ABOUT PAIGE

Paige Morrow Kimball was raised with a Steenbeck in the closet of her Brooklyn apartment. When her dad wasn’t working the night shift as a DeeJay on the radio, he taught her to make films on celluloid. Together they made classics like “The Great Cookie Bake” and she was hooked on filmmaking. She attended NYU and began her career producing music videos for Atlantic Records and sports documentaries for the Olympics. She went on to produce and direct unscripted television shows including HBO’s PROJECT GREENLIGHT, ABC’s OPRAH WINFREY SHOW and many more.

Later, she established herself in the scripted world, directing 14 films for HBO’s iconic show, SESAME STREET. Paige filmed her short documentary, POWERS, on her iphone, during the pandemic which played in Academy Qualifying Festivals and won NINE Festival Awards to date. She is in late development of her award-winning feature film, LATE BLOOMERS.  PBS For The ARTS commissioned Paige to create and direct OFF THE WALL: LOS ANGELES, a short documentary for their ongoing streaming series, garnering the highest number of views of the series on their Social Media channels. 

Her highly acclaimed social justice short, PLAY DATE, won seven festival awards and was distributed by Amazon Prime and Omeleto.com. Paige directed comedy pilot, EXILED OUT EAST and wrote and directed award-winning comedy, ENDING UP, a ShortsHD Movie of the Week distributed by ROKU’s ZPTV.

Paige was in the CBS Directors Program, the SONY Directors Program, the inaugural DGA Diverse Directors Mentorship Program and the WEFORSHE DirectHer Program and has shadowed eight veteran TV directors.

As an Actor, Paige has appeared in many television shows, films, commercials and live theatre.  Paige’s articles about gender parity and ageism in Hollywood have been published in The Huffington Post and Women’s Voices for Change. She Co-Founded Woman Directors advocacy group @Best DirectHER,  spearheading efforts by DGA women members to  garner more director awards for women.

Paige holds a BFA from NYU Film School and lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two daughters.

Paige’s film projects have won many awards:

• Cleveland Int’l Film Festival: Best Women’s Short Film
• Outshine Film Festival: Best Short Film
• Wicked Queer Film Festival: Best in Show
• Cordillera Film Festival: Special Jury Nominee
• Woods Hole Film Festival: Runner Up: Best Short Documentary
• Downtown LA Film Festival: Best Short Documentary
• Port Townsend Film Festival: Best Short Documentary
• Ojai Film Festival
• Pittsburgh Shorts Film Festival
• Napa Valley Film Festival: Audience Favorite 
• Boston Kids Int’l Film Festival: Best Short Film
• International Family Film Festival: Best Short Film
• Moondance Int’l Film Festival: Best Short & Best Child Actor
• San Jose Shorts Int’l Film Festival: Audience Favorite
• Park City Int’l Film Festival: Best Short Finalist
• Hendricks Foundation: Quarter Finalist Prize Winner
• Coverfly: Top 1% & Top 20 of the Month
• ScreenCraft Film Fund: Finalist
• Atlanta Film Festival Script Competition: Quarter Finalist
• The Writers Lab: Semi-Finalist
• Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition: Second Rounder
• Launch Pad Competition: Second Rounder 
• Screen Craft Drama Competition: Semi Finalist
• Nichol: Top 15%
• Sundance Writers Lab: Final Rounder