Ken Kimmelman, award-winning filmmaker and animator and winner of 1995 National Emmy award for his anti-prejudice public service film "The Heart Knows Better." 

Ken Kimmelman's recent film "What Does A Person Deserve?," a public service film against homelessness, has received a Silver Cindy award and is airing nationally on television and in movie theatres.

Mr. Kimmelman is President of Imagery Film, Ltd., where he has produced films for the United Nations against prejudice and apartheid: "Brushstrokes," winner of Best Children's Film at ASIFA-EAST Film Festival; and "Asimbonanga," which won the Newark Black Film Festival's Paul Robeson Award, Atlanta Film Festival's Director's Choice Award, Cindy Award, ASIFA-East Best Children's Film Award.

He has taught film and animation at New York University and the School of Visual Arts and was a guest lecturer at the Manhattan School of Music. He has presented papers in Aesthetic Realism public seminars on the lives and work of D.W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, Ingmar Bergman, and others, and his articles have been published in journals and newspapers across the United States.

On Racism. Mr. Kimmelman is a lecturer on the Aesthetic Realism understanding of racism and has spoken at the Brooklyn Children's Museum, Queens Borough Public Library, and in schools, colleges and community organizations.

He has made many films for the Children's Television Workshops and in 1997-98 received an Emmy Award for his contributions to Sesame Street.

In 1992 & ‘93 he received Emmy nominations and an Ace nomination as a director on the animated TV series "Doug."

In 1968 Ken Kimmelman produced and directed the documentary film "People Are Trying to Put Opposites Together" which featured Eli Siegel teaching an Aesthetic Realism class. The film was broadcasted on New York's PBS station WNET-TV.

He has also produced political films, theatricals and TV commercials; and a film for New York City Opera's "Beatrix Cenci" performed at Lincoln Center; and a series about environmental protection titled "Mr. Hiccup." In 1995-96 he was director on the animated series "Daria" for MTV; in 1999 he was a director on "The Wild Thornberries" for Clasky-Csupo. He produced films for the Children's Museum of Manhattan for a major exhibit titled "Body Odyssey."

Currently he is working on a film based on Eli Siegel's 1925 Nation prize-winning poem "Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana". Also in development at this time are a documentary about a noted bus driver and his study of the cello; a documentary about Anna Ella Carroll, a Civil War heroine; a documentary about Horn & Hardart's Automat; and an animated TV series titled Pig William.

In July, 2004 Ken Kimmelman spoke against racism at the CSEA (New York City & State Employees Association) educational conference. In March, 2004, he was a speaker at NYU's Anti-Hunger League. In 2003, he was Keynote speaker at Boston University's Community Service Outreach Program. At the American Institute of Architects 2000 Convention in Philadelphia, he participated in a presentation: "Housing–A Basic Right, an Urgent Need, an Architectural Priority: Aesthetic Realism Explains America's Housing Crisis, the Cause and the Solution!,"which was also given at the annual conference of the National Student Campaign Against Hunger & Homelessness at the University of Maryland, and at the Campus Out-reach Opportunity Conference (COOL) at Harvard University.