Talent Guide

Sarah S. Kim

  • Discipline:Producer
  • Program Year:Fast Track 2018, Producing Lab 2019

Bio

Sarah S. Kim is a creative producer based in New York. She produced the critically acclaimed film August at Akiko’s, directed by Christopher Makoto Yogi, which premiered at Rotterdam and was released by Factory25. She’s currently in post on I Was a Simple Man, which has been supported by the Sundance Labs and Sundance Catalyst, Film Independent, IFP and the Jerome Foundation. She’s produced several international co-productions including a North Korean film called The Other Side of the Mountain, which is in the National Korean Film Archive. She also co-founded the distribution initiative Sentient Art Film.

Current Project

I Was a Simple Man

Logline

The ghosts of the past haunt the countryside in this tale of a Hawai‘i family facing the imminent death of their eldest.