---
name: "Kim White"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/kim-white"
fi1m_id: "kim-white"
imdb_id: "nm0925081"
tmdb_id: 8092
roles: ["Cinematographer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-24T20:16:24.379176+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Kim White

## Identity

Kim White

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/kim-white
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** kim-white
- **IMDb ID:** nm0925081
- **TMDB ID:** 8092
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0925081/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/8092

Cinematographer. Born in Georgia, United States.

## Details

- **Work:** Cinematographer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0925081/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/8092

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Cars 3*](https://film.one/film/cars-3.md) (58)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Kim White is a lighting artist and director of photography at Pixar Animation Studios. She joined the studio in 1997, working on set modelling and lighting for *A Bug's Life*, and has contributed to lighting on numerous subsequent features.

Her credits include master lighting artist on *Toy Story 2* (1999) and *Monsters, Inc.* (2001), lighting supervisor on *Ratatouille* (2007), and director of photography – lighting on *Toy Story 3* (2010), *Inside Out* (2015), *Cars 3* (2017) and *Luca* (2021). Earlier in her career she worked at Sierra On-Line on computer games.

White holds a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She was born in Georgia and raised in Lakewood, Colorado.

*Sources: pixar.fandom.com, viewconference.it, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Cars 3* (2017), Fi1m 58, Cinematography, Director of Photography — [page](https://film.one/film/cars-3.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Luca* (2021), Director of Photography
- *Cars 3* (2017), Director of Photography — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/cars-3.md)
- *Inside Out* (2015), Lighting Camera — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/inside-out.md)
- *Toy Story 3* (2010), Lighting Camera — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/toy-story-3.md)
- *Ratatouille* (2007), Lighting Supervisor — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/film/ratatouille.md)
- *Monsters, Inc.* (2001), as Modeling · Master Lighting Artist — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/monsters-inc.md)
- *A Bug's Life* (1998), as Lighting Technician

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/kim-white