Kimberlee Bassford
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Kimberlee Bassford is an independent documentary filmmaker from Honolulu, Hawai'i. She is an advocate for depicting more stories about girls and women in films and television. In 2005, she founded Making Waves Films LLC, which is a documentary production company.[1]
Her films have won the Student Academy Award in Documentary and a CINE Golden Eagle Award. Her films have been screened at events such as the Cannes Film Festival, the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, and Gate City Women's Film Festival.
Education
Bassford has a BA in psychology from Harvard University and a Masters of Journalism from the University of California Berkeley.[2]
Career
Bassford has produced and directed the documentaries Winning Girl (2014, World Channel), Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority (2008, PBS) and Cheerleader (2003, HBO Family). She was a producer on episode 6, "Collateral Damage," in the PBS documentary series Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? (2008). She was also producer for The Meaning of Food (2005), a three-part documentary series looking at the "social and cultural significance of food among Samoans in Tacoma, Washington; Native Hawaiians in Hawai'i; and among Native American Makah in Neah Bay, Washington."[3]
Bassford is currently an instructor of journalism at Windward Community College, where she is also advisor for the school's student newspaper.
Cheerleader (2003)
Cheerleader is a short documentary about a squad of California cheerleaders attempting to compete in the national cheerleading championships. The film won the Student Academy Award in Documentary and was screened at the Cannes Film Festival as part of the Kodak Emerging Filmmaker Showcase.[4]
Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority (2008)
In 2008, she produced, directed, wrote and co-edited Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority (2008), which won the Audience Award for Favorite Documentary at the Hawai'i International Film Festival. It also won a CINE Golden Eagle and received awards at the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, DisOrient Asian American Film Festival, San Joaquin International Film Festival, Honolulu International Film Festival, San Francisco Women's Film Festival and Gate City Women's Film Festival.
Winning Girl (2014)
Winning Girl tells the story of a female teenage wrestling and judo phenom from Hawai‘i.
She established Making Waves Films LLC, a documentary production company, in 2005.
Awards
She has garnered numerous honors for her work, including film festival audience awards and grand jury prizes, a duPont-Columbia Award, Student Academy Award, CINE Golden Eagles, and has been featured on panels and juries for ITVS, Center for Asian American Media, Pacific Islanders in Communications, Hawai'i International Film Festival and the Ohina Short Film Showcase.
Personal life
Bassford has spoken about the challenges of being a working mother.
https://www.momsrising.org/blog/family-first-3-moms-document-the-paid-family-leave-movement
References
- ^ "About | Making Waves Films LLC | United States". Making Waves Films. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
- ^ "Kimberlee Bassford". Women Make Movies. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "The Meaning of Food". www.hawaii.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
- ^ Sarapolay, Added by; Events, View. "Producing the Documentary with Kimberlee Bassford". www.techhui.com. Retrieved 2020-03-03.