Service Organization Guest — All Access 2021:

Kimberley Ann Surin

Producer and IMPACT Outreach Coordinator, IMPACT

Based in Montreal, Kimberley Ann is a Haitian-Canadian emerging filmmaker. She graduated in 2016 from Pennsylvania State University in Communications - Media Studies, Film and Television, where she was also a member of the tennis team (team captain) and a student-teacher in the film and television department. 

Kimberley Ann has gained experience working for several production companies, including Warner Brothers, Reel FX, Sphère Média Productions, Halo Création, and Aetios Productions. She had the chance to work on a variety of interesting and different projects, from fiction to documentary, advertising and promotional commercials to publicity as well as animation. 

In 2020, she directed and wrote her first documentary, Against All Odds, a short film about the lack of diversity in professional and junior field hockey (currently in post-production) with the main protagonist, retired NHL player, Georges Laraque. Kimberley Ann is currently in development on a feature-length documentary.

Kimberley Ann also wants to help reclaim and reframe the television portrayal of Black, Indigenous, People of Color in the Quebec television industry by telling positive stories that uplift our communities.