Jin Yoo-Kim is a Korean Bolivian filmmaker who lives in Los Angeles. She's written, directed, and produced numerous short
films that have been screened at film festivals across the nation.
Jin is currently enrolled in the MFA in production program at the prestigious USC School of Cinematic Arts.
In 2009, her short film "Pretty" was selected to screen
at the Reel Women Film Festival in March 2009. In 2008, she produced
"Go To Kenny," a short workplace comedy about Kenny, a man who
unwillingly becomes the keeper of all his co-workers' deepest darkest
secrets. In 2007, She produced a short film entitled "BPS" which was
named a Top 10 finalist at the 4th Annual 72 Hour Shootout.
In January 2007, Jin was awarded with the Armed with a Camera
Fellowship through Visual Communications, the premier Asian Pacific
media arts center in the United States. Through this program, she made
a short 5 minute documentary entitled, "Bearing Dreams" on the
Tae-Mong, a type of prophetic dreams Koreans have that determines the
sex, personality, and destiny of their unborn child. "Bearing Dreams"
premiered at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific American Film Festival in
May 2007.