Toronto-based filmmaker Gloria Ui Young Kim has won a lucrative national award from the Women In the Director's Chair program.
Kim is the 2016 recipient of the WIDC Feature Film Award, a cash and in-kind prize valued at $190,000 which is aimed at encouraging more feature films directed by women.
The award includes studio rentals, a camera package, support for picture and audio post-production, closed captioning, insurance, and a grip and lighting equipment package rental.
The Seoul-born Kim has won prizes for previous works including "Rock Garden: Not a Love Story" and "The Auction."
Kim's script, "Debra and Mona" won the 2013 Telefilm New Voices Award.
She has won a spot to develop the project at the WIDC's Story & Leadership program taking place in part at the Whistler Film Festival.
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