Kimberly Warner is a film director and producer based in Oregon.

Kimberly has written, shot, directed and edited narrative films, webisodes and corporate and non-profit brand videos. She’s written and directed two of her own narrative short films and both have screened at film festivals globally and garnered numerous awards. 

In 2015, Kimberly developed cervicogenic vertigo and Mal de Débarquement Syndrome, an incurable neurological disorder that manifests as a feeling of constant rocking, bobbing or swaying. As months turned to years, her sense of self dissipated as her relationship to her body, her career and her community faded.

After years of isolation and desperately chasing a fix, Kimberly founded Unfixed Media Productions in 2019 to share stories of those living with chronic or rare conditions and how adversity can complete us and broaden our definition of what it means to live a “good life.” 

These inevitable peaks and valleys of living with an incurable, chronic condition are part of an expanding Unfixed portfolio that currently includes a docu-series, mini-series, podcast, round-table webcast, and feature documentary film all in production. 

Unfixed Media Productions has led to Kimberly’s larger advocacy role within the chronic illness community where, alongside directing and producing media, she writes and speaks about her own patient experiences and how healing can exist even when our bodies can’t be cured. She is a member of the PPAA (Patient and Physician Advocacy Alliance, helped create a Course for Clinical Confidence - a medical school certificate course -  and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Health Design. She is also the 2020 recipient of the Invisible Disabilities Association’s Media Impact Award. 

When Kimberly isn’t nurturing and developing the many facets of Unfixed, she works a small, sustainable homestead with her husband in rural Oregon. 

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