Born to Sally and Irving Chestman, Russian-Jewish immigrants, she grew up with three siblings on Manhattan's West Side during the 1920s and 1930s.
Faith Hubley, with Garry Trudeau and Bill Littlejohn, completed the special despite the doubts of NBC executives.
The Hubleys won Oscars for their shorts: Moonbird Archived 2013-10-19 at the Wayback Machine (1959), The Hole (1962) and A Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass Double Feature (1966); they also received Oscar nominations for Windy Day, Of Men and Demons, Voyage to Next and A Doonesbury Special.
Her films often feature abstract imagery and non-linear stories; many draw on themes of mythology and indigenous art.
[5] Faith Hubley received honors from the Cannes, Venice, London, and San Francisco film festivals.
[6] Faith Hubley died in 2001, aged 77, in New Haven, Connecticut, following her long battle with breast cancer, 26 years after her initial diagnosis.