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October 2009 Kimberlee Bassford attends screenings of Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority at the Loft Cinema in Tucson, AZ (sponsored by Arizona List); University of California Santa Barbara Multicultural Center; La Femme Film Festival in Los Angeles, CA; and the San Diego Asian Film Festival. |
August-September 2009 Kimberlee Bassford co-teaches a workshop about digital storytelling in the classroom at the Punahou Technology Lab School with fellow Hawai‘i filmmakers Sharon Webb, Henry Mochida and Mark Wolf. She also co-teaches a three-day filmmaking workshop at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa Outreach College's Pacific New Media program. |
| May 2009 Patsy
Mink: Ahead of the Majority airs nationwide on PBS
as part of Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month. |
| March-June 2009 Kimberlee Bassford joins the Entrepreneur-In-Residence (EIR) team at Punahou School's Luke Center for Public Service. As an EIR, she will volunteer her time to work with Punahou students, teachers and administrators to explore entrepreneurial thinking linked to social issues and to implement projects that serve the greater community. Patsy
Mink: Ahead of the Majority continues to screen in film festivals
and at community venues. Highlights include: |
January 2009 Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick wins an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award for excellence in broadcast journalism. The duPont-Columbia Award is considered the most prestigious in broadcast journalism, the equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize. The series aired nationwide on PBS in April 2008. |
October 2008 Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority is completed. The film has its world premiere at the Louis Vuitton Hawai‘i International Film Festival, where it wins the Audience Award for Favorite Documentary. The film also airs throughout the state of Hawai‘i on PBS Hawaii. |
September 2007 Editing begins on Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority. |
August 2007 A six-minute sample of Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority is screened at a University of Hawai‘i women's athletics fundraising dinner in Honolulu. The project is also awarded funding from the Independent Television Service (ITVS) through its LINCS initiative. |
April 2007 Shooting continues on Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority. Interviews are filmed in Washington, D.C. with Rep. Mink's family, friends, former staff and Congressional colleagues. Interviewees include House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Senator Daniel Inouye (D-HI), former Senator Birch Bayh (D-IN), Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-CA), Rep. John Mica (R-FL) and former Reps. Norm Mineta (D-CA), Pat Schroeder (D-CO) and Andy Jacobs (D-IN). |
February 2007 Shooting begins on Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority. Interviews are filmed in Honolulu and on Maui with Rep. Mink's family, high school classmates, former staff and others. Interviewees include former Maui Mayor Elmer Cravalho, retired Hawai‘i judge Walter Heen, retired Hawai'i judge Marie Milks and Honolulu Advertiser political reporter Jerry Burris. |
| November 2006 Pre-production begins on Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority. |
| August 2006 Kimberlee Bassford wraps work on Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?. Production took place in Hawai'i, Arkansas and the Republic of the Marshall Islands. The series is slated to air on PBS in 2008. |
April/May 2006 Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority receives grant awards from the A&B Foundation and the Hawai‘i State Legislature, bringing the total raised to about half the project budget. |
| March 2006 Kimberlee Bassford is invited to speak at the Women's History Month Film Festival in Lihue, Kaua'i, sponsored by the Kaua‘i County Committee on the Status of Women. Cheerleader screens at the University of Hawai‘i as part of the Outreach College's Pacific New Media program. |
February 2006 Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority is awarded a grant from the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation. It also receives a donation from tennis champion and women's rights activist Billie Jean King. |
| January 2006 Kimberlee Bassford begins work as a producer on the Pacific Islander story for Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?, a four-hour national PBS documentary series and public engagement campaign, produced by California Newsreel in association with Vital Pictures, that investigates our disturbing socioeconomic and racial disparities in health. The Women's Legislative Caucus of the Hawai‘i State Legislature votes to include Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority as part of its 2006 Legislative Package, giving the project its official endorsement. The Caucus also screens Cheerleader at its meeting. |
| December 2005 The Hawai‘i Council for the Humanities awards Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority a production grant. While more funds are needed in order to begin production, this is an exciting first "drop in the bucket." |
| September 2005 Making Waves Films secures fiscal sponsorship for Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority from Hawai‘i Community Television (HCTV), a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization based in Honolulu. |
| June 2005 Kimberlee Bassford attends the 2005 CPB/PBS Producers Academy at WGBH Boston. She is one of 20 independent and PBS producers invited to participate in the week-long event. |
| May 2005 Cheerleader screens at the Cannes Film Festival in France as part of the Kodak Emerging Filmmaker Showcase. The film earned a place in the showcase as the winner of the 2004 Student Academy Award in documentary. |
| April 2005 The three-hour documentary series The Meaning of Food premieres nationally on PBS. Kimberlee Bassford was one of three producers on the series and produced stories about Makah Indian whaling, the Mexican-American tradition of the tamalada and the significance of kalo (taro) to Native Hawaiians. |
| March 2005 Cheerleader premieres nationally on the HBO Family network. The film will repeat on the network through 2007. The Honolulu Advertiser features an article about the HBO broadcast and the film's upcoming screening at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. |
| February 2005 Making Waves Films receives a planning grant from the Hawai‘i Council for the Humanities for Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority, which funds research trips to Maui and Washington D.C., the initial consultation with humanities scholars and the development of a film script. Cheerleader secures distribution through Documentary Educational Resources (DER), an educational distributor with nearly forty years of experience in producing, distributing and promoting cross-cultural documentary films worldwide. DER will handle all educational and consumer sales and rentals of the film. |
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