Dee Hibbert-Jones is a film director, producer and animator. She is best known for co-producing and co-directing the short-documentary ''

Last Day of Freedom ''Last Day of Freedom'' is a 2015 American black and white and color animated short documentary film about racism, the US Criminal Justice System, and mental health issues. The documentary was well received by critics and earned numerous awa ...

'' (32 mins) for which she received an Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) nomination at the 88th Academy Awards, with

Nomi Talisman Nomi Talisman (; born 1968) is an Israeli-born, American film director, producer, cinematographer and animator. She is best known for co-producing and co-directing short-documentary ''Last Day of Freedom'' for which she received Academy Award ...

, an Emmy Award (Northern CA) and the IDA Best Short Documentary Award. Hibbert-Jones is an Associate Professor of Art and Digital Art New Media at the

University of California, Santa Cruz The University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz or UCSC) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Cruz, California, United States. It is one of the ten campuses in the University of C ...

, where she is founder and Co-Director of SPARC at UCSC a Social Practice Arts Research Center. Hibbert-Jones and Talisman were awarded a

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are Grant (money), grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon Guggenheim, Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim. These awards are bestowed upon indiv ...

They won an Emmy Award for Last Day of Freedom, at the 45th Annual Northern California Emmy® Awards (News and Program Speciality - Documentary Topical), the Filmmaker Award from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke, and a Gideon Award for support to Indigent Communities. Currently, they are nominated for the 2016 Congressional Black Caucus Veterans Braintrust Award. Among Dee Hibbert-Jones' festival awards are: Best Short Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Best Short Documentary Hamptons International Film Festival, Golden Strands Award, Outstanding Documentary Short, Tall Grass KS, Best Experimental Short, Atlanta Docufest, Impact Award (In) Justice for All, and the 2015 Platinum Award Winner Spotlight Documentary Series. Hibbert-Jones is a MacDowell Colony Fellow, a Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Fellow and Headlands Center For the Arts Alumni. She holds an MFA from Mills College Oakland, MA York University, PGCE from

Durham University Durham University (legally the University of Durham) is a collegiate university, collegiate public university, public research university in Durham, England, founded by an Act of Parliament (UK), Act of Parliament in 1832 and incorporated by r ...

and a BA from London University. Born in the UK she lives in San Francisco CA.

Filmography

* ''

'' (2015) * I-140 (2012) * Are We There Yet? (2011)

Awards and nominations

* Hibbert- Jones shared following awards and nominations with Talisman: * 201
Fellow
of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation * 2016 California Public Defenders Association
Gideon Award
(film), for

(with

and Bill Babbitt) * 2015:

Academy Awards The Academy Awards, commonly known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit in film. They are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in the United States in recognition of excellence in ...

** Best Documentary - Short Subject * 2015: Full Frame Documentary Film Festival ** Best Short Film - Jury Award ** Duke University, The Center for Documentary Studies Filmmaker Award * 2015: Hamptons International Film Festival ** Golden Starfish Award - Best Documentary Short Film sponsored by ID Films. * 2015:

International Documentary Association International Documentary Association (IDA), founded in 1982, is a non-profit 501(c)(3) that promotes nonfiction filmmakers, and is dedicated to increasing public awareness for the documentary genre. Their major program areas are: Advocacy, Film ...

** Best Short Documentary Award.

References

External links

*
Talisman and Jones
official website
Dee Hibbert-Jones
at UC Santa Cruz * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hibbert-Jones, Dee Film directors from California Film producers from California American animated film directors Women animated film directors American animated film producers American women animators American women film directors American women film producers Artists from California Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Alumni of Durham University 21st-century American women