As a two-time immigrant, Christina YR Lim is a writer/director who explores fish-out-of-water, genre-bending stories often with an overachieving AAPI female at the center. 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 in directing and screenwriting from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts.​

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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, WOLFIE (fka GYOPO) was selected for the Black List x Women in Film Feature Residency and for Wscripted's Cannes Screenplay List where it was presented at the Producers’ Network at Cannes. Her thriller script, ICON was selected for EAVE's Ties That Bind, Cine Qua Non's Storylines lab and the Stowe x Sidewalk Story Lab. ​​

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Lim has been screened/awarded at multiple film festivals, including Bentonville, Cinequest, LA Asian Pacific Film Festival, Catalina Film Festival, and CAAMFest. She has also directed films in Shanghai and Beijing and is an alumnus of the Djerassi Artist Residency, Yale’s directing lab and Reykjavík International Film Festival’s Talent Lab.​

 

Lim's first feature, B-SIDE: FOR TAYLOR was distributed by Buffalo 8 and EST Studios and released in 2024. She filmed a proof-of-concept for her second feature, WOLFIE (fka GYOPO) as a recipient of The Black List x GM Incubator fund and Panavision’s New Filmmaker Grant. Most recently, she received the Yaddo Artist Residency, Seriesfest x Shondaland Directing Mentorship, and the Starz x AWD Creative Leadership Lab for TV directing.