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The SXSW Film Festival, which gets underway on March 11th, will feature the world premiere of Karaoke Crazies in its ‘Visions’ lineup. The festival will also be showing KIM Kang-min’s short Deer Flower in ‘Animated Shorts’.

 

The second film from director KIM Sang-chan, who previously made the comedy-drama Highway Star in 2007, with CHA Tae-hyun, Karaoke Crazies features LEE Mun-sik (Mapado: Island of Fortunes, 2005) as the owner of a secluded karaoke bar who hires a strange young girl as a helper in order to drum up some much-needed business, played by BAE So-eun (Doctor, 2013). Though always in a tracksuit and playing video games, she soon becomes a hit with the clients and the owner hires another helper, but all the while, a serial killer circles around them. The film is repped internationally by 9ers Entertainment and is part of their lineup at the European Film Market.

 

Deer Flower, a stop motion and 3D printed film about a student and his parents, is the third short by KIM Kang-min, who previously made Deux Regards (2009) and 38-39°C, which won the award for Best Animated Short at the San Diego Asian Film Festival in 2012.

 

Last year, the only Korean film at SXSW was SHIN Yeon-shick’s The Avian Kind, in the ‘SXGlobal’ section.