Kimberly Townes is a candidate for a Masters in Fine Arts with an emphasis in Directing and Production at the University of California-Los Angeles. Kimberly's most recent work, Planting Hope, was funded by a grant from the Bill &Melinda Gates Foundation to highlight non-traditional education. It won the 2011 IFC/ Time Warner Cable short film contest and was recently broadcast on Time Warner Cable's Free On Demand Channel.