Frank Jun Kim
Co-owner at Lightfoot Creative Media, LLC
Actor, Director and Screenwriter
Austin, Texas
February 2021
6 days ago
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About Frank
I was born in Los Angeles, CA in 1978 – the same day that a computer programmer named Fred Newman set the world record for most consecutive basketball free throws made while blindfolded (88 free throws to be exact). My parents, immigrants from Korea, moved to Houston, TX when I was but a year old. These days I call Austin my home.
My experiences as a Korean-American boy raised in mostly white communities deeply influence me as a writer and a filmmaker. I'm perhaps a bit too obsessed with stories of people who live in strange places during unsettled times, people who have to overcome physical and mental hardship, and stories about what it means to live a life where inspiration and fulfillment are hard-won prizes in places that actively test one's capacity to achieve them.
I also think martial arts action is pretty freakin' dope.
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The West Moon Chronicle Budget: $1M - $5M | Sci-fi ⋄ Fantasy Shortly after moving to a small town in the pine forests of east Texas, a Korean immigrant and his grandson suffer a terrible family tragedy and must grapple with the aftermath – all while dealing with a supernatural threat that emerges from the haunted woods near their home.
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Wendigo Budget: $5M - $10M | Horror ⋄ Action FBI agent Henry Pham goes undercover in a criminal syndicate and discovers another undercover agent already there -- only this one is a shapeshifting, flesh-eating Agent of Terror! Trapped in the gang's fortress in the Oklahoma wilderness, and aided only by a single Native-American police sniper, Henry must avoid becoming the next meal of this creature of many faces... without blowing his own cover.
Awards
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2nd place in the Script2Comic Screenplay Competition
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2nd Rounder at the Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition
(2020)
Education
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ScreenwritingU
(2012-2022)
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