Isle Child directed by Thomas Percy Kim opened the Boston Asian American Film Festival which is taking place from October 15 – 25, 2026 in Boston, MA, USA.

Isle Child by Thomas Percy Kim – USA, South Korea | 2025 – 91 minutes
When a young Korean-American adoptee discovers a hidden letter revealing his birth mother is terminally ill in Korea, he must choose between maintaining his perfect American life or confronting the painful truth of his past. (BAAFF 2026)

About the director:
Thomas Percy Kim, who grew up in Concord, Massachusetts, is a young, Korean-American writer/director kindled by raw, introspective narratives. His stop-motion short film, TREJUR, screened at venues such as Indyshorts and Busan International before receiving the Harry Winston Brilliant Futures award and YoungArts gold medal. Before attending USC film school, his live-action short, SI, starring Ki Hong Lee (MAZE RUNNER) premiered at LAAPFF before being sold and distributed by HBO Max.

He is a 2022 Sundance Ignite Fellow, 2024 TIFF x CJ Ent. Fellow, 2023 Blacklist Michael Collyer Finalist, 2024 Screencraft Film Fund Winner, 2021 Shorts to Feature Lab Fellow, and a 2021 Diverso Minority Report Fellow, where Dede Gardner (MOONLIGHT) selected and reviewed his dramatic feature, ISLE CHILD, based on his proof-of-concept short, SI. His latest short, BUSAN, 1999, is distributed by Argo, Zen Movies, and won Best Narrative at the SFFilm Festival and BFI Future Film Festival, qualifying it for the 2023 Oscars.

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