Charles Lim

Charles Lim was educated in the USA and Europe. He has lived in Europe for 20 years (1973-1993) until he returned to the U.S. in late 1993. He had resided in Austria, Germany, The Netherlands and Italy. He spent 15 years in Rome, Italy, as a journalist, interpreter, photographer, illustrator, film critic, experimental filmmaker, screenwriter and script doctor, and occasional actor. As a journalist, he had worked for Rome-based Daily American, International Courier, Trade, and The European Journal of International Affairs, writing articles on films, live concerts, sports, the economy, international trade and political commentary. He had also travelled extensively all over Europe, the Middle East and Asia as a free-lance research journalist. He was in New York in 1984 for 6 months to represent Trade magazine. Charles Lim had a brief apprenticeship with the late multi-Academy Award-winning Italian director Federico Fellini, whom he befriended and was received kindly by the director in 1976. His brief apprenticeship with Fellini includes such films as Casanova (1976), Prova d'orchestra (Orchestra Rehearsal) (1978), Città delle donne (City of Women) (1980) and La Voce della luna (The Voice of the Moon) (1990). He had also worked as a cameo in American and European films such as Terence Young's Inchon (1980), Marco Ferreri's Storia di ordinaria follia (1981), Brian G. Hutton's High Road to China (1983), Jean-Jacques Beineix's La Lune dans le caniveau (1983), Alessandro di Robilant's Anche lei fumava il sigaro (1985), Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor (1987) and Sergio Citti's Mortacci (1989). He was involved with "Gruppo Contro Cinema" in 1978 as an associate and photographer for the independently produced Italian experimental film Tre fuori e dieci dentro. He had also written and directed an experimental, semi-documentary video in 1984 and an independently financed musical video in 1985. In 1986, he wrote the script Campagna per la campagna for Italy's World Wildlife Fund documentary directed by Marco Kuveiller, and in 1987 wrote the script treatment Padre Jerzy Popieluszko, concerning the murdered Polish priest, for an Amnesty International documentary which was never produced. He had also revised and translated 2 European co-production film scripts Annata di Pregio and Un uomo per Eva in 1993 for Notorious Productions. He has written one unpublished novel and recently just finished another one that has yet to be published. He is working on a third novel. Charles Lim learned screenwriting from the late Irish writer H.A.L. Craig, who wrote such scripts as Fraülein Doktor (1968), Waterloo (1970), Barry Lyndon (1975), Al-Risalah or Mohammed, Messenger of God (1976), and Lion of the Desert (1981). Mr. Craig also co-wrote the novel Airport '77. Mr. Lim has extensive contacts in various international film festivals, especially in Europe, through his personal friend Mr. Guglielmo Biraghi, co-founder of Taormina International Film Festival, director of Venice International Film Festival from 1988 to 1989 and a member of the Chicago International Film Festival's panel of jurors since 1980. Mr. Lim also personally knows Mr. Michael Kutza, founder and artistic director of the Chicago International Film Festival. Since 1984, Charles Lim has also been a free-lance correspondent and film critic for both The Netherlands' Rostrum Haarlem for their periodical publications Speelfilm Encyclopedie, Speelfilm Gids, and Films op Video, and France's Film Video TV Data BV. Mr. Lim speaks 6 languages.

November 14, 1952.

• Guglielmo Biraghi, Personal Friend, Co-founder of Taormina International Film Festival
• Michael Kutza, Personal Acquaintance, Founder and Artistic Director of the Chicago International Film Festival