__NOTOC__ 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

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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

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in 1996 before moving to the United States to attend the

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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

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, the first Asian woman to do so. Kim served on the jury for the 66th

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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

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in 2017.

Career highlights

Her film ''Invisible Light'' (2003) won the special award at the 2004 Seoul Women's Film Festival, and has been screened at more than 23 film festivals and in over 15 countries. Kim's next film, '' Never Forever'' won the Jury Prize at the 2007

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. ''Faces of Seoul'' premiered at the 2009

. She was later named in ''

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'' as one of the "Talents of Venice". Her 2013 film ''Final Recipe'' also opened the Culinary Cinema section of the 2014

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. ''Tearless'' (2021) was awarded the ''Reflet d'Or'' for the best immersive work at the 27th Geneva International Film Festival. In 2017, L'atelier des Cahiers published ''Séoul, Visages d'une Ville'', a multimedia photo book essay based on Kim's feature-length documentary ''Faces of Seoul'' (2009). In 2018 Kim was listed as one of the "Top Teachers in Film, TV" by

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magazine.

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