From 1992 until 1997 he worked as a musician and producer in Halifax, founding both Tall Poppies and Julia's Rain. In 1997, Kimball was employed as a special consultant by Halifax-based film production company Salter Street Films. He then served as the Program Administrator for the Nova Scotia Film Development Corporation until May 1999, after which he founded the Halifax-based film and television production company Redstar Films Limited. Kimball has served as the President of the Nova Scotia Film and Television Producers Association, a member of the Nova Scotia Film Advisory Committee, and was a founding member of the Motion Picture Industry Association of Nova Scotia. He has also worked as a consultant on the film and television industry to the governments of
Prince Edward Island and
Newfoundland and Labrador.
Film and television As a film and television producer / writer / director since 1999, Kimball has created over a dozen documentaries on a wide range of subjects for myriad networks, including Space, Bravo, Vision TV, CBC, TVNZ, SCN, Knowledge Network, EastLink TV, UFO TV, and TrueVisions. These include paranormal-themed films such as
Stanton T. Friedman is Real (2002),
Fields of Fear (2006), and
Best Evidence: Top 10 UFO Sightings (2007). In 2008–09, he wrote, directed, produced and hosted the television series
Ghost Cases in Canada for EastLink TV. He also wrote, produced and directed two seasons of the television series
The Classical Now (2003–2005), the classical music documentary
Denise Djokic: Seven Days Seven Nights (2003) which featured renowned Canadian cellist
Denise Djokic, and the performance film
Synchronicity (2008), all for
Bravo (Canada). Kimball's first feature film,
Eternal Kiss, was released in 2010 and screened at the Atlantic Film Festival. His second feature film, the supernatural thriller
The Cuckoo and the Clock, and his third feature
Roundabout were released in 2014. Kimball's fourth feature
Exit Thread was released in 2016.
Theater In 2007 Kimball adapted and directed a version of the
Peter Weiss play
Marat / Sade. Kimball followed
Marat / Sade later in the year with the science fiction play
Doing Time, which he co-wrote with American author
Mac Tonnies. It premiered in November in Halifax, Nova Scotia to positive reviews. Kimball also directed
Doing Time at the 2008 Boulder International Fringe Festival.
Politics In June 2016, Kimball announced he was attempting to enter provincial politics by seeking the
Progressive Conservative nomination in the riding of
Halifax Needham. In July 2016, he lost the nomination, finishing third on the first ballot. In October 2016, Kimball was nominated as the Progressive Conservative candidate in
Clayton Park West for the
2017 general election. On election night, Kimball finished second with 26% of the vote to Liberal candidate
Rafah DiCostanzo. ==Paranormal research==