Dai Sil Kim-Gibson Retrospective

We are honored to present the first retrospective of Dai Sil Kim-Gibson, Korean American filmmaker and pioneer…

Born in northern Korea when it was under Japanese colonial rule, Dai Sil Kim-Gibson came to the United States in 1962 to pursue graduate studies. She received her Ph. D. in religion from Boston University, and taught at Mount Holyoke College, which was followed by a career as a federal and state government employee: senior program officer a the National Endowment for the Humanities and director of the media program of the New York State Council on the Arts.

She resigned from the New York State Council on the Arts to pursue a film career in 1988, going on to produce an array of award-winning films including Silence Broken: Korean Comfort Women and Wet Sand: Voices from LA.

Filmography:
Sa-I-Gu: Korean Women’s Perspectives (1993, 36min)
A Forgotten People: The Sakhalin Koreans (1995, 59min)
Silence Broken: Korean Comfort Women (1999, 88min)
Olivia’s Story (1999, 14min), written by Kim-Gibson, directed by Charles Burnett
Wet Sand: Voices from LA (2004, 57min)
Motherland: Cuba, Korea, USA (2006, 41min)