Abraham Lincoln Lim

Abraham Lim is a Korean American award winning international director, writer and producer. He received his BFA/MFA as a scholarship student at New York University. Over ten years of professional experience in Hollywood and New York, he has worked on programs for National Geographic, ESPN, FOX TV, Fox Searchlight and Sony Pictures. While studying at NYU he directed over 20 music videos for Polygram, Sony, and Jive records. His graduate thesis film FLY got the attention of legendary director Robert Altman, who met him after a Directors Guild screening of the film. Altman asked him to edit his next film "Cookie's Fortune" and later signed on as executive producer for Lim's first feature film "Roads and Bridges". After making two feature films with Asian American casts, positively reviewed in Variety, he grew weary of banging his head against a wall trying to get distribution and turned his attention to working in Asia. Based in Seoul, South Korea, his third feature film "God Is D_ad" won the KOFIC/BFC independent film grant at Busan Film Festival. The film made it's festival debut in 2010 at Cinequest Film Festival. It won Best Feature Film awards at the KOFFLA Korean Los Angeles Film Festival and Phoenix Comic Con. Most recently he directed a children's television show "Magic Carpet" in Singapore, and directed a program for SPIKE TV in Manila featuring MMA star Rampage Jackson. "Where Is Wang Hao", his fourth feature shot across China was completed in 2016. His fifth feature film, a documentary, "Shifting: View From Antarctica" will be completed at the end of 2017.