BLACK MOON: Help Nicholas Ortiz Crowdfund His New Microbudget Indie Action Horror Thriller
The project marks Ortiz’s second indie feature effort in fifteen years.
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SHADOW FIST 2: AXE GANG: Fists And Steel Clash In The New Kung Fu Thriller Short
Indeed it’s Friday and I would imagine you’d need an escape if you’ve had a long week. Welp, if a little indie kung fu cinema is more your speed then you’re welcome to try your hand at Shadow Fist 2: Axe Gang following its recent arrival in time for this year’s star-studded tenth Urban Action Showcase & Expo in Times Square in New York City. The latest chapter hails from directors Robert Samuels and Robert Jefferson whose R4 Films LLC produced the project in collaboration with Nicholas Ortiz’s Deviant Children Productions – a near half-hour of pure, expressive cinematic indie-produced and hip-hop infused kung fu thrills that follow things up nicely from Samuels’s first installment in 2020 which you can check out here. And all by way of an expert stuntman honing in on his craft since his heyday working with some of the best of the best in 1990s […]
BLACK BETTY: Deviant Children’s Webseries Pre-Production Is Back On Track
It looks as if things are back in full swing with Nicholas Ortiz and his independent production company Deviant Children for forthcoming webseries, Black Betty. The company took to Instagram on Thursday to share the following update: View this post on Instagram A post shared by @deviantchildren Pre-production commenced earlier this year with meetings that followed but left off this summer with a tentative hiatus. As of this report, rewrites are currently underway with rehearsals expected to take off early 2020. Black Betty took off last Spring as a shortform action thriller released on YouTube with Krystal “Honey” Pizaro. Betty is a black leather-clad vigilante with a mysterious past who fights her way out of a nightclub through a gauntlet of henchmen. The original short scored three awards in two categories at the sixth Urban Action Showcase Film Festival last year. The webseries will be woven as a simultaneous series […]
BLACK BETTY: Writer/Director Nicholas Ortiz To Expand Short For Independent Webseries/Feature Film
Independent filmmaker Nicholas Ortiz has begun pre-production this week on Black Betty, a female-fronted action thriller webseries now in production via his NYC-based Deviant Children Productions banner. The project will be spun from his original Spring 2018 proof pilot which snagged three awards in two categories at the sixth Urban Action Showcase Film Festival. “Nick is on his bullshit!” jokes dancer/choreographer and actress Krystal Pizarro who led the narrative in the title role, earing Best Actor in the Angels Of Action category at the UASE. “There’s a reason why his company is called Deviant Children Productions – that man always has something up his sleeve and he knows what the hell he’s doing.” In the proof pilot, Betty is a black leather-clad vigilante heading through a gauntlet of henchmen as she fights her way from captivity out of a nightclub. The webseries, which will be tethered as a workable feature […]
THE HIT LIST: January 7, 2019
I sincerely hope everyone reading this had the best, most memorable Holliday season and New Year they could. It was a bit rocky the last two weeks leading up to my birthday on Friday, but I can’t even begin (try as I may) to illustrate how wonderful it was to attend my first ever ceremonial premiere event for a movie with friends. My review of that film is here and a link to my Instagram post is right here. Indeed, it was a luminous and terrific bookend to a truly, happy birthday – although I do owe Rising Tiger’s Leroy Nguyen a big one this November as I had to leave the event early before I could say all my ‘good nights’. And I’ll be happy to share that bit of fun as well. ? As for right here and now, the first installment of THE HIT LIST is now […]
THE HIT LIST: October 1, 2018
The good news is I’m getting back a little bit more into a steady viewing of anime. Finished season 3 of My Hero Academia and caught up with the latest in the Silver Soul arc of Gintama, plus I’ve just started picking back up on features I’ve been missing out on so expect some more reviews if possible. …The bad news, it seems is the well still may be drying up in terms of weekly Hit List candidates, though I hope this isn’t long term and especially since I know folks out there are still either filming or preparing projects. At any rate, we’re back with another round of stunt and indie aciton morsels from ’round the web and we begin with a fresh new stunt reel playlist for the week. Wonder Woman Virginie Parres kicks things off followed by reels from Gene Freeman, Frederic Jean, Jeff Budner, Maria Sova, […]
THE HIT LIST: April 23, 2018
There is a LOT to sift through this week with the Hit List. I almost thought I wouldn’t be able to make it because of all the content and information I managed to come across but I think I accomplished a little something-something! L to R (top): Joanna Ke, Kyle Murillo, Ruben Maldonado, Jason Elwood Hanna, Cassandra Ebner L to R (bottom): Nik Pelekai, Aline Mayne, John Soares, Erin Haus, Johnny Gao As always, it’s another round of energizing stunt, training and performance reels by some of today’s amazing creatives and up-and-coming professionals. John Soares was a terrific find for me in the last few years with the long-awaited release of feature steampunk sci-fi, The Danger Element. He starts off the week followed by cosplayer and actress Erin Haus who has certainly earned a rightful place in the Hit List a few times in recent history, and you’re more than […]
DEVIANT PERSPECTIVES: A Constructive Analysis Of Independent Action Cinema
BTS Photo: Krystal “Honey” Pizarro on the set of Black Betty (2018) “Preparation Prevents Piss Poor Performance”– Some Dude Who Probably Learned This the Hard Way. In the world of action cinema, quality certainly reigns over quantity; A single well choreographed, well shot action sequence can excite more than two and a half hours of “lights and noise”. However even in action films both large and small, not much is mentioned of the things that had to come before that DVD started spinning in your player. Action filmmaking is highly technical, more so than most other genres that tend to offer more creative interpretations of on screen physicality. Being an indie filmmaker is already tough, but indie action filmmaking takes those challenges and complicates them even further. As of this article, we are just over one week out from going into production of Black Betty, a action short film that […]
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