Dai Sil Kim-Gibson
Dai Sil Kim-Gibson is a documentary filmmaker whose films are widely known for advocating the voiceless and humanizing their previously unheard stories. She completed her Ph.D in Religion at Boston University and served as a professor of Religion at Mt. Holyoke. A former federal and state employee, filmmaking is her third and most noteworthy career. Kim-Gibsonís films (America Becoming, Sa-I-Gu, A Forgotten People: The Sakhalin Koreans, Oliviaís Story, Silence Broken: Korean Comfort Women, Wet Sand: Voices from LA, and Social Security for Us) are screened worldwide in colleges and universities and some are sought after as primary resources for scholars and students. Among many rewards, she has received a Rockefeller Fellowship for Silence Broken and a production grant from the MacArthur Foundation for Sa-I-Gu.
