K-Boyz

Jean Shim-Min

Director/Screenwriter

Emmy award winner Jean Shim started her career in television and directed television promos, feature trailers, and commercials. In 1997, she teamed up with New York based Telezign to launch their west coast office. As head Creative Director, a few of Shim’s credits include launching and directing image campaigns for the Sci-Fi Channel US/UK, a network launch for Samsung/Korea, and main titles for Rysher Entertainment and Buena Vista Television. Shim also re-launched The Learning Channel by conceptualizing, directing, and producing all their on and off-air commercials. In 1999, she started her own production company, Shim Films Inc., where she oversaw a staff of designers/directors and producers in Los Angeles and London. Current clients include ABC Inc., Disney, King World, 20th Century Fox, Hollywood Squares, Bloomberg Television, Jeopardy!, Wheel of Fortune, and A&E Network. With their focus now on producing independent film, Shim is gearing up for her directorial debut.

Martina Nagel

Screenwriter

Martina Nagel, a highly qualified script analyst, has worked for the past ten years with A-list Hollywood writers, producers, and directors and top European novelists and scriptwriters including James V. Hart, Iain Smith, Samuel Hadid, and Oscar nominees Michael Radford, Hugh Hudson, and Stewart Stern. More recently, she has written and co-directed two documentary series for the BBC and is the writer of feature film scripts Berlin Wall and Victim of My Talent, a political thriller based on the life of Leni Riefenstahl. In 2003, she won awards at the Berlin Film Festival and the London Film Festival for Black Mark, a short film she wrote and directed. In May 2004, she finished shooting $12 million feature film Walk His Trail, with Bearing Fruit Productions and just finished shooting Mike Figgis’s upcoming film due out in 2006.

Eric Kim

Producer

After graduating from The University of Chicago, Eric Kim became the first Korean American agent in Hollywood and worked for five years at a major Hollywood
talent and literary agency. Kim then formed EK Management to further his client’s growing needs. Under his guidance Kim’s clients have gotten projects at Disney, Paramount, Columbia, MGM, New Line Cinema, Nel Moritz’s Original Film, Jodie Foster’s Egg Pictures, Robert Zemeckis’ ImageMovers, Wind Dancer Films, Wolfgang Petersen’s Radiant Productions, and Radar Pictures. More recently, Lim produced independent comedy feature Going Greek. In conjunction with Maverick Films, he’s attached to produce Forsaken Seoul and is currently in pre-production on Chris Chan Lee’s Undoing, which was a Tribeca All Access project in 2004.

Precy Betiong

Producer

Precy Betiong is a producer for Shim Films and essential in overseeing production. With seven years of production experience, Precy is extensively involved in overseeing pre-production budgets and crew contracts. She has been in over thirty independent films, including Suicide Kings, Power Ranger, Going Greek, The Final Temptation, Dancing in September, and Dirty.

Grace Oh

Screenwriter