Kim Hoyos (she/her) is a freelance creative, specializing in video production, social content, and digital strategy based in Los Angeles. She’s also a small business owner and the founder of “The Light Leaks”, an online community for women and nonbinary filmmakers. She’s currently part of Meta and Instagram’s Dale Tu program, for Latino content creators.

Passionate about representation in media, Kim strives to create spaces on screen and behind the camera for women, BIPOC folks, and the LGBTQ+ community. She’s explored her creativity by directing, writing, and producing her short films available for online viewing and producing and editing digital videos for brands including mitu, The Mujerista, Aloe App, Adolescent Content, and more.

Kim has always pursued opportunities that allow her to expand on her storytelling skill set whether that be in production, writing, digital strategy, or social media content. With experience across late-night television, social impact, online community building, and video production through positions at NBC, MTV, Greenpoint Pictures, GirlGaze, and others - Kim has a multifaceted background in storytelling.

Because of her work with MTV’s +1 the Vote, she’s a 2019 Shorty Award recipient. Kim’s work for representation in media through The Light Leaks and film production has been noted in the press by People en Espanol, Urban Outfitters, Ms. Magazine, Amy Poehler's Smart Girls, BUST Magazine, and more.

After working in the New York City area throughout college as an intern and for a few years post-grad, she relocated to the Los Angeles area to continue to focus on scripted television, branded and creative video.

In her own independent short film and original television writing work, Kim explores female characters in coming of age stories through a comedy lens.

Kim intends to one day write for television and film and continue to grow the Light Leaks with her team of women and nonbinary content creators.