Freerunner Ben "Jenx" Jenkin Gets The Run Of His Life In The New Shortfilm Trailer For JUMPSTART

In case the world still hasn’t taken notice, there is an area of the athletic world that aspires to share its community through film and finally make the transition to much bigger feature-length vehicles unlike much of what is seen in Hollywood. For five year freerunning veteran and independent filmmaker, co-writer/producer Robbie Corbett, similar sentiments could not be more clearer for his latest crowdfunded directorial shortfilm debut, JumpStart.

A production of Balls 2 The Wall & PMV Entertainment, JumpStart looks like it has all the trimmings of a great piece of indie film with suspense, espionage, action and screenfighting. Most importantly, it bares mentioning with Parkour as its centerpiece, courtesy of Corbett‘s longtime friend and English freerunning expert Ben “Jenx” Jenkin, who moved to Los Angeles in November of 2012 in the pursuit of a career in entertainment, prior to ultimately landing in Corbett‘s project as the lead.

Once JumpStart is completed, Corbett still has other duties to attend to, helping expand teachers’ certification for USA Pakour, his own branch of World Freerunning Parkour Federation. In the meantime though, with parkour culture not fading away anytime soon, Corbett is on a mission to spread the gospel of movement. And with JumpStart on its way, this likely won’t be the last we hear from him.

JumpStart will be airing this month exclusively on the Flow channel in the embed below, so be sure to subscribe. Also starring are actors Caine Sinclair, Solomon Brende, Tamiko Brownlee, John Hennigan, Nate Stalinski, and Sean Nobles.

The film was also produced by Timothy Sheiff, Robbie Corbett, Rob Gordon and co-writer Jason Sweat (Chrono Shock: Lost Angels).

SYNOPSIS:

JumpStart is an action-adventure short film that revolves around Kid (Ben Jenkin). Highly skilled and fresh out of the academy, Kid is vying for recruitment by a major firm in the business of contract killing. With no actual field experience on his resume, he is offered an unofficial, covert JumpStart assignment from a Chief superior (Tamiko Brownlee). Kid is tasked with intercepting a stolen flash drive and “retiring” a rogue agent. What starts as routine, quickly unravels into something far more dangerous.