About

Suzanne Soo Hyun Kim is a Korean-Australian screenwriter, director and producer based between Sydney and Seoul. Working bilingually in Korean and English, she brings a cross-cultural fluency to work spanning narrative film, documentary, commercials and photography. Her visual language is stylised and heightened while remaining grounded in human behaviour, emotional specificity and lived experience.

Suzanne has a deep foundation in documentary filmmaking, shaped by years of creating character-driven portraits, vérité sequences and stories centred on real people and their experiences. Her approach combines an atmospheric cinematic language with sensitive, human-centred interviewing and a particular attention to nuance, psychology and cultural context. Her nonfiction work includes a documentary short commissioned by The Guardian and a series for Apple’s first Australian Behind the Mac campaign.

She was featured in a special edition of Vogue Australia, guest-curated by Baz Luhrmann, as one of the “Best in Show – the new class of Australian female directors to know.” In 2025, she was selected to participate in Platform BUSAN, the Busan International Film Festival’s program for emerging independent filmmakers, and was also selected for Skip Ahead 2026, an initiative from Screen Australia and YouTube Australia supporting the development of distinctive Australian screen voices.

Suzanne is a writer and director on Night Bloomers, commissioned by SBS and Screen Australia through the Digital Originals initiative. The series premiered at SXSW in 2023 before its Australian release on SBS On Demand. She was selected for a Screen Victoria Director’s Attachment on the television series White Fever, where she also worked as a Korean cultural advisor.

Her short film Let The Neon Lights Dance was selected for the 2026 New York Asian Film Festival. She is currently developing her first feature film and writing an action drama series about runaway teenagers set against Seoul’s surveillance landscape, alongside a documentary series exploring traditional Korean recipes preserved and passed between generations through oral tradition, particularly among regional communities. In 2024, she debuted her first solo photography exhibition.

Commercially, Suzanne has directed work for brands and organisations including Apple, Samsung, Hera, Ford, Hyundai, Genesis, Jordan, Nike, P&G, The Guardian and the Sydney Opera House. Her work across Australia and Korea is informed by cultural insight, extensive research and an ability to move naturally between languages, markets and modes of storytelling.