Jin Yoo-Kim
Filmmaker
About the Artist

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.