Kim Hopkins
United Kingdom
Kim Hopkins – Producer/Director
Kim is from Yorkshire, England. Born to an American father and an English mother, Kim has spent most of her life in the UK.
A graduate of the UK, National Film & Television School, Kim has been making award-winning TV documentaries for nearly 15 years. She has directing/shooting/producing credits for: BBC, Channel 4, Discovery, National Geographic and Al Jazeera amongst others. She is now a company director of ‘Labor Of Love Films Ltd’, a UK based Production Company.
Feature documentaries include: Man In The Sand (BBC2 primetime) a music documentary featuring Woody Guthrie, Natalie Merchant, Wilco, Billy Bragg, Corey Harris etc. Wanted (WDR/A&E, Locarno, Viennale London Int. Film Fests) a film about Native American reservation cops. Folie á Deux: madness made of two, (IDFA, BBC Storyville) a film that explores the human cost of the banking crisis. Kim is currently in production of 'Voices of the Sea - A Cuban Odyssey' a feature documentary inspired by E. Hemingway's 'The Old Man and the Sea'
Kim also teaches documentary film production: NFTS/LFS/St Johns Uni. Kim was also instrumental in setting up the documentary department at Escuela Internacional de Cine y Television de San Antonio, Cuba.
Affiliations: BECTU & DirectorsUK
Awards/Nominations
• Winner: ‘World TV Award’ "Contributing to Conflict Resolution" (2009)
• Winner: ‘Amanda Award’ (Norway) 2009
• Nominated for Broadcast Award: Best Multi Channel Series (2006)
• Jerwood Foundation Award for Creative Documentary (1996)