Jin Yoo-Kim Bay Area Video Coalition

JIN YOO-KIM is a Bolivian-born Korean American filmmaker who directed and produced for Take Out With Lisa Ling. She produced and impact produced Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust and is the co-director of the BAVC MediaMaker Fellowship, an annual fellowship devoted to supporting emerging documentary filmmakers with a grant and year long support. Jin co-produced A Woman’s Work: The NFL’s Cheerleader Problem, co-produced K-TOWN ‘92, and was the impact producer for Try Harder!, Waking Dream, and Blowin’ Up. She was an impact lab facilitator for A-Doc’s Impact Fellowship 2024, an American Film Showcase envoy to mentor Ladera Sur’s 2023 inaugural audiovisual lab overseeing 12 fellows in Chile (in Spanish), and was an impact mentor for the 2022 A-Doc x Haverford Impact Lab for Liquor Store Dreams. She was a 2022-2023 Sundance Women to Watch Adobe Fellow, and a 2022 US – South Korea NextGen Creative Fellow. Jin was also a 2020 Sundance Creative Producers Fellow, a 2020 Film Independent X CNN Original Series Docuseries Fellow, a 2020-2021 Redford Center fellow, a 2020 Film Independent Doc Lab fellow, and a 2017 Firelight Media Impact Producing Fellow. She is currently pursuing her MA in Clinical Psychology at Pepperdine University. Her goal is to serve the mental health needs of the documentary field and help build a healing-informed pipeline. She received her MFA in Film from USC and a BA in Psychology and Cinema & Media Studies from Wellesley College.