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Shorts Watch: Trailers For LOVE & WAR, TACO TUESDAY, And NIGHT SHIFT

There’s a trio of shorts currently heeding my attention in the past week and I have some promo assets available for all three!… First up is the kind of action romance romp you might expect in Love & War, directed by Amy Johnston who stars along with Seth Allyn Austin. Here, the two play lonely assassins who find each other on a dating app, and on the run from the hitmen and women hired to kill them both. The project was written by Sean Crayne who recently unveiled the first official poster for his latest directing effort, Pay Homage, which also stars Johnston. The second comes from Adante Watts with a project I literally stumbled upon via social media last week. For this, we get Taco Tuesday which tells of a suburban housewife who embarks on a dangerous mission to rescue her husband from captivity in time for their dinner […]

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THE ORDER Signals A New Breed Of Ninja In The Official Teaser

The 33rd edition of the Pan African Film + Arts Festival is fast approaching, and that means tickets are already on sale via their official website. The same goes for their 2025 programme which is host to over 200 films across the African Diaspora, including eighty-minute conceptual martial arts thriller, The Order, from directing duo Najah Elessie, and Jonathon Jacobs. After being orphaned, Amari and Aissa are raised by a secret society called The Order, where they are trained as elite assassins by the mysterious Mama Zee. Tasked with eliminating a notorious human trafficker, Chipasha Luchembe, their mission takes a personal turn when Aissa learns he is responsible for her parents’ deaths—a secret Mama Zee kept from her. Consumed by vengeance, Amari and Aissa’s differing approaches threaten their bond as they uncover shocking truths that could destroy everything they thought they knew about Mama Zee and themselves. In a world […]

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KILLER 11: ‘Haste’ Team  Developing Hitman-On-Hitman Action Short

Award-winning indie director Aeddan Sussex is moving ahead with shortfilm, Killer 11, I can report as of Monday. Sussex is reteaming with actor and martial artist Jon Alagoa and a number of others as the team readies a crowdfuding campaign upon finalizing a budget and locations. Alagoa, who previously collaborated with Sussex on their 2023 project, Haste as writer and choreographer, will play the lead role of a hitman looking to climb up the ranks by going after his next target, “Killer 10”. Killer 11 also brings aboard Shinji Ishigaki, who previously worked with Sussex on 2018 kung fu comedy, Chopsticks!!, and Thomas Smart, who also collaborated with Alagoa on their earlier Kiwami webseries shorts. I’m told the project is described as dark in tone with a touch of absurdist comedy in a few areas, coupled primarily with swordplay action and some hand-to-hand between the performers. The short will also […]

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