# Antony Hickling

Antony Hickling (born 8 November 1975) is an English independent film maker, actor, writer and voiceover actor.

## Biography

Antony Hickling was born in South Africa, Johannesburg the son of an Indian father and English mother. At a young age he returned to the United Kingdom and the family settled in Greater Manchester where he trained as an actor at Manchester University (The Arden School of Theatre).
After working in the theatre in London for several years, he moved to Paris to study at the Paris 8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis. After obtaining his Master of Arts, he left his doctorate in Performing arts, unfinished to pursue a career in cinema.
In 2012, he trained as a director at the European Center for Film Production (CEFPF) in Paris under the direction of the Belgian director Harry Cleven. He went on to direct films related to his research on Queer and his films have been screened at LGBTQ film festivals worldwide.
He continues to work as an actor and has lent his voice to many characters in animation for cinema, documentaries, video games and for major advertising brands around the world. He has worked as professor of stage & screen at the Cours Florent school in Paris since 2022.
He became a French citizen in 2018.

## Films

The early films of Hickling are characterized by his underground film style and are rich in religious symbolism, metaphors and explicit sexual depictions. The Trilogy of films : Little Gay Boy, Where Horses Go To Die and Frig marks the end of what Hickling has called the first chapter. Both Frig and Little Gay Boy were forbidden in France for under - 18s by the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée, usually reserved for movies containing simulated sex or extreme violence.
In 2017, he founded the production company H&A Films, and with Down in Paris, he moves towards a more traditional narrative style. The film illustrates the beginning of a new phase in the director's work. His next film, An Afternoon with Patrick Sarfati, is an intimate documentary portrait of the French photographer.

## Filmography
### Director

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2010 | Birth 1, 2 & 3 | Director & Writer | Three experimental shorts films - 25min |
| 2012 | Q.J | Director & Writer | Short film - 5min |
| 2013 | Little Gay Boy | Director & Writer | Experimental feature film - 72min |
| 2014 | One Deep Breath | Director & Writer | Experimental feature film - 56min |
| 2014 | PD | Director & Writer | Experimental short film - 8min |
| 2016 | Where Horses Go To Die | Director & Writer | Feature film - 67min |
| 2017 | Loki Starfish: Eyes on the Highway | Director | Music video |
| 2018 | Frig | Director & Writer | Experimental feature film - 60min |
| 2019 | Queer I | Director & Writer | Experimental short film - 7min |
| 2021 | Down in Paris | Director & Writer | Feature film - 102 min |
| 2023 | An afternoon with Patrick Sarfati | Director & Writer | Documentary film - 75 min |
| 2024 | Ella | Director, Writer Benedict Wells | Short film - 5O min |

### Actor

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1999 | Love in the 21st Century with Colin Farrell | Kevin (Episode 6) | TV series |
| 2000 | Where the Heart Is | Indian Waiter | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2006 | The Romantics | The witness | TV series |
| 2006 | Boom Boom Clap | Stuart | Short film |
| 2007 | Give & Take | Danny | Short film |
| 2008 | 8th Wonderland | Dany | Film |
| 2010 | Arthur 3: The War of the Two Worlds | Douglas | Film |
| 2010 | All Hallows'een | Hugh Travers | Short film |
| 2012 | Worse | The man | Short film |
| 2014 | Love in Paris (Saison 6 des Mystères de l'amour) | Neurologue | French TV series |
| 2014 | The sky above Bastille (Le ciel au-dessus de Bastille) | Derek Anger | Experimental Film |
| 2016 | Eric et Quentin | The American | French TV Canal+ |
| 2021 | The Butcher's Daughter | Sid Kharish | Film |
| 2021 | The Biggest Fan | Tony Williams | Film |
| 2021 | Down in Paris | Richard Barlow | Film |
| 2021 | Black Box | Collaborater | Film |
| 2022 | Lupin (French TV series) | Max Moller | Serie Netflix |
| 2023 | Hard Skills | Greg | Film |

## Theatre

| Year | Title | Role | Theatre | Director |
| 1995 | Miss Julie with Amanda Donohoe | Peasant | Royal Exchange Manchester | Braham Murray |
| 1999 | Skin | Chris | Manchester | Helen Parry |
| 1999 | The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me | Monkey | Polka Theatre | Roman Stefanski |
| 2000 | A different place | Able | English Touring Theatre | Erica Whyman |
| 2000 | The Winter's Tale | Florizel | Southwark Playhouse | Erica Whyman |
| 2001 | Unsuitable girls | Ashok | Pilot Theatre | Kully Thiarai |
| 2001 | Death of a Salesman with Joseph Marcell | Bernard | Leicester Haymarket Theatre | Kully Thiarai |
| 2002 | Dolly West's Kitchen | Jamie O'Brien | Leicester Haymarket Theatre | Paul Kerryson |
| 2003 | A man astray | Douglas | Soho Theatre | Erica Whyman |
| 2004 | La question aux pieds nus | Lui | Théâtre Déjazet | Jacques Clancy |
| 2009 | The Dumb Waiter | Ben | Monfort-Théâtre | Lucille O'Flanagan |
| 2009 | Romeo and Juliet | Romeo | Monfort-Théâtre | Daniel Soulier |

## Voice Over and Dubbing
### Films

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2011 | The Lady | BBC Journalist | Film |
| 2012 | My Way | Post production Voice Over | Film |
| 2014 | Rapace | Journalist | French TV Film |
| 2014 | Misunderstood | Ricky | Film |
| 2015 | The Parisian Bitch, Princess of Hearts | William | Film |
| 2018 | Kursk | Post production voices | Film |
| 2018 | Frig | Narrator | Film |

### Animation Movies

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2015 | Mouk | Voiced several characters | Animation TV Series |
| 2015 | Long Way North | Larson | Film |
| 2016 | Louise by the Shore | Tom the parachutist | Film |
| 2016 | Ballerina | Victor - reference voice | Film |
| 2017-2021 | Cartoonito (French TV channel) | Presenter | TV Series |

### Documentary

| Year | Title | Production | Notes |
| 2015 | Pansy - Les Pensées de Paul | Canal+ France, Bangumi Productions | TV |
| 2017 | The War of the Aces (La Guerre des As) | Arte France, Indigenes Productions | TV Series |
| 2018 | Snake tracker (Traqueur de serpents) | Planète+ | TV Animal Documentary |
| 2021 | The Miracles of Jesus (Les Miracles de Jésus) | Pernel Media | TV |
| 2022 | Munich 72, des jeux et du sang - 2 | Pernel Media, Arte | TV |
| 2022 | Snapshot of History (Instantané d'Histoire) | ECPAD, ZED, Arte | TV |
| 2022 | China perseverance (Chine perseverance) | Arte | TV |
| 2022 | The Animal Factory (L'usine des Animaux) | Arte | TV |
| 2023 | Butterflies, superheroes of nature (Les Papillons, ces super-héros de la nature Version) | Pernel Media, Arte | TV |
| 2023 | The Mayas: from the mystery of their origins to the fall (Les Mayas : du mystère des origines à la chute) | Pernel Media, Arte | TV |
| 2024 | The Joan of Arc case (L'affaire Jeanne d'Arc) | Program33 | TV |
| 2024 | Genius of builders (Génie des bâtisseurs) | Pernel Media, Planète+ | TV |
| 2025 | Incas | Pernel Media, CNC | TV |
| 2025 | Erik Satie | Allumage, Arte | TV |
| 2025 | Jaguars (Au nom des Jaguars) | Pernel Media, France Télévisions | TV |
| 2025 | The War of the Worlds by Cyril Leuthy (La guerre des mondes) | 10.7 Productions, Arte | TV |
| 2025 | Pharaohs at War (Pharaons en guerre) by Anne Viry-Babel | Pernel Media, Histoire TV | TV |

### Video Games

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2010 | Heavy Rain | Gordi Kramer | action-adventure video game |
| 2012 | Les Aventures de Tintin | Voiced several characters | action-adventure video game |

## Film Festival Focus, Jury and Conference

* Jury, Chéries-Chéris Paris, France 2012
* Jury, Serile Filmului Gay International Film Festival 2012, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
* Member of the board of directors and programmer for the festival Chéries-Chéris, Paris, France, from 2013 to 2016.
* Jury, TGLFF, Torino Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Italy 2015
* Jury & Focus, Timi Shorts- Timișoara, Romania 2015
* Round table discussion with Randal Kleiser, about the current state of contemporary LGBTQI cinéma for the Champs-Élysées Film Festival, Paris Paris 2017
* Focus on his work at BIG!ff – Bari International Gender film festival Italy 2018, sponsored by Apulia Film Commission Italy.
* Focus on his work at Rio Festival de Gênero & Sexualidade no Cinema 2018
* Focus on his work at the festival cultural de diversidad sexual y género, Cuernavaca, Mexico 2018.
* Focus on his work at Chéries-Chéris MK2, Paris, France 2018
* Hybrida [GeSex#1] International colloquium on gender and sexuality perspectives in contemporary Francophone artistic-literary creation University of Valencia 2018
* Focus on his work at Queer Zagreb, Perforacije Festival Zagreb, Croatia 2019
* Jury, Sadique-master film festival, Paris 2019
* Focus on his work at The IV DIGO – Goias Sexual diversity and gender international Film Festival, Brazil 2019.
* Focus on his work for Semana Rainbow, A Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), Brasil 2019
* Carte Blanche for the 25th edition of L'Etrange Film Festival, Forum des Images, Paris, France 2019
* Retrospective & Masterclass at The International Queer Film Festival Merlinka or Merlinka festival, Belgrade, Serbia 2019
* Jury & Masterclass, Zinegoak, Bilbao International Film Festival (Basque Country) Spain, 2020
* Retrospective TLVFest, Tel Aviv's International LGBT Film Festival, Israel, Sept 2020.
* Jury, The International Queer Film Festival Merlinka or Merlinka festival, Belgrade, Serbia 2021
* Jury, image+nation culture queer Image+Nation, 35th Edition, Montreal, Canada, Nov 2022

## Awards

* Down in Paris wins: Best Director, Queer international Film Festival, Playa del Carmen, Mexico, Nov 2022
* Down in Paris wins: Best Director for a Feature Film (International), Yellowstone International Film Festival, New Delhi, India, October 2022
* Antony Hickling for Down in Paris wins The Kim Renders Memorial Award for Outstanding Performance Reelout Queer Film Festival, Canada, Feb 2022
* Down in Paris wins season award nomination for Best Feature Live Action Narrative | Manchester Lift-Off, UK, 2022
* Down in Paris obtained the Arthouse Recommendation from the French Association of Arthouse Cinemas on 24 February 2022.
* Down in Paris wins Best Narrative Feature for the 39th Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival OCT 2021
* The Trilogy (Little Gay Boy, Where Horses Go To Die & Frig) receives the Christian Petermann award for an innovative work. Controversial scenarios expressed through music, dance and daring at the IV DIGO – Goias Sexual diversity and gender international Film Festival, Brazil, 2019
* One Deep Breath – Best experimental feature at Zinegoak film festival in Bilboa, Spain, 2015
* Special Mention for his work as a director at Rio FICG, Brazil, 2015
* Holy Thursday (The Last supper) – Special mention from the Jury. Chéries-Chéris, France, 2013