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YOU CAN'T HEAR ME, YOU CAN'T SEE ME, But You Can Do Both With A Ten Second Teaser Clip From The New Action Short!

With Street Society helmer Awi Suryadi and actor and martial artist Andrew Suleiman still working the festival rounds with their latest Holy Bastards proof short, You Can’t Hear Me, You Can’t See Me, I’m guessing we are not too far off from its online release. As for what that means for its feature film prospects, I am uncertain, although the short itself guarantees something particularly fun for fans of the genre, and I’ve said that many times in the past year and a half I’ve discussed it. For what it’s worth though and while we keep waiting for its full release, we do have at least ten seconds of it now online to share and view. For the unknowing, it’s ten seconds of Capoeira stylist, actor Verdy Bhawanta as a deaf mute during the key fight in which he and Suleiman in the role of a blind man, fend off […]

DROPOUTS, TIGERS AND GRAVITY: Dinner With Indie Action Cinema's Finest

Lee B. Golden III

Once again, a year after my rendezvous with a select group of individuals resulting in ceremonious meeting and making of friends, I had the distinct pleasure of doing the same in the midst of all happening this weekend for the Urban Action Showcase & Expo. As with last year though, I didn’t get to go to the full event because of work and so everything was close to being over and finished by then, but the night was as young as it could have been despite some of the hurdles that were there. I like to give myself until 10:00pm as a good estimation of arrival time anywhere because of my commute, and you never know how these buses and trains will operate. Eventually I got to Times Square around 9:25pm where I stood outside the AMC Empire 25 at first before going inside, and I had a LOT of […]

The New Shortfilm Trailer For YOU CAN'T HEAR ME, YOU CAN'T SEE ME Will Leave You Holding Your Nuts!

Lee B. Golden III

While director Awi Suryadi awaits his latest solo directorial offering in the upcoming Indonesian street racing actioner, Street Society, his latest partnership with co-director Dicky Fa will soon sail the winds of the internet with the release of the spectacular martial arts comedy shortfilm, You Can’t Hear Me, You Can’t See Me. Currently standing as a conceptual cinematic preamble to a hopefully much larger feature-length offering, the new shortfilm stars Andrew Suleiman and Verdy Bhawanta in a story of two friends, a blind soldier and a mute cat-burglar who are forced to fend off a small group of robe-wearing masked assailants bent on kidnapping their female host, a blind hipster songstress whose own music turns everything else off. Film Combat Syndicate previously had the pleasure to report on a private screener of the new shortfilm along with the public airing of some behind-the-scenes fight training footage illustrating some of the […]