Category: Indie
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The Stunt People Featured in Love Triangle City – Watch Now
In the latest episode of Love Triangle City, filmmaker Quentin realizes that if he wants to shoot an action film, he needs to stop spying on unsuspecting “reality actors” and actually hire some stunt guys, which leads him to The Stunt People. Chelsea Steffensen and Nathan Hoskins jump to the task, and they get together…
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An Introduction to The Action Kickback Movement
If you’re reading this blog, “action fan” doesn’t adequately describe you. You’re an “action junkie.” You like your action scene unprocessed and unrefined, no sugar added, preferably in a powdery form whose purity is demonstrated by its rapid solubility in a drink. When taken by the average film-goer, its potency separates his frontal lobe from…
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Indie Action Weekly Round-Up – Hadouken Edition
The big news this week was the release of Street Fighter: The Devil Within by Thousand Pounds stunt team. This project was funded by Capcom at a budget of $25,000 to promote their latest game Street Fighter x Tekken. Thousand Pounds have made the very best of this budget. So we can officially declare that…
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A long overdue Indie Action Round-up – Leap year edition
Since I’ve put this off for so long, and so much has been happening in the indie world, I thought I’d put some extra effort into this week’s indie action round-up. Tons of great material, none of which should be missed. Our friend Manu Lanzi from the Green Hornet short brings us some Bourne-style, only…
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Top 15 Fight Scenes of 2011 features The Stunt People
Lawson Leong has posted his top 15 fight scenes of 2011, featuring works by The Young Masters http://www.youtube.com/youngmasters Lazy Brown Productions: youtube.com/emanzanares28 Skyward Stunts: youtube.com/TKDJeffrey Vlad Rimburg: youtube.com/vjvlad Art School Dropouts: youtube.com/Artschooldropouts and The Stunt People: youtube.com/stuntpeople The top spot goes to The Young Masters’ Shadow Plant. If you haven’t seen it, do yourself a…
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I talk economizing a shoot at Petaluma Museum – Death Grip Behind the Scenes
Here’s a video shot and edited by Alex Ng where yours truly talks about shot economy and other stuff at the Petaluma Museum while making Death Grip.
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Indie action weekly roundup for week of February 9, 2012
Thought I was gonna miss it, didn’t ya? Here are three more awesome indie action vids from the week. A Short Story of Marriage – If they could turn Ico into a ninja action movie, it’d look like this. Movie-Do is behind the action in this one. Shot on a Red Epic using a heli…
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Thoughts on Disreputable People in the Film Industry
I’m sitting here looking at a pile of signed papers that legally will hand over the rights of Death Grip to a company which I know little about except that the guy in charge is nice in person. Whenever I’ve been screwed in the film world, this is how first impressions always go, because like…
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Indie Action Weekly Round-up for week of February 1, 2012
The second part of the noir series, Those Who Go To Hell – Episode 2 is up and ready for consumption. Enjoy with a glass of Laphroaig. Fall-man Sam Hargrave’s latest demo reel isn’t exactly “indie” but the man’s come a long way since his indie action days, yet he’s keeping the same spirit. Please…
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J. J. (Jordan) Perry on Haywire, stunt business, and filmmaking
JJ Perry has been all over the stunt industry. From doing stunts as Sub Zero in the Mortal Kombat film to fight choreography in Haywire, his credentials speak for themselves. Here are some interviews where he basically reiterates the Action Kickback Model, that audiences today are smarter about martial arts than just 10 years ago…