Gennie Rim

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Gennie Rim
Born (1979-05-03) May 3, 1979 (age 45)
Grand Rapids, Michigan
OccupationFilm producer
Years active1998-present
Notable workDear Basketball, Over the Moon

Gennie Rim is an American producer who is best known for producing Academy Award-winning short film, Dear Basketball (2017), [1] which won the Best Animated Short Film at the 90th Academy Awards, [2] and Netflix's animated feature Over the Moon (2020) directed by Glen Keane, which was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 93rd Academy Awards [3] . She has worked at Pixar, Walt Disney Animation Studios, and Netflix. [4]

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Career

In 1998, Rim began her animation career at Wild Brain Studios in San Francisco. She later moved to Pixar, where she worked on films such as The Incredibles, Cars, Ratatouille, and Up . In 2008, she joined Walt Disney Animation Studios.

In 2013, she became a producer with Glen Keane Productions. While there, she produced [5] numerous projects such as Dear Basketball and Over the Moon, as well as Netflix's Emmy Award-winning pre-school series Trash Truck [6] .

In 2021, Rim was named one of Variety’s 10 Producers to Watch [7]

Filmography

YearTitleCreditsFormatNotes
2004 The Incredibles Lighting production assistant and sets production assistantFeature film
2006 Cars Lighting coordinatorFeature film
2007 Ratatouille Animation coordinatorFeature film
2007 Your Friend the Rat 2D animation coordinatorShort film
2008 Bolt Production department managerFeature film
2009 Up Additional production supportFeature film
2012 Paperman Artist ManagerShort film
2014 Duet ProducerShort film
2015NephtaliProducerShort film
2016JuneProducerShort film
2017Lux: Blinding LightProducerShort film
2017 Dear Basketball ProducerShort filmAcademy Award for Best Animated Short Film
2018Age of SailProducerShort film
2019The Witness - Love, Death & Robots ProducerShort filmPrimetime Emmy Award for Animated Short Film [8]
2020A Trash Truck ChristmasExecutive ProducerTV special
2020 - 2021 Trash Truck Executive ProducerTV series
2020 Over the Moon ProducerFeature filmAcademy Award Nominee for Best Animated Feature Film

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