Kimberlee Bassford
Producer/Director/Writer/Editor

Kimberlee Bassford received her Masters in Journalism from the University of California Berkeley, where she produced Cheerleader as her thesis film. The film went on to win the 2004 Student Academy Award in Documentary and CINE Golden Eagle and aired on HBO Family.

Bassford has worked on social issue and cultural documentaries in Seattle, San Francisco and Hawai'i, including the three-hour PBS documentary series The Meaning of Food (2005), which examines the social significance of food in the United States, and the four-hour PBS documentary series Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? (2008), which investigates the roots of America's socioeconomic and racial disparities in health.

She recently produced Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority (2008), a one-hour documentary that explores the life and times of the late U.S. Representative Patsy Takemoto Mink, the first woman of color in Congress and co-author of Title IX, the landmark legislation that mandated gender equity in education. The film aired nationally on PBS in May 2009 and won the Audience Award at the Hawaii International Film Festival and San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival and the Spirit of Humanity Award at the San Joaquin International Film Festival, among other honors. It has educational distribution through Women Make Movies.