Jacob Hickey’s name has been popping up on prestigious Australian documentaries since 2010 when he won the AFI Award for best documentary direction for Inside the Firestorm, a searing ABC feature-length doc about Black Saturday’s bushfires.
Since then, Hickey has written and produced many award-winning series, including Once Upon a Time in Cabramatta (2012) which attracted one of the biggest audiences ever for an SBS documentary and won Gold and Silver Medals at the New York Film Festival’s International Film and TV Awards; and First Contact which won the TV Week Logie for Most Outstanding Factual Program in 2015.