Grad Film MFA Candidate and AnnaRose King Award recipient Sin Young Kim was recently selected for the 2026 CJ & TIFF K-Story Fund with her debut feature screenplay, BETTER NOT. Presented by the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), CJ Cultural Foundation, and KOFIC, the prestigious development program supports emerging Korean and Korean American filmmakers through mentorship, industry guidance, and feature development. Kim is one of eight filmmakers selected for the 2026 cohort.
Sin Young Kim is a Korean American writer and director whose work blends absurdist humor, surrealism, and horror to explore identity, labor, family, and the invisible systems that shape everyday life. Her short film WORLD received the Sara Driver Production Award, and EGG received the 2024 – 2025 AnnaRose King Award. She is currently developing her debut feature, BETTER NOT, through the 2026 CJ & TIFF K-Story Fund.
Sin Young Kim is an AnnaRose King Production Award Recipient for her film EGG, a surreal workplace satire about the pressures women face to optimize both their careers and their fertility. Set in a near-future corporate world where egg freezing is treated as another employee benefit, the film follows an exhausted office worker whose decision to preserve her future slowly disconnects her from the present. Grad Film alum Ella Gibney is the Director of Photography and MFA candidates Raja Khuri, Sarvin Shakib, and Anooya Swamy are Producers for EGG.