Video Journalist | Documentary Filmmaker
Megumi Lim is a video journalist and documentary filmmaker from Singapore, based in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Her short film NIGHT SHIFT - capturing curfew and night shift workers in wartime Kharkiv - marks her first entry into film festivals. It was selected by the Kyiv International Short Film Festival, the Ukrainian Film Festival Berlin, and the Independent Shorts Awards Los Angeles in 2025.
She began her filming career in 2015 covering news as a video journalist at the Reuters bureau in Tokyo. For almost a decade - based in Tokyo and then as a freelancer in Beijing - she reported on major news stories across Asia. Her work has been featured by Reuters, The Washington Post, The New York Times, ZDF, ITV News, The Straits Times, Channel News Asia, and others. She was part of the ZDF team that received the prestigious Hanns Joachim Friedrich's Prize for their reporting of the historic 2019 Hong Kong protests.
She relocated to Ukraine in 2023, and transitioned from news to documentary film.
She has a degree in Oil Painting from Tama Art University, a masters degree in Journalism from Waseda University, and is HEFAT-trained.
She speaks English, Japanese, a little bit of Mandarin, and is now learning Ukrainian.
Her dog Yozhik is a gentle and introverted mixed-breed from Hebei, China.
View her FilmFreeway profile here.