fighting spirit film festival 2020

RED: Beau Fowler Is Ready To Spill Plenty In The Grisly First Teaser For The New Action Short

Even during a crippling pandemic, actor and producer Beau Fowler (Avengement, Blood, Sweat & Terrors: Express Delivery) is already on hand for the festival scene this year as he continues to push his latest short, Red, which now comes with a first teaser just above. Fowler reunites with stunt professional-turned-filmmaker David Newton (The Take Down) for the project which recently earned a nomination for Best Stunts at the fifth Birmingham Film Festival, and is also a current finalist for Best Picture at New York Film Festival. Billed as a proof-of-concept action short for a hopeful feature thriller, Red hails from Ki Films and centers on Fowler in the role of “an ex-soldier who awakes in a bath of ice, and missing a kidney. Piecing together the desperate choices he made to locate his daughter an organ match, he must now fight for survival within the red market harvesting den he’s […]

Fighting Spirit Film Festival 2020: A Full-Day’s Line-Up For The Single-Day Festivities For November 7

Lee B. Golden III

Like with most of the festivals this year, good folks over at Fighting Spirit Film Festival have had to harness plenty of its own spirit to try and mitigate its 2020 events through the global Covid-19 pandemic. As of late though, the festival has resolved to a one-day presentation that’s already fully-loaded and brimming with some promising titles, all screening at Premiere Cinemas in Romford with Covid-19 safety protocols in place. There will be two shortfilm blocks from the top, followed by a presentation of the Dead End shortfilm trilogy starring Bryan Larkin and Julian Gaertner, and a pair of feature presentations to boot, starting with Yang Yun-ho’s rousing, dramatic martial arts period epic, Fighter In The Wind, featuring Yang Dong-kun, Masaya Kato, Aya Hirayama and Jeong Tae-woo, with Jung Doo-hung, Choi Ji-woong and Sachiko Kokubu. The second will be Matt Routlege’s feature directing debut, Tribal: Get Out Alive, with […]