Kimberlee Bassford

Kimberlee Bassford is an independent documentary filmmaker from Honolulu, Hawai‘i. In 2005, she founded Making Waves Films LLC, which is a documentary production company. She advocates for gender equity and diversity in films and television. Most of her work focuses on Asian American women and young girls, and her films actively seek to correct underrepresentation of those groups in the media.

She has 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.

She has been featured on the ''Insights on PBS Hawai‘i'' program, OC16's ''Hawai‘i's Reel Stories'' series, in the feature documentary ''Rise of the Wahine: Champions of Title IX'' and in the podcast ''American Beauty''. She has spoken at colleges and community events in Hawai‘i, including those for the American Association of University Women, Honolulu Civil Beat's Civil Café, Hawai‘i Women in Filmmaking, SAG-AFTRA Hawai‘i, and the dedication ceremony of the Patsy T. Mink sculpture. Provided by Wikipedia