Christopher Hwisu Kim

Filmmaker & Writer

Winner of The Black List’s Cassian Elwes Screenwriting Fellow 2023. Read about it in Deadline here.

My screenplay E.S.L. is what won me that fellowship. It’s a Korean American horror story. Think The Farewell meets The Exorcist.

Here’s a snippet of one of the reviews on The Black List.

This is a piece I wrote for The New Yorker with illustrations by the immensely talented Suerynn Lee. It’s about how my daughter got her Korean name.