FOUNDER | DIRECTOR | PRODUCER

Kimberly Warner is a filmmaker, writer, and founder of Unfixed Media, a storytelling platform dedicated to exploring the creative and emotional dimensions of life with chronic illness and disability.

After developing a rare neurological disorder in 2015, Kimberly turned her artistic focus inward, embracing stillness, intimacy, and relationship as the foundation of her work. In 2019, she launched Unfixed, a media project that now includes award-winning films, limited series, podcasts, memoirs, and live roundtables. Her work has been recognized by PBS, Harvard Medical School, and the Invisible Disabilities Association, among others.

Kimberly leads a larger advocacy role within the chronic illness community where she writes and speaks about her own patient experience. She is a member of the Global Advocacy Alliance, the PPAA (Patient and Physician Advocacy Alliance,) is a visiting faculty member with Global Genes, helped create a Course for Clinical Confidence—a medical school certificate course, is on the editorial board of the Journal of Health Design and is an ambassador for VeDA. She is also Life on the Level’s Best International Contribution Award and the recipient of the Invisible Disabilities Association’s Media Impact Award.

Her forthcoming memoir, Unfixed: A Memoir of Family, Mystery, and the Currents That Carry You Home, will be published by Empress Editions in October 2025.

At the heart of Kimberly’s work is a quiet but insistent inquiry: What if wholeness isn’t something we achieve by healing, but something we remember by listening?

 

BRAND DIRECTOR

David McLaughlin is a brand designer/strategist with over 30 years industry experience working with brands such as Nike, Microsoft, Dell, Apple, Starbucks, Victoria’s Secret, BCBG, Hurley, Pendleton, Hyatt Hotels, Mountain Hardwear, The North Face among others.

Previously he spent nearly 20 years as a designer, art director, and creative director at Nike working in apparel, timing/vision/tech and brand devisions where he held key brand positions in the launching of Nike Women’s and later working closely with Apple launching the initial Nike+ platform. As creative director his role was to prepare visual brand strategy and direction for new product concepts and category launches and develop seasonal direction for existing product ranges.

For the last 12 years he has worked as a consultant helping brands articulate and visualize their stories and positioning. With an extensive background in graphic design and writing, he is able to distill the most complex product or brand proposition into a clear, self-evident consumer facing story. His skill sets include developing brand standards, identity design, photography and photo direction concepting, storyboarding and direction, 3D visualization, packaging and retail.

David currently resides with his wife Kimberly on a small, rural farmstead outside of Portland, Oregon.

 

Unfixed Media Productions is a self-funded labor-of-love. We are currently looking for sponsorships, grants, tax-deductible donations and individual project funding to keep this endeavor alive. I draw no personal income doing this work and the sense of purpose and fulfillment it brings can’t be monetized. But with a vision to grow into a more sustainable endeavor, creating new content for diverse patient communities for years to come, I’m at a point where I need financial support. Filmmaking isn’t a solo sport and any small grant or donation received to date has gone toward paying crew and contractors. If you or anyone you know can help keep this important work alive, please share or donate. Thank you.