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Abraham Lim is a Korean-American film director, screenwriter and actor. He earned a BFA and an MFA for film at New York University. During his studies, he worked as an editor and director of music videos at Riviera Films, as well as working for National Video Center and Betelgeuse, some of the top editing houses in New York. In 1996, he began work on his first feature film, Roads and Bridges (2000). In 1997 the film that he produced for his MFA thesis, Fly, garnered several awards at NYU's First Run Film Festival for best directing, acting, editing, and cinematography. The film was later invited to the Directors Guild of America screening. Legendary Director Robert Altman saw Fly and invited Lim to Los Angeles to meet. After their meeting at the mixing session of The Gingerbread Man (film) director Robert Altman hired Lim to edit Cookie's Fortune. Lim then went on to partner with Altman again editing Killer App a Fox TV pilot written by Garry Trudeau. Altman signed on as one of the executive producers for Roads and Bridges. In 2002 Lim was part of Fox Searchlight’s Searchlab, a program for emerging directors. Toy, his short film about a Los Angeles sex worker was selected to screen at Sundance Film Festival in 2003. Lim's screenplay The Achievers was a finalist for HBO’s Project Greenlight. In 2005, Lim won a grant from the NAATA media fund, which was to support Asian-American filmmakers. The Achievers is a 2006 film he directed, starring Akie Kotabe, Dave Lee and Samantha Quan. Frustrated with his inability to get distribution for Asian American films, in 2007 Lim went to explore film making in South Korea. In 2010, Lim directed God is D ad, a road movie about young adults going to a comic conference in the late 1980s. The film won best picture at the Korean Film Festival of Los Angeles and Phoenix Fan Fusion formerly Phoenix Comic Con. Currently in 2019, he is navigating the Chinese film market with his latest film.