Gina Kim (filmmaker)

Gina Kim (born 1973, South Korea) is a filmmaker and academic. Kim's five feature-length films and short films have garnered acclaim through screenings at most major film festivals and at venues such as the MOMA, Centre Pompidou and the Smithsonian. According to Film Comment, Kim has "a terrific eye, a gift for near-wordless storytelling, a knack for generating a tense gliding rhythm between images and sounds, shots and scenes, and for yielding a quality of radiance in her actors".

Kim received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Seoul National University in 1996 before moving to the United States to attend the California Institute of the Arts where she received her Masters of Fine Arts in 1999. She began her film career shortly thereafter with her first film, Gina Kim's Video Diary.

Between 2004–2007 and 2013–2014, Kim taught film production and theory classes at Harvard University, the first Asian woman to do so. Kim served on the jury for the 66th Venice Film Festival and the Asian Pacific Screen Awards in 2009.

She curated the series "Visions from the South: South Korean Films from 1960–2003" at the Harvard Film Archive. As acknowledgment of special contribution to the teaching of undergraduates at Harvard College, she was awarded a Certificate of Teaching Excellence from Harvard University in October 2014.

Kim became a professor at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television in 2017.