Ty Kim is a film and television director, producer, showrunner and writer based in Los Angeles, California. He earned six Los Angeles Emmys, the National Edward R. Murrow Award, nine Golden Mics, the Associated Press Award for California and other awards. Ty honed his craft of storytelling serving as an associate producer, co-producer and producer for years with Mike Wallace and Ed Bradley at CBS News/60 Minutes where his body of work includes over fifty pieces for the broadcast. Ty specialized in hard news, investigative reporting. His work spans more than two decades in network, cable and local television, film, radio and print. Ty was the first journalist to fly the B-1 Bomber. He uncovered multiple cases of sexual relationships that led to the resignation of the Archbishop of New Mexico. Ty earned his BA from Stanford and his MBA from Harvard Business School where he specialized in entrepreneurial finance, general management and processes and action.

Ty’s latest work is a documentary feature film called “Earl.” about an American composer who died before his time. The composer Earl Kim (1920-1998) grew up in abject poverty. His immigrant Korean parents picked the fields of Dinuba, California. Ty's discovered many parallels between his life and the life of EARL KIM (no relation). Ty studied the cello at a young age, earning him a music scholarship at Stanford. Ty's parents were also Korean immigrants who valued learning and education. He became fascinated with the composer Earl Kim after learning about the aspiring composer's flight over Nagasaki. Ty spent three years negotiating the successful entry of CBS News into North Korea, traveling to Pyongyang for a groundbreaking series of reports.

Ty seeks out stories about people living on the edge of human existence--people who need help and believe in the power of shining a light on their situation. This is the third film about classical music that Ty has directed and produced. The past two films includes interviews with the legendary violinist Itzhak Perlman. For the first time, several of Earl’s recorded interviews will be revealed including audio interviews from 1985 and 1993.

Ty’s previous film was about the cellist Lynn Harrell and his 60-year journey through music. “A Cellist’s Life” includes interviews with Yo-Yo Ma, John Williams, André Previn (his last filmed interview), Itzhak Perlman, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Yefim Bronfman and others. The film was invited to The Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, the Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM), Stanford University, Southern Methodist University and other locations.