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Kimberly Bautista
Los Angeles
Filmmaker
Tags: political/social issue documentaries  
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Title/Occupation:  Cinematographer  Director  Editor  Educator  Grant Writer  Producer  Writer 
Services Provided:  Equipment Rental  Narration/Translation  Transcription 
Gender: Female
Race: Mixed Race/Multi-ethnic
Languages Spoken: English and Spanish

Biography: 

Kimberly Bautista is a Los Angeles-based documentary filmmaker. She developed her dedication to documentary film as an undergraduate at Pitzer College, where she found video to be an educational tool to address issues of marginalization and serve as a platform for disenfranchised communities to establish their visibility. Kimberly's previous work, both in activism and video, has taken place in California, Ecuador, Colombia, and Guatemala around immigrant, worker's, and women's rights and is informed by her bicultural identity: Colombian and Irish. She has worked with incarcerated youth, developing curriculum for mural and art classes. She directed a three-year video workshop series and intercultural video pen-pal web exchange between young women in Quito, Ecuador and young Chicana women in Pomona, California.
Kimberly is currently directing a documentary called "Justice for my Sister" about Rebeca Tax's struggle to push her late sister Adela's murder trial through to sentencing of her killer Ricardo in the town of Escuintla in Guatemala, a place where killings of poor women typically go unpunished because of police and state inefficiency and witnesses' fear to testify. Rebeca and local activists label Adela's brutal murder as a case of femicide - gender-based violence. The film investigates the affects of the loss on the family, including Rebeca's politicization and move to action.
Kimberly is a recipient of the Princess Grace Award and the Hispanic Scholarship Fund/McNamara Family Creative Arts Grant. She graduated from the Social Documentation program at University of California, Santa Cruz in 2009. She is currently writing for LATV as an intern on the show "American Latino" and working as a 2nd AD on various shoots in the Los Angeles area.