Name Kim Waltrip | Role Film producer | |
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Movies Hit and Run, Expecting Mary, Back in the Day, A Thousand Cuts, I Didn't Come Here to Die Similar People Jim Casey, Nate Tuck, David Palmer, Charles Evered, Andrew Panay | ||
Kim waltrip jim casey
Kim Waltrip is a Producer, Director and President of Wonderstar Productions, [1]
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Career
Waltrip was producer/executive producer of such films as The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby Him, Her, and Them, Hit and Run, Back in the Day, An Evergreen Christmas starring Robert Loggia Naomi Judd Charleene Closshey a Booboo Stewart Tyler Ritter Jake Sandvig Greer Grammer - A Very Mary Christmas starring Elliott Gould, Cloris Leachman, Cybill Shepherd, Della Reese, Fred Willard, Gene Simmons, Linda Gray, Lainie Kazan, and Olesya Rulin. The PBS special Diahann Carroll, The Lady, The Music, The Legend. Also, I Didn't Come Here to Die - A Thousand Cuts starring Michael O'Keefe, Olesya Rulin, David Naughton, Jimmy Van Patten. Her film Adopt a Sailor, starring Bebe Neuwirth, Peter Coyote and Ethan Peck, was accepted in over twenty film festivals and also won The Audience Favorite Award at the Salem Film Festival. Jerome's Bouquet a short film directed by Bebe Neuwirth and Chris Calkins. She produced and directed a children's video Griffin Goes to the Grand Canyon. She also 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 has also directed commercials and music videos.
Personal life
Waltrip started her career as a model for the Wilhelmina Modeling Agency, where she ventured off to Europe and 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. While 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 currently serves on the board of the Variety Children's Charities of the Desert, has served on the board of trustees for the Olive Crest Homes for Abused and Neglected Children's Foundation, who honored her with the "Angel of the Year Award". She is a former board member of Palm Springs Women in Film and Television and was honored with the "Diva Award" at the Broken Glass Awards in 2012. She serves on the advisory board of CBS local 2, the Steve Chase Humanitarian Awards and is a former board member of the Indian Wells Rotary Club. She has organized events as the Concert for Katrina and the Hurricane Sandy Relief Benefit, raising money for the Red Cross and Find Food Bank. Waltrip was honored with "Aide de Camp" award by the Semper Fi Memorial Honor Detail, received the "Woman of Distinction" in the Arts 2009 by American Pen Women. and received the Appreciate Award from the Semper Fi Memorial Honor Detail again in 2011. Kim and Jim received a proclamation from the City of Palm Springs declaring August 24 "Kim and Jim Day" and she was just honored with the "Desert Visionary Award" by the Women's Leaders Forum and the 2013 Woman of Distinction Award by the California State Assembly, District 42. Waltrip was honored with the Entrepreneur of the Year award by Palm Springs Life Magazine in 2013.