Biography
Robin Sky Bicknell is a multi-award-winning documentary director, producer, and writer. She is currently living in Toronto Canada. Her family is from Louisiana and Indiana in the United States. Bicknell specializes in high-end history, pop culture, deep access, and human stories. She is particularly accomplished at connecting with subjects in interview and excels at creating films and series that are equally authentic and cinematic.
Top broadcasters she has worked with include BBC, Channel 4, A&E, History, PBS, CBC, Discovery Channel, ARTÉ, ZDF, Science Channel, Superchannel , MTV, Channel 5, TLC, Discovery Health, Discovery ID, Canal-Vie, Discovery Europe, Slice Network, W Network, Smithsonian Channel, CTV and Global Television.
Bicknell just completed writing and directing a feature film for Discovery, ARTÉ and CBC's The Nature of Things entitled Walking with Ancients (Ice Age America) about incredible archaeological discoveries that push back the date of human arrival to the Americas by 15,000 years. Currently nominated at the 2024 Realscreen Awards for best non-fiction science and technology documentary.
A film she directed at the height of the pandemic entitled The Machine That Feels has recently been nominated for numerous awards including best science documentary at Realscreen 2023 . The film explores how AI technology is catching up to us in ways once thought to be uniquely human: empathy, emotional intelligence and creativity.
Bicknell has also recently directed Ice Bridge which was the Best History Documentary winner at the 2019 Canadian Screen Awards. Ice Bridge chronicles a top-secret archaeological dig that tells the story of ancient hunters crossing an ice-covered Atlantic Ocean 20,000 years ago. She has also recently completed co-directing D-Day in 14 stories - a feature film about 14 of the last surviving people who witnessed and fought on D-day. In 2018 she directed The Genetic Revolution, a pop- science film about the controversial gene editing technology CRISPR that garnered the prestigious nomination for Best Science and Technology Film at the 2019 Banff Television awards and three Canadian Screen Award nominations.
