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Z-Team Films' DIE FIGHTING Goes On Demand This November!

In what can only be described as one of the most exemplary cases of dilligence, the independent filmmaking team over at the now Los Angeles-based Z-Team Films have now seen the first of their long-awaited efforts come to pass. Their newest feature-length debut, Die Fighting, comes roughly fourteen years after the team first got together in Beijing by way of France, contributing to the growing popularity of online action shorts with notable gems like Duel and Brothers Forever. Co-founding members, martial artists and actors Lohan Buson, and director Fabien Garcia spoke to Film Combat Syndicate a few months ago just as their new film began gaining recognition during Action On Film Festival 2014, evidently winning Best Fight Choreography and earning Buson accolades for Breakout Action Star; Respective links are attributed HERE and HERE where you can read more about their past and future endeavors. Meanwhile, it’s high time their film […]

FROM BEIJING TO Z (Part One): My Interview With Lohan Buson

Lee B. Golden III

The past year has been a pretty scant for me when it comes to interviews between the site and my outside obligations, but I knew that I wanted to talk to people with the summer film festival circuit in full-bloom. Thankfully, through good fortune and patience, I managed to achieve this several times – including twice with Lohan Buson and Fabien Garcia, two of the internet’s biggest trendsetters for the online action niche representing their once Beijing-based action cimema filmmaking and stunt team, Z-Team. I first caught these two in a shortfilm titled Duel a little less than a decade ago. It was one of the slickest and coolest action short pieces I had ever seen, and it was easy to see the potential they would garner in their endeavors as performers. Of course, their potential remained mired by the usual setbacks of independent filmmaking, particularly with their latest Action […]

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3 Strands Of Rope Productions Presents: ASSASSIN: ORIGIN

Lee B. Golden III

Writer, producer, independent filmmaker and actor Calvert David Miles is off to a damn good start this Fall season. Just off the heels of winning Breakout Male Action Star this week at the Action On Film Festival in Monrovia, California, Miles has officially released his new shortfilm, Assassin: Origin. The project marks Miles‘s debut from his indie platform, 3 Strands Of Rope Productions, in association with Big Shoulders Digital Video Productions. The story takes off with Miles in the role of Agent Sky, a conflicted assassin whose troubled pursuit of a normal life is illustrated between two seperate relationships. The plot is relatively simple like many assassin-centered stories, and also switches back and forth between points of drama and action, but it’s all very well balanced. The acting is pretty good with even stronger performances from our female leads, actresses Sari Sanchez and Schoen Smith, and the choreography looks solid […]

Shortfilm Review – Reel Deal Action Presents: EVIL TWIN

Lee B. Golden III

The scene is heating up over in Monrovia, California for the upcoming festivities at this year’s tenth annual Action On Film International Film Festival. As such, many shortfilms and other projects that get made beforehand are held exclusively by their originators until they are finished circulating. That standard was since extended to Germany-based cinematic stunt team, Reel Deal Action, who have currently been busy working on a few feature films this year while circulating their newest action short festival favorite, Evil Twin, directed by Epicman Productions founder Christian Pfeil. Evil Twin centers on Reel Deal member, movie stuntman and actor Cha-Lee Yoon, who finds himself at an impasse with his own brother, played by Phong Giang. Upon entering, Yoon discovers his fellow cohort, bound and bloodied by his own evil twin (both played by Can Aydin), following the successful robbery of two technologically advanced stones that grant their owners the […]