Paula Un Mi Kim was born and raised in Sao Paulo, Brazil. She completed her undergraduate studies in filmmaking, majoring in scriptwriting and cinematography from the University of Sao Paulo. At the age of 18 she won the Festival Mundial do Minuto (1-minute World Festival) with the animated short video “Explicit Sex”.
Still in university, she worked as assistant animator for stop-motion commercials, script adviser and collaborator, wrote texts for children and adolescents for the State Channel website TV CULTURA, and later became a decoration magazine producer and photo editor at the Brazilian publisher Editora Abril.
In 2006 she went to Seoul, South Korea. For a year, she prepared for the difficult entrance exam of KNUA, while also learning Korean. In 2007 she was approved at The Korean National University of Arts and directed “Chu-mar” (Weekend), “26, Best Korean Girl” and “Gonnyon’s first drive”.
She recently worked as executive producer trainee and onelight telecine coordinator for the Brazilian&Denmark co-production “ROSA MORENA”. Now she is working on scripts for an HBO Brazil series and for her debut feature film. Her first feature project was semi-finalist at the Hubert Bals Development Funding, for the Residence at Cinefondacion (Cannes Film Festival) and participated at the BoliviaLab 2010.
Paula Un Mi Kim was born and raised in Sao Paulo, Brazil. She completed her undergraduate studies in filmmaking, majoring in scriptwriting and cinematography from the University of Sao Paulo. At the age of 18 she won the Festival Mundial do Minuto (1-minute World Festival) with the animated short video “Explicit Sex”.
Still in university, she worked as assistant animator for stop-motion commercials, script adviser and collaborator, wrote texts for children and adolescents for the State Channel website TV CULTURA, and later became a decoration magazine producer and photo editor at the Brazilian publisher Editora Abril.
In 2006 she went to Seoul, South Korea. For a year, she prepared for the difficult entrance exam of KNUA, while also learning Korean. In 2007 she was approved at The Korean National University of Arts and directed “Chu-mar” (Weekend), “26, Best Korean Girl” and “Gonnyon’s first drive”.
She recently worked as executive producer trainee and onelight telecine coordinator for the Brazilian&Denmark co-production “ROSA MORENA”. Now she is working on scripts for an HBO Brazil series and for her debut feature film. Her first feature project was semi-finalist at the Hubert Bals Development Funding, for the Residence at Cinefondacion (Cannes Film Festival) and participated at the BoliviaLab 2010.
