Still in the midst of completing her latest documentary, actress, martial artist and filmmaker Maria Tran (Enter The Dojo, Gaffa, Hong Kong Shogun) is also tacking on a feature-film adaptation of her decorated 2013 action short, Hit Girls, penning the script with screenwriter Elizabeth H. Vu (Mr. Ghost, The Perception). The announcement comes five years since Tran headlined the award-winning short with actress and martial arts star JuJu Chan, which she also directed with film partner and co-helmer Adrian Castro.
Tran took to social media on Monday to break the news posting the following along with a photo:
“| HIT GIRLS |
The joy! When you are in the office and your writers are all collaborating on the same project (in other spaces) and you are just so impatient to see how the story pans out!
It’s been so much fun fleshing this one out.
More than 5 years ago a wrote the short film for this concept, won the 2013 Action on Film International Festival for Female Breakout Award and now I’ve got a team of very talented merry women co-writing this feature length script on this (and me being the novice writer on this team).
“Surround yourself with people who know more than you” – Henry Ford.
Tran’s additional film credits include Vietnamese action thriller Truy Sat, and the Roger Corman-produced Fist Of The Dragon, as well as a raft of online action projects created with Castro including the three-part nostalgia-toned Hong Kong “Girls With Guns” webseries homage, Tiger Cop. Following her recent trekking through Hong Kong, Vietnam and The Philippines Vietnamese/Australian trailblazer is joined by production partners Nancy Trieu and Therese Chen in presenting their latest female-fronted action cinema documentary, Femme Fatales: Seen & Unheard, sometime in 2019.
Take a stab at Hit Girls for yourself in the player below!
