Gina Kim's five feature-length films, along with her short films have garnered impressive acclaim and have been screened at many prestigious film festivals, such as Berlin, Venice, Locarno, Rotterdam, Buenos Aires, San Sebastian, Pusan, Deauville and Sundance, as well as the MOMA, Centre Pompidou and the Smithsonian. Invisible Light won the special award at the 2004 Seoul Women’s Film Festival has been screened at more than 23 film festivals and in over 15 countries. Neve...More

Gina Kim's five feature-length films, along with her short films have garnered impressive acclaim and have been screened at many prestigious film festivals, such as Berlin, Venice, Locarno, Rotterdam, Buenos Aires, San Sebastian, Pusan, Deauville and Sundance, as well as the MOMA, Centre Pompidou and the Smithsonian. Invisible Light won the special award at the 2004 Seoul Women’s Film Festival has been screened at more than 23 film festivals and in over 15 countries. Never Forever, which was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at 2007 Sundance Film Festival, was awarded the Jury Prize at the 2007 Deauville American Film Festival. Never Forever was the first co-production between the United States and South Korea, and the film was theatrically released in the US, South Korea, and France.

Kim’s most recent film is 2013’s Final Recipe, a pioneering China-Korea co-production starring Michelle Yeoh and Henry Lau (Super Junior - M). With actors and crew from all over the world , the film was shot in Thailand, China and Korea. The Hollywood Reporter commends Kim for how “she conjures a non-exotic piece out of a territory-trotting narrative, where every place is made to seem like home.” Final Recipe screened at the 2014 Berlin Film Festival as the opening film for the Culinary Cinema section and will be theatrically released in 2015.

Between 2004-2007, and from 2013-2014, Kim has taught film production and theory classes at Harvard University (Department of Visual and Environmental Studies), being the first Asian woman teaching in her department. Kim also served as a jury member at many film festivals and awards, such as the Torino Film Festival, Venice Film Festival and Asian Pacific Screen Awards.

Kim received her MFA from Cal Arts and her BFA from Seoul National University.Less