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Gloria Ui Young Kim

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Gloria Ui Young Kim is a Korean Canadian film and television director and screenwriter,[1] most noted as director of the films Queen of the Morning Calm[2] and Left for Dead: The Ashley Reeves Story.[3]

Born in Seoul, South Korea, she moved to Toronto, Ontario in childhood.[4] She studied English literature at the University of Toronto, and worked as a journalist for Maclean's before studying filmmaking at the Canadian Film Centre's Directors Lab in 2008.[5]

Kim made a number of short films, including Partial Selves (2000), Rock Garden: A Love Story (2007), The Auction (2010), Why Do I Dance? (2012) and Flamenco Movie (2015) before winning an award from Women in the Directors Chair in 2016 toward the production of Queen of the Morning Calm.[1] The film went into production in November 2018,[6] and had its theatrical premiere at the 2019 Whistler Film Festival.[5] The film was subsequently screened as part of the 2020 Canadian Film Festival,[2] where it won the award for William F. White Reel Canadian Indie, and Kim won the award for Best Director.[7]

The television movie Left for Dead, produced in Canada by Cineflix, premiered in 2021 on Lifetime.[3] Kim received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Direction in a TV Movie at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022.[8]

She has also directed episodes of the television series It's My Party!, Odd Squad, Coroner, Heartland and Murdoch Mysteries. She received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Direction in a Children's or Youth Program or Series at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020 for It's My Party!.

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