Paul Kim

Paul B. Kim is an active director and documentary cinematographer specializing in personal narrative and cinéma vérité documentaries, and is known to collaborate with producer/directors on critically important, unfunded indie docs. He has two decades of experience in the M&E industry as a documentary filmmaker and new media producer on projects spanning six continents, exploring topics in human rights, global health, education, and the intersection of religion and politics. His work has screened at domestic and international festivals, public television, universities, and industry events. Kim is also a professor of screen arts at Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA. He holds an MFA in Film and Electronic Media from the School of Communication at American University, where he served as a graduate fellow in the Center for Media & Social Impact funded by the Ford Foundation and collaborated with the MIT Media Lab on their new media literacy project. During Kim’s academic career, he developed and directed a unique undergraduate documentary filmmaking program, received his institution’s highest teaching award, and chaired a department overseeing numerous programs within communication and the visual arts. His student teams won some of the highest awards in the field, such as the Pacemaker Award from the Associated Collegiate Press and a Student Academy Award nomination. At Pepperdine, Kim teaches courses in production, storytelling, and documentary filmmaking. Kim also has an M.S. in Integrated Marketing Communication from Northwestern University, with training from some of the best CMOs, analysts, brand managers, and creative executives in the industry. His training focused on audience engagement analytics, marketing strategy, branding, and content development, ever interested in the space where art and science collides.