Skip Battaglia's films and animations have been honored around the globe including Japan, England, Germany, Canada, Netherlands, Portugal, Mexico, and Cannes. In addition, he travels the world as a guest speaker and lecturer. In 1994-95 he received a Fulbright-Hays Teaching and Research Grant to teach film animation design and production at the Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico. He has a Master of Science degree in Television-Radio from SyracuseUniversity and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Philosophy from Boston College. Professor Battaglia has been teaching a variety of 16mm film production, animation, scriptwriting, and aesthetic courses to undergraduate and graduate students at RIT since 1987. http://www.rit.edu/~cfbpph/