Skylar Kim is an award-winning filmmaker, producer, and writer whose work bridges the U.S. and South Korea. Her most recent project, Dearborn, a 30-minute TV pilot she directed, earned the Audience Award and a Jury Nomination at the National Film Festival for Talented Youth (NFFTY). The project was one of only two at NYU to receive $10,000 in production funding and was fiscally sponsored by the Arab Film and Media Institute (AFMI). Her films have screened at SeriesFest, Big Apple Film Festival, and other festivals, while her screenplays have been recognized as finalists at the Los Angeles Asian Film Awards, Brown University’s Ivy Film Festival, and Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival. As a producer, her projects have received the HEAR US Award and the NYU Tisch Student Producers Grant. Skylar studied Film & Television at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she minored in American Literature and Entertainment Business. She has held roles in film and television development and festival programming, including as a development intern at Darren Aronofsky’s Protozoa Pictures, a historical research intern on the Apple TV+ series Pachinko (Season 2) and The White Darkness, and a programming intern for the Oscar-qualifying Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival.