{"id":325,"date":"2015-12-22T23:00:53","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T23:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastdayoffreedom.net\/?page_id=325"},"modified":"2017-11-27T01:53:47","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T01:53:47","slug":"credits","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lastdayoffreedom.net\/?page_id=325","title":{"rendered":"DIRECTORS & CREDITS"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2022 Directors Statement:<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Last Day of Freedom began when Nomi came home with stories from her (then) day job working as a media specialist for a non-profit doing mitigation work for trials on capital cases. She described families struggling to manage feelings of shock, shame and fear after their loved ones were accused of a capital crime. Innocent family members trying to see the truth and understand what went wrong. We asked those families to tell their stories, to describe perspectives that are rarely, if ever heard.<\/p>\n

We imagined back then almost four years ago that we would make a video installation exploring multiple families\u2019 experiences, for exhibition in museums and galleries as we had done before. Then we met Bill, hearing his story we suddenly knew we had to make a linear documentary, to tell his complex and painful story of war veterans, PTSD, racism, the failures in the American criminal injustice system, family bonds and the death penalty.\u00ad<\/p>\n

Initially we chose animation to retain the anonymity of several early storytellers, but as time went on and our film focused on Bill\u2019s story we realized the power of animation to open up new perspectives. We wanted to bring viewers intimately close to Bill, to witness each tear and wrinkle, to evoke metaphors of loss and isolation, and document both the outer\u00a0and\u00a0interior lives of his remarkable, and terrible story. There are 32 thousand drawings in Last Day of Freedom, this project took longer than any other project we have undertaken, involved more drawing, edits, rewrites and generous support than anything we have ever created. It is, to date the work we are proudest of. We are deeply grateful to Bill Babbitt for his openness, love and generosity in sharing his story. And also to the other families we interviewed, we are still in the process of creating a site for their stories.<\/p>\n

Dee Hibbert-Jones & Nomi Talisman
\nJuly 2015<\/p>\n\n

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\u2022 Bios Producers-Directors:
\n<\/strong>Dee Hibbert-Jones & Nomi Talisman are artist\/filmmakers who tell stories that bring to life larger issues of criminal justice and civic responsibility. Their work investigates the ways individuals manage power systems from the mundane to the extreme. They blend animation and documentary forms to challenge entrenched attitudes and move beyond dehumanizing statistics, engendering empathy and critical reflection. The filmmaker team created all key animations on the 32 thousand drawings in Last Day of Freedom. <\/em>Their collaborative film and media projects have been exhibited and screened in Europe, Israel, Japan and the U.S. in museums and international festivals such as Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Art in General (NYC), The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Tokyo Zokei Museum and international screenings and exhibitions in the US, Canada, Japan, Israel and Europe. Their recent grants and awards include Cal Humanities Documentary Grant, MacDowell Colony Fellowship, Center for Cultural Innovation Award, Pacific Pioneer Fund, Creative Work Fund Grant, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Award & Residency, NEA project award and BAVC Media Maker Fellowship. Their current film project Last Day of Freedom<\/em> won\u00a0the Jury Award for Best Short at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival this year – a\u00a0coveted award for the top short subject documentary. The film also won the Center for Documentary Studies Filmmaker Award at Full Frame, then received the Justice for All Award at the (In) Justice Film Festival and most recently the audience award at SF Doc Fest. Dee is an Associate Professor of Art & New Media at the University of California Santa Cruz. Nomi is a freelance editor and media specialist. Born in the UK and Israel respectively they now live in San Francisco.
\nLast Day of Freedom is their first documentary film.<\/p>\n

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Last Day of Freedom – Credits:<\/h4>\n

Produced and Directed by Dee Hibbert-Jones & Nomi Talisman<\/p>\n

Executive Producers
\nVivian Kleiman
\nPamela Harris
\nCorey Tong
\nAlex Austin<\/p>\n

Associate Producer
\nPenelope Wong<\/p>\n

Principal cinematography
\nNomi Talisman<\/p>\n

Editing, Key Animation and Design
\nDee Hibbert-Jones Nomi Talisman<\/p>\n

Consulting Editor
\nRobert Arnold<\/p>\n

Consulting Editor and Story Advisor
\nElizabeth Finlayson<\/p>\n

Production Consultant
\nMarcia Jarmel<\/p>\n

Animators
\nNicole Chu
\nTony Coleman
\nOlivia Healy-Mirkovich
\nTeresa Richardson<\/p>\n

Additional Animation
\n\u2022 Rafael Antonio Arana \u2022 Haley Jensen \u2022 Jennifer Panush \u2022 Dylan Parsi-Almeida \u2022 Anna Perez Lopez\u00a0\u2022 Mauricio Ramirez \u2022 Amanda Ross \u2022 Leah Stemman \u2022 Will Ward \u2022 Dmitri Zurita<\/p>\n

Original Music Composed and Preformed by
\nFred Frith<\/p>\n

Music Recording and Mix
\nMyles Boysen Guerilla Recording Oakland, CA<\/p>\n

Sound Design and Mix
\nJeremiah Moore<\/p>\n

Dialogue Editing
\nAndrew Roth<\/p>\n

Technical Consultant
\nAdam Gerardin<\/p>\n

Transcription
\nJulie Lagarde<\/p>\n

Legal representation
\nThe Austin Law Group<\/p>\n

Archival footage
\nThe Internet Archive
\nSacramento Union\u00a0Archives Special Collections, University of California Davis<\/p>\n

Additional Assistance
\nGreta Albog-Volper \u2022 Richard Desanto \u2022 Jacob Eades \u2022 Scott French
\n\u2022 Joshua Hurwirtz \u2022 Will Lee \u2022 Maya Manvi \u2022 Augustus Thompson<\/p>\n

Advisors
\nMona Cadena
\nTroy Duster
\nAmie Fishman
\nCraig Haney
\nDavid Onek
\nSusan Rutberg
\nAustin Sarat
\nNancy Stoller
\nMichael Thompson
\nEstrus Tucker
\nPatricia J. Williams
\nFrank Zimring<\/p>\n

Special Thanks To
\n\u2022 Jonathan Archer \u2022 Sara Bolder \u2022 Lisa Kleiner Chanoff \u2022 Laurie Coyle
\n\u2022 Janeil Engelstad\u2022 Jen Gilomen \u2022 Abby Ginzberg \u2022 Marcia Jarmel \u2022 Tim Kochis
\n\u2022 John Lightfoot\u2022 Perrin Meyer \u2022 Katya Min \u2022 Laura Nix \u2022 Michela Leslie-Rule
\n\u2022 Ken Schneider\u2022 Beate Ross Smith \u2022 Lara Spengler \u2022 Michael Trigilio
\n\u2022 Lewis Watts \u2022 Julie Wyman \u2022 Ana Zamora \u2022 Elizabeth Zitrin<\/p>\n

Special thanks for their support
\nInclusive PR \u2013 Mickey Cottrell, John McAvoy
\nLarsen Associates – Karen Larsen, Vince Johnson
\nAdam J. Segal The 2050 Group<\/p>\n

Special thanks for their support and generosity
\nKQED Truly CA team – Lisa Landi, Katie Koskenmaki and Aldo Mora-Blanco<\/span><\/p>\n

Our grateful thanks to Community Resource Initiative & Scarlet Nerad<\/p>\n

This project was made possible with support from Cal Humanities, in partnership with the NEH.
\nExperience more at www.calhum.org<\/a><\/p>\n

Supported by<\/p>\n

The Center for Cultural Innovation Investing in the Artist Grant<\/p>\n

The Creative Work Fund (a program of the Walter and Elise Haas Fund, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation,\u00a0& the James Irvine Foundation)<\/p>\n

The Embrey Family Foundation<\/p>\n

Left Tilt Fund<\/p>\n

Pacific Pioneer Fund<\/p>\n

San Francisco Arts Commission Artist Fund<\/p>\n

The University of California Institute for Research in the Arts<\/p>\n

The University of California Santa Cruz Art Research Institute<\/p>\n

UCSC Arts Dean\u2019s Research Fund & the Arts Dean\u2019s Excellence Fund<\/p>\n

UCSC Committee on Research Grant<\/p>\n

The Zitrin Family Foundation<\/p>\n

Web development PigIron thanks to Julian Fann<\/p>\n

With thanks to our Fiscal Sponsor Bay Area Video Coalition<\/p>\n

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Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman<\/p>\n

All images: \u00a9 Living Condition LLC 2015<\/p>\n

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