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SUJIN KIM

  • ANIMATION
    • Unforgotten (2021)
    • Baby Parrot (2019)
    • MOLD (2018)
  • MUSIC VIDEO
  • SHOWREEL
  • BIO

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Sujin Kim is a filmmaker, visual artist, and assistant professor of 3D animation in School of Art at Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts of Arizona State University in the U.S. She is a recipient of Gold medal at 48th Student Academy Awards in Animation category. Her films have been exhibited and screened in many film festivals around the world.

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Kim has flexible visual languages ranging from traditional painting to CG(computer graphics) techniques. Her artistic passion is to create poetic photorealism while searching for alternative modes of storytelling in animation film-making. Her commercial projects include collaborations with Roc Nation, Epitaph Records, and Warner Music UK.

 

 

 

 

CONTACT

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sujinkimart@gmail.com

 

 

 

 

EDUCATION

 

MFA Experimental Animation, California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), CA, USA

BFA Painting, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea

 

 

 

 

HONORS

 

2022 Nomination Judge on the Student Film for the 49th Annual ASIFA-Hollywood Annie Awards

2021 48th Student Academy Awards (Oscar) 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

 

 

 

 

SELECT SCREENINGS

 

2022 ISEA (27th International Symposium on Electronic Art), Barcelona, Spain

2022 RiverRun International Film Festival, Winston-Salem, USA

2022 Los Angeles Women's International Film Festival, LA, USA

2022 Amelia Island Film Festival, Florida, USA

2022 International Alexandria Short Film Festival, Alexandria, Egypt

2021 Student Academy Awards, LA, USA

2021 Athens International Film and Video Festival, Ohio, USA

2021 REDCAT Showcase 2021, REDCAT, LA, USA

2021 Tampere Film Festival, Tampere, Finland 

2019 LA Film Awards, LA, USA
2019 Castelli Animati, Rome, Italy
2019 International Sound & Film Music Festival (ISFMF), Pula, Croatia
2019 ANIMA- Córdoba International Animation Festival, Córdoba, Argentina
2019 Denver Film Festival, Denver, USA
2019 Insomnia Animation Festival, Moscow, Russia
2019 Quartier Des Spectacles Montreal, Montreal, Canada
2019 ANIMA MUNDI, São Paulo, Brazil
2019 Annecy International Animated Film Festival, Annecy, France
2019 A Night for Korean Animation, BIAF Bucheon International Animation Festival, Annecy, France

2019 EMAP: Ewha Media Art Presentation, Seoul, Korea
2019 REDCAT Showcase, REDCAT Theater, LA, USA
2018 Les Sommets du cinéma d'animation - Festival international de Montréal, Montreal, Canada

2018 Sound & Vision, 34th International Short Film Festival Berlin, Berlin, Germany

2018 Experiment - Off the Beaten Path, 34th International Short Film Festival Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Credits to SUJIN KIM