Short Film: Playing at the ANIMATION/EXPERIMENTAL Film Festival – Thursday December 28, 2017
Director Biography
Will Kim is a Los Angeles based artist and filmmaker. Will currently teaches animation and drawing at Riverside City College where he also directs Riverside City College Animation Showcase. Will Kim received an MFA (’09) in Animation from UCLA and a BFA (’07) in Character Animation from Cal Arts. In recent years, he also taught at CalArts, Community Arts Partnership and Sitka Fine Arts Camp as a media art instructor. Kim’s work has showed in over 100 international film/animation festivals and auditoriums including Directors Guild of America (DGA) Theater, Academy of TV Arts and Sciences Theater, The Getty Center, The USC Arts and Humanities Initiative, and Museum of Photographic Arts San Diego. As an animation supervisor and a lead animator, Will has participated in various feature and short live action films that were selected for the New York Times’ Critic’s Pick, the United Nations’ Climate Change Conference, Los Angeles Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, and Cannes.