CRYSTAL JIN KIM
Crystal Jin Kim is an artist and award-winning independent filmmaker from Atlanta, Georgia. She is a 2023-2025 Filmmaker in Residence with the Atlanta Film Society and a 2020-2022 alumnus of The Creatives Project’s Artist-in-Studio residency program. She received Asian Cultural Empowerment's inaugural Grant Award in 2021, is a 2023 Hambidge Center Fellow, and was nominated for the 2023 United States Artists Fellowship award in filmmaking.
Crystal graduated from Northwestern University in 2014 with two Bachelor of Arts degrees, one in Radio/Television/Film and the other in Art Theory and Practice.
Her short films have screened at numerous film festivals in the U.S. and abroad. These include the Atlanta Film Festival, Seoul International Youth Film Festival, and CAAMFest.
Her films often feature characters who struggle to love the people they love most. Crystal's arts practice also includes cut mother-of-pearl, photography, drawing, and painting.