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.
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”.
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!
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.
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.
I think at least one other important lesson I must always remember is that I don’t get out enough.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CWlau1QpwY_/?utm_medium=copy_linkArt 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.
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.
As prone as we are to including independent action films in our coverage, it was only a matter of time before I’d be back to covering New York-based filmmaker Jon Truei (Gamer’s Generation, Secondary Education), currently in production with kung fu comedy, The 44th Chamber Of Shaolin.
Joey Min at Art School Dropouts released a new video essay at his official YouTube channel on how to make a feature film with no money. It’s about fifteen minutes long, and I have to say, it especially goes beyond the listed “steps”, one which includes, as Min himself elucidates: “Be nice. Be-Fucking-Nice.”
Saturday officially marked the launch of the June 2020 edition of the In-House Grindhouse from Art School Dropouts. Fifty entries from filmmakers around the world spanning different genres are hosted in the six film blocks embedded below with livestreams that will include some Q&A segments between the channel and the filmmakers themselves.
(l) Angela Jordan; (r) Jon Aldanese
Crooked Cowboy Productions/YouTube Screengrab
Max Huang in “No Way Out”/YouTube Screengrab
Jason Li in “The Index” (YouTube Screengrab)
YouTube Screengrab/Ashley Beck
Art School Dropouts will take to their platforms this weekend to host The In-House Grindhouse, an interactive livestream to showcase a trio of short-duration film blocks host to independent filmmakers around the web, spanning different genres. The New Jersey-based film troupe made the announcement just over a few weeks ago for a call to entries stamped for an April 5 deadline.
Jay Kwon (off-screen: Kiera O’Connor) in “Social Distancing”
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