THOMAS PERCY KIM
2021 Minority Report Fellow
University of Southern California
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ISLE CHILD
Logline: “Isle Child” is an R-rated drama. When a young Korean-American adoptee from a picture-perfect white suburban family discovers that his birth mother is terminally ill in Korea, he must decide whether to protect himself and preserve the facade of his American life or face the truth of his past and his otherness.
Thomas Percy Kim is a Korean-American writer/director kindled by raw, introspective narratives and poetic imagery. His debut stop-motion short film, TREJUR, has screened at venues such as Heartland (now Indyshorts) and Busan International before receiving the Harry Winston Brilliant Futures award and YoungArts gold medal by the age of 17. Currently at USC’s BFA Film Production program, he is repped at APA as writer/director, and his last project, SI, starring Ki Hong Lee (Maze Runner, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) premiered at the 2020 shorts Oscar-qualifying LAAPFF before being sold and distributed by HBO as part of their APA Visionaries program. He is a 2021 Shorts to Feature Lab Fellow and a 2021 Diverso Minority Report Fellow, where Dede Gardner (Plan B) selected and reviewed his feature based on the proof-of-concept short, SI. Thomas is currently developing the same feature with EP Jim Cummings.