David Hickman has been writing, producing and directing single documentaries and series for broadcast television in the United Kingdom and internationally for the last twenty years.
More recently he directed and series produced the Emmy Award-winning The Elegant Universe, adapted from Brian Greene's bestselling book for Nova/WGBH in the US and Channel.
As well as Stephen Hawking and Brian Greene, Hickman has worked with onscreen talents including the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist Thomas Friedman (a feature-length documentary entitled Green: The New Red White And Blue), the IVF pioneer Robert Winston (Superhuman, BBC1 & Discovery), and the American actor and producer Danny Glover (Great Railway Journeys, BBC2 & PBS).
Hickman has also been privileged to work with some of the finest production and post-production talent around: the Academy Award-winning director Errol Morris (who won an Academy Award for The Fog of War), cinematographers John Bailey, ASC (whose critically acclaimed cinematography on films like Mishima and American Gigolo has been deeply influential), Lance Gewer (who photographed the Academy Award-winning Tsotsi) Robefrt Chappell (The Thin Blue Line; The Fog of War) and Stefan Czapsky (best known for his photographing Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands and Ed Wood), editors Brad Fuller (Gary Oldman’s Nil by Mouth and Tom Swartwout (who edited the legendary director Sydney Lumet’s last film, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead), composers Philip Glass (Mishima; The Hours) and Asche and Spencer (Monster’s Ball) re-recording mixer and sound designer Randy Thom (the Harry Potter films), and sound recordist Peter Handford (a regular on Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘British’ movies, as well as The Go-Between, Out of Africa, Frenzy and Heaven's Gate).
He teaches on the BSc in film and television production, the BA in writing, directing and performance, and presently contributes to undergraduate and postgraduate degree programs in the Center for Applied Human Rights at York.