THE STORY SO FAR
ABOUT
Abraham Lim is a Korean American award-winning international director, writer, and producer. He received his BFA/MFA as a scholarship student at New York University.
Over ten years of professional experience in Hollywood and New York, he worked on programs for National Geographic, ESPN, FOX TV, Fox Searchlight, and Sony Pictures. While studying at NYU, he directed over 20 music videos for Polygram, Sony, and Jive records.
His graduate thesis film FLY got the attention of legendary director Robert Altman, who met him after a Directors Guild screening. Altman asked him to edit his next film "Cookie's Fortune" and later signed on as executive producer for Lim's first feature film "Roads and Bridges."
After making two feature films with Asian American casts, positively reviewed in Variety, he turned his attention to working in Asia. Based in Seoul, South Korea, his third feature film "God Is D_ad" won the KOFIC/BFC independent film grant at Busan Film Festival.
Most recently, he directed a children's television show "Magic Carpet" in Singapore, and directed a program for SPIKE TV in Manila featuring MMA star Rampage Jackson. "Where Is Wang Hao", his fourth feature shot across China was completed in 2016. His fifth feature film, a documentary, "Shifting: Journeys Through Antarctica" premiered at the St. Louis International Film Festival in 2021.
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THE NEW CHAPTER
Today, I'm focused on AI video generation and reconstructing my film catalog using tools like Seedance 2.0. The old gates have fallen. The tools of cinema are now available to anyone with a vision and a story to tell.
I'm not done yet. There are still pages to write.