Dee Hibbert-Jones

Dee Hibbert-Jones is a film director, producer and animator.

Dee Hibbert-Jones
Born
United Kingdom
Occupation(s)Film director, producer and animator
Years active2011–present
Known forLast Day of Freedom

She is best known for co-producing and co-directing the short-documentary Last Day of Freedom (32 mins) for which she received an Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) nomination at the 88th Academy Awards, with Nomi Talisman, 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, 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 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 and a BA from London University.

Born in the UK she lives in San Francisco CA.

Filmography

Awards and nominations

References
  1. "Oscars 2016 Nominations: Complete List of Nominees". Eonline. January 14, 2016. Retrieved January 14, 2016.
  2. "Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman of "Last Day of Freedom" at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival". Jenelle Riley. Indiezone. October 14, 2015. Retrieved October 31, 2015.
  3. "The Full Frame Doc day 3 and 4". Film Babble. April 13, 2015. Retrieved October 31, 2015.
  4. "The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival has announced the 2015 festival award recipients. Full Frame is a qualifying event for consideration for nominations for both the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject and The Producers Guild of America Awards". EDN. March 13, 2015. Retrieved October 31, 2015.
  5. "Hamptons International Film Festival Announces 2015 Award Winners". Jenelle Riley. Variety. October 14, 2015. Retrieved October 31, 2015.
  6. "Documentary Awards: 'The Look Of Silence' 'Last Day Of Freedom', 'Listen To Me Marlon' Win IDA Nods". Deadline.com. 6 December 2015. Retrieved 2015-12-08.
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