Dahee Kim

Dahee Kim (Seoul, South Korea. 1988) Dahee is a filmmaker and transnational adoptee who grew up in the suburbs of Minneapolis in a white family and community. Filmmaking has been her gateway into exploring the nuances of her experience as a transracial, transnational adoptee. Her first film, Big Happiness, looks at colorblindness in the transracial family system. It premiered at the Austin Film Festival. 


Her work has screened at San Francisco International Film Festival, DOC NYC, Punto de Vista, Atlanta Film Festival, the Minneapolis St Paul International Film Festival and more. She was awarded the 2021 Alison Doener Fund for Women Pioneers in Filmmaking and the Allan Sekula Social Documentary Fund in 2022. Professionally Dahee works as a production sound mixer. She graduated with an MFA film/video from the California Institute of the Arts in 2023.

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