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Hofstra University
School of Communication
Phone: (516) 463-5215
Fax: (516) 463-6866
sybil.delgaudio@hofstra.edu
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Professor
Ph.D., Columbia University
Sybil DelGaudio has taught both film studies and film production courses.
Her particular areas of interest are animation, documentary and feminist
theory and she has written articles on these and other subjects for journals
and anthologies, including Film History, Jump Cut, Columbia
Pictures: Portrait of A Studio, and The Dictionary of American
Biography, among others. Her book, Dressing the Part: Sternberg,
Dietrich and Costume, an investigation of costume signification in
the films of Josef von Sternberg, was published in 1993.
DelGaudio's own production work has combined an interest in animation scholarship
with a passion for documentary, resulting in two projects she directed for
public television, Animated Women (1995) and Independent Spirits:
Faith Hubley/John Hubley (2001). Both films were produced by her company,
Side-Kicks Productions in association with the Independent
Television Service with funds provided by the Corporation for Public
Broadcasting.
Animated Women, (www.itvs.org/external/AW/index.html)
 a
four-part series of half-hour programs on independent women animators,
was broadcast on PBS stations around the country and on the BBC in Britain.
It won recognition at many festivals, including Sinking Creek, Columbus
and the National Educational Film and Video Festival and was screened
at many museums, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the National
Gallery and the Walker Institute, among others. The series was also honored
with an Emmy and a CINE Golden Eagle.
Independent Spirits: Faith Hubley/John Hubley (www.pbs.org/itvs/independentspirits/),
is a one-hour documentary on the lives and work of independent animation
artists, Faith and John Hubley. Set within the context of six decades of
American cultural history, the film looks at the careers of Academy Award-winning
animators, Faith and John Hubley, at their struggle to remain independent
in a field that is largely commercial, and at their unique contributions
to the development of animation as an art form. Since June, 2002,Independent Spirits has been broadcast on over eighty PBS affiliates and was screened at the Robert Flaherty Seminar, the High Falls Film Festival, the USA Film Festival, the Provincetown Film Festival and the Mill Valley Festival. At the New Haven Film Festival, it won the Audience Award for Documentary and at the new York Expo, it won the Special Jury Prize. The film was also screened at festivals in Japan and Canada and was shown theatrically in New York at the Quad Cinema.
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