Abraham Lim
Abraham Lincoln Lim[1] is an American film director, actor, screenwriter, and editor.
Abraham Lim | |
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| Education | New York University (BFA, MFA) |
| Occupation | Film director and screenwriter |
Career
Lim earned a BFA and an MFA in film from the New York University Tisch School of the Arts. During his studies, he worked as an editor and director of music videos at Riviera Films, as well as working for National Video Center and Betelgeuse, some of the top editing houses in New York.
In 1997 the film he produced for his MFA thesis, Fly, garnered several awards at NYU's First Run Film Festival for best directing, acting, editing, and cinematography. The film was later invited to the Directors Guild of America screening. Director Robert Altman saw Fly and invited Lim to Los Angeles to meet. After their meeting at the mixing session of The Gingerbread Man, Altman hired Lim to edit Cookie's Fortune. Lim then went on to partner with Altman by editing Killer App, a Fox TV pilot written by Garry Trudeau.
Lim made his directorial, writing, and acting debut with the feature film Roads and Bridges (2000) after six years of production. It centers on a friendship between a Chinese man and a Black man in Kansas, inspired by Lim's experience with a road crew in his youth. Altman was one of the executive producers.[1][2]
In 2002, Lim was part of Fox Searchlight’s Searchlab, a program for emerging directors. Toy, his short film about a Los Angeles sex worker, was selected to screen at Sundance Film Festival in 2003. Lim's screenplay The Achievers was a finalist for HBO’s Project Greenlight. The Achievers is a 2006 film he directed, starring Akie Kotabe, Dave Lee and Samantha Quan. In 2005, Lim won a grant from the NAATA media fund, which was founded to support Asian-American filmmakers.[3]
Frustrated with his inability to get distribution for Asian American films, in 2007 Lim went to explore filmmaking in South Korea. In 2010, Lim directed God is D ad, a road movie about young adults going to a comic conference in the late 1980s. The film won best picture at the Korean Film Festival of Los Angeles and Phoenix Fan Fusion (formerly Phoenix Comic Con). In 2019, he tried to market his latest film to the Chinese film market.
Personal life
Lim's parents immigrated to the United States from Korea in the 1950s. He grew up in Overland Park, Kansas in the 1970s.[1]
Filmography
- Shifting: Journey through Antarctica (2019) - Director, producer, screenplay, director of photography, editor
- God is D ad (2010) - Director, screenplay, editor
- The Achievers (2006) - Director, producer, screenplay, director of photography, editor
- Iron Palm (2004) - Editor
- Toy (2003) - Director, producer, screenplay, director of photography, editor
- Roads and Bridges (2000) - Director, executive producer, producer, casting, screenplay, editor, production designer
- More Dogs than Bones (2000) - Editor
- Killer App (1999) - Editor
- Cookie's Fortune (1998) - Editor
- Hyper Conscious (1997) - Editor
- Props Over Here (1994) - Director, editor
- Funky Child (1993) - Director, editor
- That's What Love Can Do (1993) - Director, editor
References
- Jepsen, Cara (April 19, 2001). "On Film: a raw look at racism turn heads--away". Chicago Reader. Retrieved 2021-02-02.
- Shen, Ted (April 19, 2001). "Roads and Bridges". Chicago Reader. Retrieved 2021-02-02.
- "Abraham Lim". tfiny.org. Tribeca Film Institute. Retrieved 19 October 2018.
External links
- Abraham Lim at IMDb