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Kim Waltrip CEO of Wonderstar Productions is also a producing partner of J3K, LLC.
Kim's newest film EXPECTING MARY will be released in September of 2010. The film stars Elliott Gould, Cloris Leachman, Cybill Shepherd, Della Reese, Fred Willard, Gene Simmons, Linda Gray, Lainie Kazan and Olesya Rulin (from High School Musical). Her PBS special DIAHANN CARROLL, THE LADY, THE MUSIC, THE LEGEND airs in August of 2010 and her just completed horror film, I DIDN’T COME HERE TO DIE will be ready for 2011 distribution.
In 2009 Kim produced the critically acclaimed movie ADOPT A SAILOR which was accepted in over twenty film festivals. The film stars Bebe Neuwirth, Peter Coyote and Ethan Peck, the grandson of Gregory Peck who also won a Best Actor Award at the Sonoma International Film Festival. The film also won The Audience Favorite award at the Salem Film Festival and it has just received a Telly Award. She produced and directed a Children’s video “GRIFFIN GOES TO THE GRAND CANYON” and she established and helped produce the Semper Fi Memorial Honor Detail “AGAIN THEY SERVE” which took the top award in all services of the military. She also was the co-creator of the PATTI GRIBOW SHOW, a television talk show based in the Palm Springs, CA, area.
Kim started her career as a model for the Wilhelmina Modeling Agency in 1976 and she ventured off to Europe where she continued her modeling career in Paris, Munich, Zurich and Milan. She has appeared in numerous television shows and films before moving to Palm Springs to work as the District Director for Congresswoman Mary Bono. There she helped establish the Mary Bono Walk for Children’s Charities,” the “First Annual 44th Congressional District Mock Congress,” was the liaison for the “Triangular Adoption” program which required detail discipline and a commitment to go to sea with the U.S. Navy in celebration of Assault Helicopter Warship’s duties overseas, she was the Team Captain for “Bono’s Beauties and Beasts - American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life.”
She is a Board of Trustee for the Olive Crest Homes for Abused and Neglected Children’s Foundation, who also named a scholarship in her honor, she is a former Board Member of Palm Springs Women in Film and Television, is past Chairwoman of the Richard Oliphant Scholarship Fund, a member of the Blue Ribbon Committee for the General Patton Museum and. Kim was honored with the “Angel of the Year” award by the Olive Crest Foundation, the “Aide de Camp” award by the Semper Fi Memorial Honor Detail, and she received the Woman of Distinction in the Arts 2009 by American Pen Women. |
