Parity Pipeline

Parity Pipeline

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Directed by Christina YR Lim

After failing to blackmail the problematic CEO of her management company, a D-list K-Pop star is publicly canceled and forced to start over in her quaint hometown in Eastern Europe, but as a consuming paranoia continues to haunt her, she discovers she may not have left the limelight after all.

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  • CREDITS

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Synopsis

After failing to blackmail the problematic CEO of their management company, Kpop singers, YURI and LYNN are publically canceled and endures months of severe bullying by the media and fans. Yuri escapes to her hometown in rural Eastern Europe to her terminally-ill father and her resentful brother who abandons them upon her arrival. As Yuri struggles to start anew, the years of public scrutiny and the recent scandal leaves her paranoid and feeling stalked, and even provokes hallucinations. Unable to trust her own suspicions, she investigates the town when the truth unravels: her old management company has been filming her to make her the star of her own reality show. She then receives the news that Lynn has committed suicide, unable to escape her own paranoia and Yuri is pushed to seek revenge on not only the CEO that wrongfully canceled them, but on the industry that continues to exploit her.

Bio

Born in Madrid, and raised in Maryland, Christina YR Lim is a Korean–American writer/director who explores the Asian diaspora through fish-out-of-water, genre-bending stories. Lim began in theatre, working with various companies including the Goodman Theatre, Center Theatre Group, and East West Players. Christina then turned to filmmaking, earning her MFA from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts in directing and screenwriting. Her films have been screened at multiple film festivals including Geena Davis’ Bentonville Film Festival, RiverRun, Cinequest, LA Asian Pacific Film Festival, Catalina Film Festival, and CAAMFest. She co-directed SAMIR, a feature film, funded and distributed by Warner Bros., which premiered at Heartland Int. Film Festival. She has also directed films in Shanghai and Beijing and is an alumnus of Yale’s directing fellowship. As a writer, Lim won SeriesFest's Women’s Writing Competition garnering her a development deal with Kyra Sedgwick's production company, Big Swing Productions. Her scripts have been placed in the Academy Nicholl's Fellowship, the Bluecat Screenplay Competition, and The Script Lab, among others. Her script, GYOPO placed top 50 for The Launch Pad, in the finals for the Wescreenplay Diverse Voices, and was an official selection on The Red List. Recently, Lim was a fellow of the Black List x Women in Film Feature Residency and Cine Qua Non's Storylines lab. Her first feature film as an auteur, B-SIDE: FOR TAYLOR is set to release in 2024.

Awards History

Cine Qua Non Storyline's Lab 2023

EAVE Ties That Bind Co-Production Lab 2023-24

Credits

Producer - Maya Korn