SXSW Preview: An Exclusive Clip from ‘Made in China’

Posted by Neil Miller (neil@filmschoolrejects.com) on March 10, 2009

As you’ve probably already figured, we are steaming our way toward another awesome year of coverage of the South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival. And as part of that coverage, we have been doing our best to preview some of the films that we are most interested in from this year’s selection. One such film is the Narrative Competition entry Made in China, from rookie director Judi Krant. It tells the story of Johnson (Jackson Kuehn), a self-styled novelty inventor from a small town in East Texas, who is determined to bring his big idea – “a humorous domestic hygiene product” – to the world. Johnson’s journey takes him to the Mecca of the novelty world: China, where anything is possible and everything has its price. Lost in the backstreets of Shanghai, Johnson discovers that it takes more than a million dollar idea to make it to the big time.

To celebrate the film’s debut at SXSW, we’ve received an exclusive clip from the film that shows Johnson explaining the story behind the Ant Farm. Check it out below. And also check out the screening times for Judi Krant’s Made in China at the bottom of the page. For more awesome SXSW coverage, keep it locked on our SXSW ‘09 homepage.

Now that SXSW is over, we’ve been asked to remove the clip. We will however, be following the film as it makes its way toward a real release.

Screenings:

Premiere – Sunday, March 15th at 11:00am – Alamo Ritz 1

2nd Public Screening – Monday, March 16th at 11:30am – Alamo Lamar 2

3rd Public Screening – Thursday, March 19th at 6:00pm – Alamo Ritz 2

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