Category: Indie
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New Demo Reel for Alvin Hsing, supporting cast of Death Grip
Alvin Hsing joined the cast of Death Grip after having worked with us on Detective Story and Ness. Here’s his latest stunt/action reel, with plenty of spills you may not have seen from the Stunt People realm:
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The Stunt People – 11 Years Old Today
This date of January 15 in 2001, Chelsea Steffensen, Ben Z. Brown, and I set out on a long, difficult quest to make martial art action films that could some day compete with big-budget Hollywood blockbusters. Here we are, 11 years later, still poor and broke, but dammit, we’re sticking to it. With films like…
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Indie Action Weekly Roundup for Week of January 12, 2012
Here’s a badass old-school kung fu fight scene from Brendon Huor and Andy Le, with Manny Manzanares behind the scenes. Ryan Franklin gives us the videogame-esque Holiday of the Dragon 2: Bruce Leeroy has cut ties with Boss Yates and lives in peace. However, Boss Yates returns to take revenge. Things get complicated when an…
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Action Kickback site up and running
I’ve launched a new website for the Action Kickback movement to bring attention to the independent action teams that have sprung up over the past decade. They are, in my opinion, giving high-budget studio action films a run for their money. But as independent action filmmakers, we’re up against huge odds. Hollywood spends millions of…
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Indie Action Weekly Roundup – Noir Style – Week of Jan 4, 2012
Lots of juicy stuff this week with a pretty dark vibe. The big one is a feature-film release by Leeroy Nguyen called Silverback. It’s unsuitable for viewers under 17, which means it’s good. Leeroy’s known for his Flashpoint-style mix of boxing and grappling with a noir feel. His stuff is always solid. Hats off to…
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Classic action films aren’t always brilliant
Some days, you feel like the stuff you’ve produced is utter crap. Maybe it’s a comment someone made, or a bad review, or something unrelated like the weather. So if you’re like me and your genre is action, you owe it to yourself to watch an action classic during these times. You’ll find they made…
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Indie Action Roundup for the week of December 28, 2011
The Young Masters have a teaser up for their latest film SWAG , showing that the two brothers have a couple new members on their team. Anyone familiar with YM’s work knows that Hideyoshi and Fukuyoshi have an on-screen fighting chemistry that’s hard to beat, so we’ll have to wait and see how the new…
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Your film’s title and why you shouldn’t worry about it
After changing Rise And Fail‘s title to Death Grip there was a sharp divide in the small indie action world. Half were relieved, half liked the old title. Action fans seemed to be okay with “Death Grip”, but non-action folks kept thinking we were making either a comedy or some slasher flick. In any group…
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Indie Action Weekly Roundup for December 22
The big buzz this week surrounded Jedis vs. Ninjas, a Team 2x take on the light saber duel. Next up is a first-person fight scene with Vi-Dan Tran of Team Bay. With the new lightweight Go Pro cameras coming out, and the increasingly popular first-person shooter video game genre, expect to see more of this…
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Weekly Indie Round-up for December 14
EMC Stunts is involved in a new project called Project Purgatory Beijing. Lots of gunplay, zombies, and fightin’. Ulrik of flatCOIN has been posting his Beat Em Up shorts, which can be seen at the SP forum on this thread. Here’s the third one And Daniel Johansson has been working on his micro-budget Western film…