Kyung Sok Kim

Director

Biography

South Korea / USA

Kyung Sok Kim is a Korean writer-director based in Los Angeles. After graduating from Hanyang Univerisity in Seoul with a BA degree in Film and Theater, he moved to Los Angeles and earned his MFA degree in Directing from the prestigious American Film Institute (AFI), where he attended as the only Korean fellow of his year. His films have won and screened in numerous film festivals including several Oscar-qualifying ones. Kyung's 2020 film, Furthest From, won the Prize of the Children’s Jury at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (FIAPF Accredited), the Jury prize in the Student Category at the USA Film Festival, and the Silver Remi Award in the Graduate Student Category at the Worldfest-Houston.

Filmography

They're Descendants (2012)
One Summer Night (2014)
The Masterpiece (2015)
Passacaglia (2016)
Ghosts (2017/IV)
The Battle (2017)
Mika (2018)
Recipe (2018)
Daytime Moon (2019)
Thursday's Child (2019)
Furthest From (2020)