KANG MIN KIM, an LA-based multiple award winning Korean filmmaker and designer who holds both a BFA and MFA from Calarts’s Experimental Animation program.
He is a highly creative and multitalented stop motion artist with a strong background in stop motion and motion graphics and his work combines handcrafted media with designed backgrounds. He has been working on trilogy project (stop motion film) based on his memories.
His films have screened internationally at several festivals including Sundance, Annecy, Ottawa, Zagreb, Hiroshima, AFI, SXSW and more. The most recent film, KKUM, won the grand prize for independent short and the public prize at the Ottawa International Animation Festival, marking just the third time in the 44 editions of the OIAF that the same short film has won both prizes.