Kimberlee Bassford

Honolulu, Hawaii, United States

<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: 16px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="1"><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10pt; padding-left: 40px; width: 450px; line-height: 18pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666"><br></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10pt; padding-left: 40px; width: 450px; line-height: 18pt; "><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">I'm an independent documentary filmmaker from Hawaii. &nbsp;I produced, directed, wrote and co-edited&nbsp;</span><a title="Ahead of the Majority" href="http://www.aheadofthemajority.com/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000099">PATSY MINK: AHEAD OF THE MAJORITY</font></a><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">&nbsp;(2008), a one-hour documentary about the late U.S. Representative Patsy Mink, the first woman of color in Congress and co-author of Title IX, the landmark legislation that mandated gender equity in education.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10pt; padding-left: 40px; width: 450px; line-height: 18pt; "><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">The film premiered at the Hawai‘i International Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award for Favorite Documentary. It also won the Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature at the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival; Grand Jury Prize for Best Feature at the DisOrient Asian American Film Festival; Spirit of Humanity Award at the San Joaquin International Film Festival; among other honors. &nbsp;It aired nationally on</span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000099">&nbsp;</font><a title="PBS" href="http://www.pbs.org/patsymink/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000099">PBS</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666">&nbsp;</font><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">in 2009 and has educational distribution through&nbsp;</span><a title="Women Make Movies" href="http://www.wmm.com/filmCatalog/pages/c758.shtml" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000099">Women Make Movies</font></a><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10pt; padding-left: 40px; width: 450px; line-height: 18pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666">I recently produced the short documentary LOTUS ROOT: A GREAT GRANDDAUGHTER’S JOURNEY (2010), about my great grandfather Chun Quon Yee Hop, the founding member of my family in Hawai‘i and a successful businessman and philanthropist. I was also a producer on&nbsp;</font><a title="Unnatural Causes" href="http://www.unnaturalcauses.org/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000099">UNNATURAL CAUSES: &nbsp;IS INEQUALITY MAKING US SICK?</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666">&nbsp;(2008), a four-hour national PBS documentary series and public engagement campaign that investigates America’s socioeconomic and racial disparities in health, as well as on the three-hour PBS documentary series</font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000099">&nbsp;<font class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000099"><a title="The Meaning of Food" href="http://www.pbs.org/opb/meaningoffood/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000099">THE MEANING OF FOOD</font></a>&nbsp;</font>(</font></font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666">2005), about the social significance of food.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10pt; padding-left: 40px; width: 450px; line-height: 18pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666">I had my directorial debut with</font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000099">&nbsp;</font><em style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; "><a title="Cheerleader" href="http://www.cheerleaderfilm.com/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; "><span style="font-style: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000099">CHEERLEADER</font></span></a><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">&nbsp;</span></em><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">(2003), a short documentary that follows a squad of young, bright-eyed California cheerleaders on its quest for the national cheerleading championships. The film won the&nbsp;</span><a title="Student Academy Awards" href="http://old.oscars.org/saa/2004/index.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000099">Student Academy Award</font></a><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">&nbsp;in Documentary and CINE Golden Eagle and aired nationally on&nbsp;</span><a title="HBO Family" href="http://www.hbofamily.com/programs/cheerleader.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000099">HBO Family</font></a><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">. It also screened in film festivals in the U.S., Canada, Europe and New Zealand, including the Cannes Film Festival as part of the Kodak Emerging Filmmaker Showcase. The film has educational distribution through</span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000099">&nbsp;<a title="Documentary Educational Resources" href="http://www.der.org/films/cheerleader.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000099">Documentary Educational Resources</font></a></font><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10pt; padding-left: 40px; width: 450px; line-height: 18pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666">I graduated from Punahou School and hold a BA in psychology from Harvard University and a Masters in Journalism from the University of California Berkeley. &nbsp;I'm the owner of </font><a href="http://makingwavesfilms.com" title="Making Waves Films LLC" target="_blank"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000099">Making Waves Films LLC</font> </a><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666">and&nbsp;an adjunct lecturer at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa’s&nbsp;</font><a href="http://www.hawaii.edu/acm/faculty/bassford.shtml" target="_blank" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000099">Academy for Creative Media</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666">, and also teach documentary filmmaking to the community through the university's </font><a href="http://www.outreach.hawaii.edu/pnm/default.asp" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000099">Pacific New Media</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666">&nbsp;program.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10pt; padding-left: 40px; width: 450px; line-height: 18pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666"><br></font></p></font></span>

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