Born in Madrid, and raised in Maryland, Christina YR Lim is a Korean–American writer/director who explores Asian diasporas through fish-out-of-water, genre-bending stories. Lim began in theatre, working with companies like the Goodman Theatre, Center Theatre Group, and East West Players. Christina then turned to filmmaking, earning her MFA from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts in directing and screenwriting.

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As a writer, Lim won SeriesFest's Women’s Writing Competition garnering her a development deal with Kyra Sedgwick's Big Swing Productions. Her feature script, GYOPO was a semifinalist for the Academy Nicholl's Fellowship and was selected for the 2022-23 Black List x Women in Film Feature Residency. It was recently selected for Wscripted's Cannes Screenplay List (2024) where it was presented at the Producers’ Network at Cannes. Her latest script, ICON was selected for EAVE's Ties That Bind, participating in TCCF in Taipei and the Far East Film Market in Udine, Italy. It was also a selection of Cine Qua Non's Storylines lab and the Stowe x Sidewalk Story Lab. ​​

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Lim's films have been screened and awarded at multiple film festivals including Bentonville, RiverRun, Cinequest, LA Asian Pacific Film Festival, Catalina Film Festival, and CAAMFest. She co-directed SAMIR, a feature film, funded and distributed by Warner Bros., which premiered at Heartland Int. Film Festival. She has also directed films in Shanghai and Beijing and is an alumnus of Yale’s directing lab and Reykjavík International Film Festival’s Talent Lab.​

 

Lim's first feature film as an auteur, B-SIDE: FOR TAYLOR was distributed by Buffalo 8 and EST Studios and released in May 2024. Most recently, she filmed a proof-of-concept for her second feature, GYOPO as a recipient of The Black List x GM Incubator fund and Panavision’s New Filmmaker Grant. She also recently received the Djerassi Artist Residency (2025) and the prestigious Seriesfest x Shondaland Directing Mentorship (2025)