Sujin Kim is an experimental filmmaker, digital visual artist, and art educator.
CONTACT
EDUCATION
MFA Experimental Animation, California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), CA, USA
BFA Painting, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENT
Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Animation, School of Art, Herberger Institute
for Design and the Arts, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA
HONORS
2022 Best Animation Director, Shenzhen International Film Festival, Shenzhen, China
2022 Best of the Fest, 64th Rochester International Film Festival, New York, USA
2022 Best Animation, Long Story Shorts International Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania
2022 Animaze Animation Awards Nominee, Animaze Montreal International Animation Film Festival, Montreal, Canada
2021 48th Student Academy Awards Gold Medal in Animation Category, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
2021 Academy Film Archive, Unforgotten(2020) stored in a digital repository at the University of Southern California
2019-2020 ASIFA-Hollywood’s Animation Educators Forum Scholarship, ASIFA-Hollywood’s Animation Educators Forum
2019-2020 Experimental Animation Named Awards: Jules Engel Scholarship, California Institute of the Arts
2019 Adobe Prize, EMAP 2019: Ewha Media Art Presentation
2017-2019 Lillian Disney Scholarship, California Institute of the Arts
2013 Ewha Vision Artist, Best Graduation Work Title, Ewha Womans University
SELECTED SCREENINGS
2023 Dissolution, Edinburgh Short Film Festival, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
2023 Dissolution, International Short Film Festival of Cyprus, International Competition
Section, Limassol, Cyprus
2023 Dissolution, Linoleum Animation Festival, Experimental Animation and Video Art
Program, Kyiv, Ukraine
2023 Mold, Animest Bucharest International Animation Film Festival, Experimental
DANCE Program, Bucharest, Romania, Invitational
2023 Dissolution, Vancouver Independent - International Film Festival, Vancouver, Canada
2023 Dissolution, Montreal International Animation Film Festival, Montreal, Canada
2023 Dissolution, Caorle Independent Film Festival, Venice, Italy
2023 Dissolution, Viborg International Animation Festival, Best Experimental Competition,
Viborg, Denmark
2023 Dissolution, Imaginaria International Animation Film Festival, International Short
Film Main Competition, Conversano, Italy
2023 Dissolution, Neum Animated Film Festival, Neum, Competition Program, Bosnia and
Herzegovina
2023 Dissolution, Insomnia International Animation Film Festival, International
Competition - Professional, Moscow, Russia
2022 Unforgotten, Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive
Techniques (SIGGRAPH) Asia Symposium, Computer Animation Festival Electronic
Theater Program, Daegu, South Korea
2022 Unforgotten, 27th International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA), Screening
Program, Barcelona, Spain
2022 Unforgotten, Animaze Montreal International Animation Film Festival, Montreal,
Canada
2022 Unforgotten, Shenzhen International Film Festival, Shenzhen, China
2022 Unforgotten, Love and Hope International Film Festival, Barcelona, Spain
2022 Unforgotten, Morocco Shorts International Film Festival, International Animated or
Experimental Film Competition, Rabat, Morocco
2022 Unforgotten, Long Story Shorts International Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania
2022 Unforgotten, Grand River Film Festival, Waterloo, Canada
2022 Unforgotten, Feel The Reel International Film Festival, Glasgow, UK
2022 Unforgotten, International Alexandria Short Film Festival, Alexandria, Egypt
2022 Unforgotten, 17th Ammerman Biennial Symposium for Arts and Technology
Symposium, Art Exhibition Program, Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut,
USA
2022 Unforgotten, 64th Rochester International Film Festival, Rochester, New York, USA
2022 Unforgotten, International Film Festival Manhattan, Online
2022 Unforgotten, City of Angels Women's Film Festival, Los Angeles, California, USA
2022 Unforgotten, Atlanta Underground Film Festival, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
2022 Unforgotten, New Jersey International Film Festival, New Brunswick, New Jersey,
USA
2022 Unforgotten, RiverRun International Film Festival, Winston-Salem, North Carolina,
USA
2022 Unforgotten, Arizona International Film Festival, Tucson, Arizona, USA
2022 Unforgotten, 70th Year Columbus International Film and Animation Festival,
Columbus, Ohio, USA
2022 Unforgotten, ASIFA-Hollywood’s Short Film of the Month, Online
2022 Unforgotten, Amelia Island Film Festival, Fernandina Beach, Florida, USA
2021 Unforgotten, Tampere Film Festival, International Competition, Tampere, Finland
2021 Mold, Athens International Film and Video Festival, Athens, Ohio, USA
2021 Lament, London International Short Film Festival, London, UK
2021 Unforgotten, 48th Student Academy Awards, Los Angeles, California, USA
2021 Unforgotten, Los Angeles Women’s International Film Festival, Los Angeles,
California, USA
2021 Unforgotten, REDCAT Showcase 2021, REDCAT, Los Angeles, California, USA
2019 Mold, Annecy International Animated Film Festival, Annecy, France
2019 Mold, A Night for Korean Animation, Bucheon International Animation Festival,
Annecy, France
2019 Mold, EMAP 2019: Ewha Media Art Presentation, Seoul, Korea
2019 Mold, Sound & Vision/Experiment, Volksbühne Theater, Berlin, Germany
2019 Mold, Castelli Animati, Rome, Italy
2019 Mold, International Sound & Film Music Festival (ISFMF), Pula, Croatia
2019 Mold, ANIMA- Córdoba International Animation Festival, Córdoba, Argentina
2019 Mold, Five Continents International Film Festival, Online
2019 Mold, Insomnia Animation Festival, Moscow, Russia
2019 Mold, Independent Shorts Awards, Online
2019 Mold, Quartier Des Spectacles Montréal, Montreal, Canada
2019 Mold, ANIMA MUNDI, São Paulo, Brazil
2019 Mold, REDCAT Showcase 2019, REDCAT, Los Angeles, California, USA
2019 Mold, Denver Film Festival, Denver, Colorado, USA
2018 Mold, Les Sommets du cinéma d'animation, Montreal, Canada
2018 Mold, 34th International Short Film Festival Berlin, Berlin, Germany