With over a dozen award-winning shorts and two feature documentaries, her most recent film, “Welcome To Shelbyville,” won a Gucci-Tribeca Documentary Fund grant, was an official selection of the US State Department's American Documentary Showcase, and aired on PBS's Independent Lens.   Kim co-founded the BeCause Foundation to create a series of socially conscious documentaries, directed the documentary feature “I Remember Me,” distributed theatrically by Zeitgeist Films, and associate produced the Academy Award-winning short film “Trevor.”

“Welcome to Shelbyville” chronicles America at a crossroads, through the lens of one rural town in the Bible Belt of Tennessee. A stone’s throw from the birthplace of the KKK, the town grapples with its segregated past, while at the same time navigating the arrival of Latino immigrants and newer Somali refugees, who have come to work in the local chicken plant. Set during the beginnings of an historic new administration, a declining economy and unprecedented demographic shifts, an ensemble cast of colorful, irreverent characters represent life in small town America, at a critical time in our country’s history.