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 '' ( 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
88th Academy Awards
88th Academy Awards
Dee Hibbert-Jones