Planting Hope is now LIVE on the Gates Foundation’s YouTube Channel!
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July31st
No CommentsLIVE on YouTube!
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July31st
No CommentsDocumenting the Documentarian
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See my interview for the documentary on the UCLA/ Gates filmmakers.
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July13th
No CommentsPlanting Hope (trailer)
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Planting Hope PROMO from kimberly townes on Vimeo.CLICK HERE TO SEE THE FULL VERSION
SYNOPSIS: Planting Hope documents Master Topiary Surrealist, Pearl Fryar and his campaign to provide funding for high school graduates that show promise despite having low test scores and GPA’s. This project will be the first of it’s kind to document the virtues of the Pearl Fryar Garden and his trans-formative message of love, peace, and positive thinking.
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February6th
No CommentsCheck out my Spotlight Interview with Amaimi Consulting’s Exchange Place–An online resource created to help individuals and start-up businesses reach their entrepreneurial dreams.
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January28th
No CommentsPlanting Hope gets a Green light!
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Green light!Planting Hope is one of eight productions chosen by UCLA and the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation to spread awareness about non-traditional means of education.
SYNOPSIS: Planting Hope documents Master Topiary Surrealist, Pearl Fryar and his campaign to provide funding for high school graduates that show promise despite having low test scores and GPA’s. This project will be the first of it’s kind to document the virtues of the Pearl Fryar Garden and his trans-formative message of love, peace, and positive thinking.
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January23rd
No CommentsBroken Dolls to screen at the 18th Annual Pan African Film and Arts Festival!!!
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“Dolls don’t share secrets”
The 18th annual Pan African Film and Arts Festival hosted by Avatar’s CCH Pounder has accepted my first short film Broken Dolls
Screening(s)
2010 StudentFest Selection 2/11, 2/12, 2/16, 2/17Venue
Culver Plaza Theatres, 9919 Washington Boulevard, Los AngelesCredits
Director(s): Kimberly Townes
Written By: Kimberly Townes
Produced By: Kimberly TownesCast: Bianca DeGroat, Mike Edwards and Ingrid Walters
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December17th
No CommentsZERO is the Official Winner of the 2009 UCLA/ Alfred P. Sloan Film Production Grant and the Wasserman Thesis Award!!!
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ZERO, thesis film, is the official winner of the 2009 Alfred P. Sloan Film production grant!!! Zero is also the winner of the 2009 Wasserman Thesis Production Award.The goal of the SLOAN film schools program is to influence the next generation of filmmakers to create more realistic and dramatic stories about science and technology and to challenge existing stereotypes about scientists and engineers through the visual media. This innovative program awards prizes at six leading film schools:
* American Film Institute
* UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
* Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama
* Columbia University Film Department
* NYU Tisch School of the Arts
* USC School of Cinematic ArtsClick here for more information
or visit: http://www.sloan.org/program/18/page/40
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July2nd
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VISIT:http://artsci.ucla.edu/katrina
Kimberly Townes – Content Producer, Editor, Research AssistantUCLA Katrina: NO-LA premieres at SIGGRAPH 09 in New Orleans at the Information Aesthetics Showcase.
The Katrina Project: NO-LA is a database-driven, activist website that explores the psychological and social effects of the storm and its aftermath through interviews with, and works by, filmmakers, artists, dancers, musicians, architects and cooks in New Orleans and Los Angeles. -
April28th
No CommentsUCLA Body Art & Disease Symposium screens Pretty Girl
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‘HOW TO BECOME A PRETTY GIRL’
TO BE SCREENED AT THE UCLA BODY ART DISEASE SYMPOSIUMEDA BROAD ARTS CENTER NOV. 6, 2008 – 7:30 PM LOS ANGELES, CA
AboutKIM
Directing Reel (HD)
Last spring I was one of eight directors endowed with an opportunity from UCLA and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to direct a short film as a part of their inspiring action in education campaign. My film, Planting Hope, documents Pearl Fryar...
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