Kimberly Bautista sees films as a pathway towards liberation, intergenerational healing, harmony with the land, and taxing the rich. Her feature-length documentary JUSTICE FOR MY SISTER about one Guatemalan woman’s determination to hold her sister’s killer accountable won Best Documentary at eight international film festivals and was broadcast on PBS Stations and TeleSUR. She founded a nonprofit to train women of color and nonbinary youth in filmmaking with a gender equality and racial justice lens.
Kimberly’s comedic pilot THE SWEETSPOT–about millennials of color who navigate their quarter-life crisis–premiered at the 2017 Outfest Fusion Festival. She’s directed and produced music videos for and documentaries about Latin American feminist hip hop artists.
Kimberly’s witchy TV series pilot about women’s power to heal, ELEMENTAL POWERS, was featured at Second City’s Diversity in Comedy Festival. Kimberly is developing her 90s cumbia/punk/ska coming-of-age feature film in-development, 19.99 PLUS TAX, about a Colombian-American teenage girl who’s set on performing in Battle of the Bands, despite her parents’ disapproval, and who must make peace with God when her bandmate unexpectedly passes away. Kimberly is in pre-production with her short surreal film about a fraught mother-daughter trip that results in inner-child healing, HEART SWELL.
Kimberly will be presenting at the Trauma-Informed Storytelling as a Portal to Heal workshop.
