PLAYER AGENCY: Watch The First Episode Of The Webseries Cut To Joey Min’s VR-Animated Action Adventure
The webseries is directed by Joey Min.
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PLAYER AGENCY: ASDO’s New Rec Room Action Adventure Gets An Extended Story Trailer
The film is now available at the group’s Patreon.
PLAYER AGENCY Review: Conquering Life Amid Virtual Conquest
The webserial sophomore feature is directed by Joey Min who stars along with lead actor Kage Yami, Angela Jordan, and Stephanie Pham.
PLAYER AGENCY Gets A Poster For A Very Different Kind Of Film
PLAYER AGENCY arrives this summer. Follow Art School Dropouts via their Discord!
PLAYER AGENCY: Teaser Trailer Revealed For Art School Dropouts VR Hybrid Indie Action Adventure
Coming in Summer 2025 from Art School Dropouts!
PRÓLOGO: Watch Felix Cortés Vanquish Evil In ASDO’S New Dark Shortfilm Thriller
A proof-of-concept for a bigger projecy in the making, Felix Cortés stars in the new supernatural action short directed by Joey Min.
PRÓLOGO: Felix Cortés Clashes With Deadly Occult Zealots In The Official Shortfilm Trailer
Expect more from Joey Min in 2025!
PLAYER AGENCY: Director Joey Min Talks Filming His Second Feature In Virtual Reality
The movie makes its free online via the Art School Dropouts YouTube channel this Summer with plans in-development to screen for audiences at the 13th Urban Action Showcase in October.
FLESHBOUND HOLLOW And GOING VIRAL: Enjoy These Two Cool And New Action Shorts Now Online
Enjoy these new shortfilms from some of our favorite creators!
TAKEOUT TAKEDOWN!: Deliveryman José Manuel Gets Handed A Fistful In The New ASDO Action Comedy
This year saw filmmaker Joey Min and his team at Art School Dropouts make their return to the Urban Action Showcase presenting their latest indie action labor, Takeout Takedown! with actor José Manuel. The short, about a haphazard food delivery to a secret cockfighting ring, won several Bests for its presentation, including Best TV/New Media and Best Action Sequence, and is now playing online via their YouTube channel for the viewing public. To be clear, no actual chickens were harmed during the twelve-day period of this shoot. No, I wasn’t there since I live further East of the Hudson River, but I know a plush chicken toy when I see one. Enjoy the action and laughs below, as well as the behind-the-scenes of it all in an extended ASDO featurette beneath!
GUNSLINGER MARY Goes Vertical In The New Gun-Toting Noir Short From ASDO
When duty and internal politics collide, a cop on the edge takes action into her own hands. A town plagued by scum of the underworld; an ugly, unsettling vengeance, through bullets and blood, aims to cleanse it all. This one’s a different change of pace, and a challenging venture to see if indie director Joey Min’s action directing chops can fit the mold in a vertical framework. It’s the latest from his banner at Art School Dropouts and it’s called Gunslinger Mary, with @ajkick101 herself Angela Jordan, and performances by Min along with Victor Chong, Andy To, and Hector Soria, coupled with an extra serving of Frank Miller fandom for the graphic novel-style noir appeal. Enjoy!
The New Slugfest, CRAZY, From The Mind Of Hector Soria, Delivers The Brutality
Actor and Action Designer, Hectoria Soria, recently teamed up with indy action film heavy hitters, Art School Drop Outs, to deliver CRAZY, a new short film that sees Soria brawl it out with actor and stuntman, Victor Chong. According to Art School Dropout’s YouTube, this was a quick, 6-hour production that was dreamed up “from out of nowhere” by Soria. The final result is a bone-crunching one-on-one that tells a familiar – yet classic – story. Check it out below!
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 […]
ASDO Throws Down, Kigurumi Style!
If you were to walk up and tell me that the future of action cinema is a guy somewhere in New Jersey getting together with his friends and doing martial arts shortfilms donning Kigurumi onesies, don’t be surprised if I shrug with approval. Joey Min has been on my radar since I discovered him for myself collabing with the likes of Fernando Jay Huerto and Jon Truei over the years with Min’s Art School Dropouts indie label in full tilt as an ambitious, self-nurturing and ever-growing wheelhouse of creativity with a keenness on kung fu cinema and comedy, Min can go fight a ham sandwich for all I care. I’m all in, and this latest video from the ASDO was cool. Enjoy!
PLAYER AGENCY: Team Behind Indie Kung Fu Comedy ‘Yes, Auntie!’ Announces VR-Animated Sophomore Feature [EXCLUSIVE]
FCSyndicate can share the latest official title logo for Player Agency, a new independent VR-animated action adventure from director Joey Min. The project, which marks the latest feature-length in-house effort from Min through his Art School Dropouts banner, has been in the works since early 2021 and is currently at the halfway point ahead of its hopeful Spring 2023 release. Actor Kage Yami will star in the role of Ken, who, after falling into depression from losing his job of ten years, is 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. The film is unique in that roughly over ninety percent of it is being shot in virtual reality. Player […]
THE 44TH CHAMBER OF SHAOLIN: Take A Behind The Scenes Look At Jon Truei’s Latest Shortfilm
Originally published June 17: Secondary Education helmer Jon Truei’s cast and crew screening of his latest kung fu comedy short, The 44th Chamber Of Shaolin here in New York City was a blast to attend, although what made it even more heartfelt was just simply getting to see friends again, which is a blessing considering we all live miles, states and rivers apart from one another. Effectively, the screening event was ultimately where I got to reunite with friends Truei, actress and stunt performer Angela Jordan and Art School Dropouts’ Joey Min, as well as Willie “Bam” Johnson and Robert Samuels among those who attended the screening and the afterparty, and you’re wholly invited to catch up on the events of last April with coverage by clicking here. The project is still due for a feature adaptation which is a long ways from completion as the wheels are only just […]
BUT FOR ME, IT WAS TUESDAY!: A Night Of Indie Kung Fu Fanfare At The Angelika
I think at least one other important lesson I must always remember is that I don’t get out enough. It’s true. I’ve lived in New York City my whole life and I’ve never explored it enough to know my bearings when I venture out anywhere other than my usual familiar places when I do end up having to take the subway. The same goes for when I arrived at the Angelika Film Center for the second time since catching Snowpiercer years earlier and crossing paths with actor Gabriel Byrne as he was crossing the street. He had company at the time and so, yeah, nah, I didn’t intrude. I’ll also add that sometimes, JUST sometimes, Google Maps can be shit. So leave it to me to find myself walking past the movie theater twice and nearly turning the wrong damn corner. It didn’t help that there were a few exterior […]
PAYBACK: ASDO Pays It Forward With New Stills And Short Promo For Its Latest Thriller
https://www.instagram.com/p/CWlau1QpwY_/?utm_medium=copy_link Art School Dropouts is currently promoting their latest action short, Payback, and they’ve shared a small handful of stills for you to check out below, along with a quick promo above which we’ve uploaded to our Instagram. Visitors and fans of the Cherry Hill-based indie film group can visit their official website to learn more on how to donate via Fractured Atlas and Patreon for exclusive members-only perks, including early screenings of their work, and insider news via their Discord portal.
ASDO’s NERF ASSASSIN: THE DUEL Pits Creators Against One Another In A Ballet Of Nerf Darts And Martial Arts
If you’re following Art School Dropouts as members of their Discord community or as Patreon donors, chances are you’re privy to the exciting and revealing behind-the-scenes adventures and exploits of the New Jersey-based indie Asian digital media firm shepherded by filmmakers Joey Min and Stephanie Pham. It also means you’re entitled to some really cool film content, largely of the action comedy variety, and if you’re just tuning in, you needn’t look further than their latest shortfilm, Nerf Assassin: The Duel. Clocked in at fifteen minutes, the full short marks the third and latest chapter of the group’s Nerf Assassin websaga which began in 2017. Steph, an online content creator, is always finding ways to find funding to create webseries…and since winning $5,000 prize from a previous Nerf war tournament, she decides to enter her and her partner, Joey, again this year. Unfortunately, Joey wants to take a long deserved […]
BROKEN: Angela Jordan And Amanda Cass Duel In The Newest ASDO Shortfilm Thriller
I can’t remember how many times I’ve opined with independent filmmaker and creator Joey Min about teaming up with other performers located in the northeast. This especially involves the prospects of his latest pairing with stunt performers Angela Jordan (@ajkick101) and Amanda Cass (@kickitlikecass), as per the case for Min’s latest shortform contribution, Broken, which I promise is anything but. I actually got to check this out upon visiting Min at a friend-of-a-friend’s house where he was working on a project, and I’m excited to see how this takes off. I’ve known of Cass for a good five years now, and I’ve been following Jordan for just a little longer, from her membership with Min’s Art School Dropouts to her departure in order to launch her own brand as AJKick101, which is also how Jordan herself facilitates virtual workouts as well as interviews with other stunt performers. Enjoy Broken from […]