Kim Ray is an award-winning Writer, Director and Producer based in Los Angeles. She has directed commercials for Fortune 500 clients, developed and written scripted and unscripted projects and Executive Produced and Directed premium documentary television. Her work includes Executive Producing GAGA: FIVE FOOT TWO for Netflix, Directing and Executive Producing Roku's ABOUT FACE, with Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and featuring Kylie Jenner, Huda Kattan and Jen Atkin and Executive Producing HUSTLE IN BROOKLYN for BET, among others.
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As a writer, Kim has focused on science-fiction but has also written action, thrillers and an Oscar-winning comedy-musical. She most recently adapted a short story, written in 1917 by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Susan Glaspell, into a suspenseful, feature-length thriller. She is attached to direct and looks to be in production in 2025. The script earned a rating of an 8 on The Black List, a feat only 5% of scripts reviewed achieve, and was a trending script on the site. NIgel Thomas and Rick Benattar of BT Productions are producing.
Raised as an only child and a Jehovah's Witness in the Metro-Detroit area, Kim attended the College For Creative Studies on a photography scholarship before earning her B.A. in Film from the University of Michigan. While an undergrad, she fronted the band "Lovely" for which she directed her first (and only) music video. She then began her career in New York City, working in film and commercial production and then as a development executive in Film, Drama and Performing Arts at A&E Networks.
Kim holds an MFA in Production/Directing from USC's School of Cinematic Arts where she Co-Wrote and Produced the comedy-musical WEST BANK STORY which premiered at Sundance, won dozens of festivals worldwide and won the Oscar for Best Short Narrative Film. She also wrote and directed THE CONNECTION, an award-winning science-fiction short which was mentored by AVATAR producer Jon Landau (RIP). Kim worked for James Cameron's Lightstorm as a Story Analyst and assisted with research for AVATAR.
As a Film and Television Professor who enjoys helping young filmmakers find their voice, Kim has taught at both the Savannah College of Art and Design and University of Southern California.
In addition to the Oscar, Kim is the recipient of dozens of awards, including the MTV Best Documentary Award for GAGA: FIVE FOOT TWO, placing as a BlueCat Screenwriting Quarterfinalist several times, placing in the Austin Film Festival as a Semifinalist, winning the Mary Pickford Production Scholarship and an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Fellowship.
Kim aims to create socially conscious work and is drawn to science, politics, history, music, art, design and pop-culture. She is an advocate of fostering and adoption. She serves as incoming President of USC's Women Of Cinematic Arts and Directs/Produces interviews for the nonprofit Look What She Did. She's a film nerd, a mom, a dog lover, a jogger, a yogi and someone who's watched every season of the Great British Baking Show and yet still struggles with baking. She left the Jehovah's Witnesses when she was 14 but has never stopped singing her heart out.
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