For a writer and producer of independent films, Whidbey Island provides the perfect backdrop to create new stories.

Whether at her outdoor desk or sitting on the wraparound porch of her South Whidbey home, Kim Hornsby is busy behind the scenes of a handful of independent movies, some still in development and others currently streaming on Amazon, Roku, TUBI and other platforms.

Released earlier this year, her movie “Braving Rapids” follows a family on a rafting trip in Colorado, where they discover a wolf cub. The youngest daughter, who is adopted, must confront her fears of abandonment while caring for the pup. Hornsby wrote the screenplay and is one of the film’s producers.

“They say don’t work with kids and dogs, but we had kids and dogs in our movie and they were easier than some of

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