PLAYER AGENCY: Art School Dropouts To Host Ten-Minute Preview During UASE 2023 Panel
Director Joey Min and his new film, Player Agency, will preview the first ten minutes at this year’s edition of the Urban Action Showcase & Expo in New York City. Min and his team will be previewing the clip during their filmmaking panel titled “Indie Action Filmmaking and Operating On A Budget”.
Player Agency is a rarity of its kind in that ninety percent of the film takes place in a virtually animated setting. The film centers on Ken (Kage Yami), a man who falls into depression after losing his job of ten years. He’s cajoled by his college friend into an usual method of gaining his confidence back: a VR-based adventure RPG (role playing game), where he will quest through a realm ruled by the tyrannical “Lich King”, and must battle his demons both internally and virtually to take back his life.
Min’s banner has garnered multiple awards over the years for his work as founding member of independent production banner, Art School Dropouts. Their credits include – but aren’t limited to – webseries “Nerf Assassin,” “My Asian Auntie,” and its feature film sequel, Yes, Auntie!, and action-packed shorts like Lady, Broken and Avatar-inspired fan film The Legend Of Korra: A New Beginning.
The Urban Action Showcase and Expo first launched in 2012, host to annual visits from a bevy of action stars spanning Hong Kong and American martial arts cinema laureates like Fred Williamson, Don “The Dragon” Wilson, Cynthia Rothrock, Robert Samuels, and Taimak Guarriello to name a few; The event’s historical roster also includes The Outlaw Johnny Black star/director Michael Jai White who was on hand in 2019 to receive the honorary mantle of “The Black Dragon” from cinema legend, martial artist and Grandmaster Ron Van Clief.
The eleventh edition of the Urban Action Showcase & Expo kicks off on November 11.
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