Born in New York City, Faith worked in the theater before moving to Hollywood to become a film editor and script supervisor. Back in New York, she was script supervisor on Sidney Lumet's Twelve Angry Men and James Wong Howe's Harlem Globetrotter film Go Man Go, which she also edited.

In 1955, she and her late husband, John, established their independent animation studio. Their remarkable partnership produced films such as Moonbird, Windy Day and Everybody Rides The Carousel, which broke new ground in the world of animation. The Hubleys employed a free-form visual style. Their unique sound tracks featured improvised dialogue by their children, and jazz scores by Benny Carter, Dizzy Gillespie and Quincy Jones. Their twenty-one films received scores of prizes, including three Academy Awards from a total of seven nominations.

Faith's solo work has been marked by world mythology and the art of indigenous peoples. She has been honored in Cannes, Venice, and London film festivals and has received the "Golden Gate Persistence of Vision Award."

In 1985, the Academy of Motion Picture Art and Sciences presented "A Salute to the Hubley Studio," an event consisting of screenings, a symposium and a gallery exhibit. The Public Theater in New York hosted a weeklong "Hubley Festival" in 1993. Later that year, the Venice International Film Festival sponsored "An Homage to John and Faith Hubley." In 1995 she was honored with a retrospective program at Washington D.C.'s National Gallery.

THE ART OF THE HUBLEYS, a complete retrospective of Hubley films and THE HUBLEY STUDIO: A HOME FOR ANIMATION, an exhibition of approximately 150 examples of concept art, storyboards and background painting, took place at The Museum of Modern Art in New York in the winter of 1997-1998. BEYOND THE FRAME: ANIMATION ART AND PAINTINGS BY FAITH HUBLEY, JOHN HUBLEY AND EMILY HUBLEY took place at the Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra Museum in June and July of 1999.

In March 2000, The Sundance channel aired "Spotlight on the Hubleys," a showcase of more than two-dozen films by Faith, John and Emily Hubley. In 2001, Our Spirited Earth is being featured. Faith's work-in- progress, Northern Ice, Golden Sun, is scheduled for completion this year.

This page contains information about the animation program from the 2001 festival.
For information on this year's festival, follow the links below.