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.
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 […]
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 […]
“Be Nice… Be-F*cking-Nice.”: Art School Dropouts’ Director Sempai Joey Min Talks A Zero-Budget Filmmaking, Morale And Self-Discovery
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.” That, to me, among feeding your crew and saying ‘Thank You’, is tantamount to the process in whole, while also worth noting the true intent of the video. Filmmaking is largely a learning-by-doing process, as I’ve learned from various film professionals in the last seven years through their own experiences, some of which who’ve evolved amply immensely in terms of character, creativity and morale. Min conveys his points through some of the experiences he shares with behind-the-scenes highlights of his recent webseries hit/feature debut, My Asian Auntie S2: Yes, Auntie!, in addition to other ASDO projects, and […]
HAPPY FAMILY: New Martial Arts Comedy Now In The Works From The Team Behind ‘My Asian Auntie’ And ‘Yes, Auntie!’ [EXCLUSIVE]
Filmmaking duo Joey Min and Stephanie Pham are currently in development with Happy Family, a new feature martial arts comedy next in line from their Art School Dropouts independent film banner. Plot details are currently under wraps, though the film is being billed as “a martial arts action comedy film for the family”, with “a twist on the modern hero origin story, while adding cultural elements, comedy and old-school Hong Kong style action scenes”. Min, founder and senior director of Art School Dropouts, will also join Pham on the acting side. Both are especially fluent in martial arts as they are in their film craft; Min is experienced in Shaolin Kung Fu, and Pham is a champion Taekwondo medalist who has twice repped the U.S. on the competitive circuit. Further casting details are pending as the company aims for a now early 2021 shoot, after scaling back from a late […]
LADY 2: Watch Stephanie Pham Mutilate A Room Full Of Sex Traffickers In The Relentless New ASDO Action Short (NSFW)
March 2018 saw a brief change of pace for director Joey Min with Lady, a three-minute experiment with a more “gritty and serious” direction apart from his usual kung fu comedy formula. Lady was a hit with fans and followers on YouTube, coalescing with the following success of Min’s highly-celebrated My Asian Auntie sequel, Yes, Auntie!, and so Min and actress/martial artist Stephanie Pham are back and in brutal and bloody fashion with Lady 2. The action is the total package here with Pham front and center, and in the kind of principal role you’ve NEVER seen before. It’s a first for Art School Dropouts and it’s anbeye-popping, mind-blowingly violent and fun turn for the ASDO crew this go-around. Moreover, I especially love Pham’s sign-off here and the depth it adds to the character. …It also sucks that this project is only eight minutes. Imagine what Min and Pham could […]
YES, AUNTIE!: Asiancrush Acquires Hit Web Sequel From Art School Dropouts Now Available On Amazon Prime
Art School Dropouts’ martial arts comedy sequel webseries, Yes, Auntie!: My Asian Auntie Season 2, is now available on Amazon Prime as of May 21. The New Jersey-based independent film banner took to YouTube on Thursday to make the announcement of the feature film edition’s acquisition by New York-based Asiancrush as of late February/early March. The original My Asian Auntie, as it reads on their official YouTube channel, took off in 2016, and returned by popular demand as Yes, Auntie!: My Asian Auntie Season 2, with the participation of as many as five independent film banners from groups throughout the NY, Philidelphia and DC areas, including Team One Take and Kamen Ramen. The official trailer premired exclusively at the AMC Empire 25 last November as festivities went underway for the sixth-annual Urban Action Showcase & Expo in New York City. The team, comprised of members Joey Min, Stephanie Pham, Gun […]
YES, AUNTIE!: My Asian Auntie Takes Kung Fu Shape With Its Season Two Premiere!
It was an honor and a privilege getting to be a part of the experience had with the guests at the Museum Of The Moving Image last month screening Yes, Auntie!: My Asian Auntie Season 2, and I have none other to thank than the cast themselves, and especially co-star, producer and legendary Sammo Hung protege Robert Samuels for making that possible. Alas, reviews and hype aside, the wait is no more as the first episode is now online following the success of the first season inaugurated into cult fandom by the creatives of Art School Dropouts and director/star Joey Min. A feature film edit is assuredly pending, while Thursday’s premiere officially culminates the hard work and dedication of the numerous creative indie action units who’ve made this series possible. Enjoy the zany comedy, and the fast, fluid kung fu action featuring Min and Samuels along with Stephanie Pham, Leroy […]
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