Michelle Kim

Michelle Kim was born in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada to a human-rights-lawyer father of British descent and a fashion-designer mother of Korean descent. Educated in the public school system’s French Immersion and the International Baccalaureate programs, she went on to earn a Bachelor of Arts in Canadian Studies at the University of British Columbia, where she started working as a journalist and began acting in short films.

Upon graduation, Kim moved to London, England to work as a journalist for BBC Radio Five Live and BBC World Service. Kim then returned to Vancouver to pursue a career in the film industry.

Kim has acted in and produced several films including "In No Particular Order," which premiered at the 2012 Vancouver International Film Festival; Terry Miles’ "Cinemanovels," which premiered at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival; the Korean-language film "Sarangi Museoweo;" "The Goodbye Girl," which won the 2012 NSI Drama Prize; and "Lost Lagoon," which won the Tony Lee Williams Award for Outstanding Canadian Feature Film at the 2013 Reelworld Film Festival in Toronto.

Kim also wrote, co-directed, and acted in "The Tree Inside." The film has played at the Vancouver Asian Feature (where it won the “Audience Award for Outstanding Canadian Feature” award) the Northwest Filmmakers’ Film Festival in Portland (where it won the “Favourite Narrative Feature” award), LaFemme Film Festival in LA, the Local Sightings Film Festival in Seattle, and The Green Film Festival in Seoul. In addition to her film work, Kim also writes novels.