Ian Kim is a 16-year-old Korean-American filmmaker, photographer, actor, playwright, and visual artist with a focus in stop-motion animation. He is a current rising junior at the Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles, California, and has worked on 5 award-winning short films. He is also a Scholastic Gold Medalist, two-time award winner at the Cannes Film Festival American Pavilion Emerging Filmmakers Showcase, and 2022 YoungArts Finalist in Photography.