---
name: "Alan Hicks"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/alan-hicks-2193198"
fi1m_id: "alan-hicks-2193198"
imdb_id: "nm5502999"
tmdb_id: 2193198
wikidata_id: "Q114012257"
roles: ["Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T05:43:29.987086+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Alan Hicks

## Identity

Alan Hicks

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/alan-hicks-2193198
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** alan-hicks-2193198
- **IMDb ID:** nm5502999
- **TMDB ID:** 2193198
- **Wikidata ID:** Q114012257
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q114012257, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5502999/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2193198

Director. Born in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Also known as:** Al Hicks
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q114012257, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5502999/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2193198

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Quincy*](https://film.one/film/quincy.md) (63)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Alan Hicks is an Australian documentary filmmaker and former musician. Born in Wollongong, New South Wales, he studied jazz at William Paterson University in New Jersey before transitioning to film.

His debut feature *Keep On Keepin’ On* (2014), about jazz trumpeter Clark Terry, won the Audience Award and Best New Director prize at the Tribeca Film Festival, along with awards at IDFA and other festivals, and was shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Hicks co-directed and co-wrote the 2018 Netflix documentary *Quincy* with Rashida Jones. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and won the Grammy Award for Best Music Film.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, alhicksfilms.com, illawarramercury.com.au, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Quincy* (2018), Fi1m 63, Director, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/quincy.md)

## Complete filmography (5)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Whistle* (2025), Producer, Writer
- *Porcelain War* (2024), Executive Producer
- *My Sister Liv* (2022), Director
- *Quincy* (2018), Writer, Director — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/quincy.md)
- *Keep on Keepin' On* (2014), Executive Producer, Camera Operator, Music Supervisor, Director, Writer

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