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Alan Hicks is a Grammy Award-Winning filmmaker based in 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" where he won the Audience Award and Best New Director honors at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival. "Keep On Keepin' On" also won awards from the IDFA, AFI, Cinema Eye, Seattle Film Festival, Palm Springs, Hamptons Summer Docs, Aspen Film Festival and more. "Keep On Keepin' On" was also shortlisted for the Academy Awards Best Documentary Feature in 2015.
Hicks most recently directed the documentary feature film "Quincy", following music legend and icon Quincy Jones over four years. "Quincy" premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2018, before a worldwide premiere on Netflix reaching audiences in 150 countries. "Quincy" received the Critic's Choice Honor for Best Music Documentary, the African American Film Critics Award for Best Documentary and Top Ten Films of 2018. "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.- Actor
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Richard Alan Hicks was born in Albuquerque, NM. He is an actor and singer known for Vanguard Dispatch (2005) and First Lady (2018). He has also been an ASL Interpreter. Richard remembers being immensely moved seeing "Against a Crooked Sky" and his mom taking him out of school early in order to see "Star Wars". Movies inspired hope and progress in his young mind, such as Time Travelling in a DeLorean. Richard earned a Masters Degree in Public Policy and has worked in Washington DC on Capitol Hill. He has traveled on humanitarian missions in Africa and Europe; and has taught English in South Korea.
Ric enjoys the challenge of getting into new characters and working with new directors. His mottos are: "live for the moment" and "win an Oscar".- Set Decorator
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- Alan Hicks is known for Leaf Litter.
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Alan Hicks is known for Ravage (2009).- Alan Hicks is known for Underbelly (2008).