRESS/GANNETT WIRE - Quincy Jones and Alan Hicks on 'Keep On Keepin' On' - by Alex Biese
CBS ATLANTA - Review by Mike McKinney, 5/5 stars
EDGE MEDIA NETWORK - Review by Killian Melloy
FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL - Review by Kevin Lally
FILM-FORWARD - Review by Nora Lee Mandel
HUFFINGTON POST BLACK VOICES - How Jazz Pioneer Clark Terry Helped A Blind Piano Prodigy Become A Star
INDIE NYC - Interview: Alan Hicks, Director - ‘Keep On Keepin’ On’ - by David Teich
LAST ONE TO LEAVE THE THEATRE - Review
METRO - Interview: Quincy Jones on his ‘Keep on Keepin’ On’ mentor Clark Terry, plus his first film - by Matt Prigge
MOVIE PIE - Hot Docs 2014 #2: Heroes and Legends
A.V. CLUB - Jazz legend Clark Terry finds a new protege in Keep On Keepin' On - by A.A. Dowd - Oct 03 2014
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS - Review by Joe Neumaier
NEW YORK POST - Trumpeter Clark Terry takes center stage in ‘Keep on Keepin’ On’ - by Farran Smith Nehme
PASTE MAGAZINE - Review by Brent Simon
SHADOW & ACT (INDIEWIRE) - Interview: 93-Year-Old Jazz Legend Clark Terry - by Jai Tiggett
SHAKEFIRE - Review by Matt Rodriguez
SLANT MAGAZINE - Review by Timothy E. Raw
THE BLOT MAGAZINE - A Jazz Legend and Blind Piano Prodigy Bond for Life - by Dorri Olds
THE DISSOLVE - Review by David Ehrlich