Kimberley Juras

Kimberley is a passionate and respected journalist, who began working with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, back in the early 1990s, as a Parenting Columnist contributing documentaries and news items to National and provincial programming in Toronto, until 1995 when she joined CBC Windsor. While at CBC Windsor, Kimberley was a reporter, editor and back-up producer for afternoon news and current affair programming.   Kimberley also produced many individual videos for patients at end of life through her company Lifesong Stories for The Hospice of Windsor and Essex County. The stories varied from the stories of their lives all the way to individual love letters/videos for their loved ones that they were leaving behind.  

Kim is currently working on two documentaries about healing, this human trafficking film and Culture Kills Cultural Healers.  

Kimberley became connected to Hildebrand Productions and Intelligent Heart Collective in the winter of 2018. She has helped produce and manage the latest project, a live online event that helped raise money for the Italian Red Cross.  She continues to work on various ongoing film related projects with them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7fbMuwvxgQ  Since the beginning of 2021 Kimberley has produced and created 550 online virtual field trips with school children from 4 different school boards through her company.  

During the Covid-19 lockdown in Ontario, students were not allowed to leave the schools and for most of the time were attending online school at home.  The field trips are a combination of live teaching and high-quality close up videos and graphics – all scripted.  They trips can be compared to a deconstructed documentary with room in between for interaction from students.  Experts and guides lead the students on these special “trips”.   

Kimberley is connected to Amanda Gellman through Manon and is currently working on another documentary project as co-producer.  The film is aimed at helping victims of human trafficking to heal and come back from this terrible place.