Kim Bora 김보라
Kim in 2019
Born	(1981-11-30)November 30, 1981 (age 43) Seoul,South Korea
Education	Kyewon Arts High School Dongguk University (B.A.) Columbia University (M.F.A.)
Occupation	Filmmaker
Years active	2018–present
Notable work	House of Hummingbird
Korean name
Hangul	김보라
Revised Romanization	Kim Bora
McCune–Reischauer	Kim Pora

Kim Bora (Korean: 김보라; born November 30, 1981) is a South Korean filmmaker. Her short film,The Recorder Exam won numerous awards including the Best Student Filmmaker Award from The Directors Guild of America. The film was also a National Finalist for the 2012 Student Academy Awards. Kim’s debut featureHouse of Hummingbird received production support from theKorean Film Council, Seoul Film Commission and Asian Cinema Fund of Busan International Film Festival. The film received post-production support from the Sundance Institute’s Feature Film Program and was selected as an IFP Narrative Lab Fellow. It premiered at theBusan International Film Festival, where it won the NETPAC award and the KNN Audience award. The film went on to collect 59 awards from prestigious festivals, including Berlinale, Tribeca, BFI London, Istanbul, Jerusalem, and aBlue Dragon award—Korea’s equivalent of an Oscar.^[1]

At the 69th Berlin International Film Festival, Kim won the Grand Prix of the Generation 14plus withHouse of Hummingbird.^[2]

Born in South Korea in 1981, Kim Bora graduated fromDongguk University with a degree in film. In 2007, she left forColumbia University in the U.S., and received a Masters of Fine Arts in film directing. Her filmThe Recorder Exam (2011) was her created graduation film project, and it won Best Student Filmmaker for the East Region from the Directors Guild of America. After the release of the film, Kim began to work on the script that would be based on her own childhood. Later, she moved back to Korea and gave lectures in the colleges where she studied.^[3]

In 2018, after seven years of working on the script and production, her debut filmHouse of Hummingbird was released, winning multiple awards.^[3] The film also received production support from the Korean Film Council (KOFIC), Seoul Film Commission, as well as Asian Cinima Fund of Busan International Film Festival.^[4]House of Hummingbird is a coming-of-age film about a girl, Eun-hee, who was a part of the expanding 1990's economy, and, due to her flawed family, is searching for validation through love and reasons to continue living.^[5][6][7] Kim said that the incidents in this film are based on incidents and events that occurred throughout her childhood, after having a nightmare in while living in New York and decided to understand what she had gone through.^[2][3][7]

• The Recorder Exam (2011) - director
• House of Hummingbird (2018) - director, screenwriter, executive producer

• Grand Bell Awards winners
• South Korean women film directors
• Living people
• 1981 births
• Dankook University alumni
• Columbia University School of the Arts alumni
• Best Director Paeksang Arts Award (film) winners

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