Kim Wood is an American

United States

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 writer and filmmaker.

Works

Her work, based upon the histories of relatively unknown adventurers and eccentrics, includes the Sundance Film Festival

Sundance Film Festival

The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival that takes place annually in Utah, in the United States. It is the largest independent cinema festival in the United States. Held in January in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, as well as at the Sundance Resort, the festival is a showcase for new...

 premiered Advice to Adventurous Girls, and On My Knees, based on the diaries of Hannah Cullwick

Hannah Cullwick

Hannah Cullwick was a Victorian era diarist and domestic servant. She is known for her unusual relationship with Arthur Munby, which they both documented in diaries, letters and photographs.-Early life:...

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Awards

Wood has received the Silver Hugo from the Chicago International Film Festival

Chicago International Film Festival

The Chicago International Film Festival is an annual film festival held every fall. Founded in 1964, it is the longest-running competitive film festival in North America....

 and the Director's Citation from Thomas Edison's Black Maria Film Festival

She is a recipient of grants from the Film Arts Foundation and the Jerome Foundation, and is a MacDowell Colony

MacDowell Colony

The MacDowell Colony is an art colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire, U.S.A., founded in 1907 by Marian MacDowell, pianist and wife of composer Edward MacDowell. She established the institution and its endowment chiefly with donated funds...

 fellow.

Festivals

Her work has screened internationally in festivals and museum exhibits, including the Guggenheim Museum

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

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's The Art of the Motorcycle

The Art of the Motorcycle

The Art of the Motorcycle was an exhibition that presented 114 motorcycles chosen for their historic importance or design excellence in a display designed by Frank Gehry in the curved rotunda of the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, running for three months...

, where she shared the bill with an episode of CHiPs

CHiPs

CHiPs is an American television drama series produced by MGM Studios that originally aired on NBC from September 15, 1977, to July 17, 1983. CHiPs followed the lives of two motorcycle police officers of the California Highway Patrol...

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Filmography

• Wanderlust (1995)
• Advice to Adventurous Girls (1998)
• On My Knees (2003)