Gina Kim

Quick Facts

Full Name	Gina Kim
Occupation	Director
Date Of Birth	Dec 31, 1973(1973-12-31)
Age	51
Birthplace	South Korea
Country	South Korea
Horoscope	Capricorn

Gina Kim Biography

Gina Kim is one of the most popular and richest Director who was born on December 31, 1973 in South Korea, South Korea. Famous for documentary film projects such as Gina Kim’s Video Diary and Invisible Light, she is also notable for her 2007 romantic drama Never Forever, as well as for her 2013 feature Final Recipe.

Her Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize-nominated work Never Forever stars actors Ha Jung-woo and Vera Farmiga.

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.” Between 2004–2007 and 2013–2014, Kim taught film production and theory classes at Harvard University, being the first Asian woman teaching in her department (Visual and Environmental Studies). Kim was also a member of the Jury for the 66th Venice Film Festival and the Asian Pacific Screen Awards in 2009. Currently, Kim is a Professor at the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television.

Bloodless was awarded the Best VR Story Award at the 74th Venice Film Festival.

After graduating from Seoul National University in her native South Korea, she relocated to the United States to earn her Master of Fine Arts degree from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts).

Gina Kim Net Worth

Gina Kim is one of the richest Director from South Korea. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Gina Kim 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Her early films include shorts titled Heroine, The Picture I Draw, and Ok Man, This Is Your World.

In 2004, she became the first Asian-American film teacher at Harvard. She later accepted an assistant professorship in the University of California-Los Angeles’ School of Theater, Film, and Television (TFT).

Bloodless is a 12 minute VR film that deals with camp town sex workers for US army stationed in South Korea since the 1950s. The film traces the last living moments of a real-life sex worker who was brutally murdered by a US soldier at the Dongducheon Camptown in South Korea in 1992. Portraying the last hours of her life in the camp town, the VR film transposes a historical and political issue into a personal and concrete experience. This film was shot on location where the crime took place, bringing to light ongoing experiences at the 96 camp towns near or around the US military bases.

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Kim’s most recent film is 2013’s Final Recipe, a Thai-Korean co-production starring Michelle Yeoh and Henry Lau. It premiered at the 2013 San Sebastian Film Festival as the opening film for the Culinary Zinema section and was invited to be the opening film for the Hawaii International Film Festival. Final Recipe is the first English-language film made by an Asian director with all Asian stars, and it can be seen as Kim’s response to any sense of a single dominating Asian culture, as well as Hollywood’s past appropriations of Asia. It features actors and crew from all over the continent, such China, Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Thailand. 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 also opened the Culinary Cinema section of the 2014 Berlin Film Festival.

Facts & Trivia

Gina Ranked on the list of most popular Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in South Korea. Gina Kim celebrates birthday on December 31 of every year.

In January 2015, Final Recipe was announced as the first official co- production between China and South Korea.