ATTACK OF THE AJUMMA: Asian Aunties Set The Rules In Team Red Pro’s Fantastic Short
Shot in a day, directed by Joseph Le!
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OUT OF BODY: Lestonja Diaz Takes Control In Joseph Le’s Chilling, Award-Winning Supernatural Horror Short
Stunt professional and action director Joseph Le (Everything Everywhere All At Once, “Ashoka”) remains a bookmark in who to watch going into the new year for me. In the time I’ve consumed his shortfilm work, he’s proven to be adept at telling stories beyond what’s up my alley, and his latest shortfilm project, Out Of Body, is proof of that fact. Lily seeks sexual liberation during an intimate date. But when she’s targeted by a malevolent vagrant’s spirit, her night turns into a battle for control over her own body, entwining desire, fear, and the supernatural. I’ve seen my share of long and shortform horror enough to know that these types of projects are about more than hype, gore, spectacle and jump scares. Le ekes out a little bit of these too, but with a crucial caveat in this instance with a message pertinent to things like consent and boundaries. It’s […]
OUT OF BODY: Indie Action Outlet Team Red Pro Reveal Trailer For Chilling Horror Short Debut
Given all the spur-of-the-moment horror musings I sometimes stumble upon, it wouldn’t be right of me to pass up Out Of Body, the latest from Team Red Pro and director Joseph Le who regularly pops in on this website as a standout action choreographer in the stunt arena. His credits partly include Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Everything Everywhere All At Once, Knights Of The Zodiac, and Disney+ series “Ashoka”. Billed as “a trippy sensual horror,” and taking inspiration from thrillers like X and It Follows, Out Of Body stars Lestonja Diaz, Curtis Lum, and Alexya Garcia from a script by Ryan Kim, and centers on a sheltered woman whose date turns into a surreal battle against a malevolent entity. The official trailer circulating this week certainly lends some scintillating and equally chilling visuals hinting at just how all this entails, and more importantly are Le’s motivations […]
EARNING HIS TIGER STRIPES: A Word With ‘Twisting Tiger’ Director Joseph Le
If 2021 is perceived as a hallmark moment for Asian representation for film, 2022 certainly feels like a continuation, if not an augmentation of that progress. One purveyor that stands to gain from the current momentum happening in films of late is Joseph Le, six years into his craft under the Team Red Pro independent film label and having networked enough to gain traction for his own career and now sharing the revels with a lot of his own colleagues within the stunt and independent film community. In addition to his own work, he’s also worked with creators like Leroy Nguyen, Aaron Toney and Vlad Rimburg, as well as for a short time on the late Monty Oum’s hit series RWBY, and his resumè has only grown phenomenally with at least three major films productions so far. Best of all is Le gets to share space with friends like Brian […]
TWISTING TIGER: Joseph Le’s New Kung Fu Crime Drama Claws Its Way Online In The First Trailer
Stunt professional Joseph Le hasn’t backed down from his own directorial ambitions, having etched himself a place in history with works hailing from production banners Turtle Wave and Team Red Pro over the years. Point in fact, and having since embarked on a career trajectory that’s taken him to the sets of Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend Of The Ten Rings, Daniels’ pending SXSW premiere Everything Everywhere All At Once, and 2023’s Saint Seiya: Knights Of The Zodiac, Le’s been keeping up the habit with the most recent completion of his new upcoming kung fu crime drama, Twisting Tiger. After committing to a life of zen, a Black Shaolin Disciple with PTSD must break his vow of nonviolence and save his students from a bloodthirsty Asian gang. The project ran a crowdsourcing campaign last year as cameras rolled and the plan is now to take the half-hour shortfilm to festivals […]
Leroy Nguyen On Long-Awaited Indie Gangster Pic, SILVERBACK: “F*ck Your Feelings”
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Leroy Nguyen (@leroy.nguyen) Back in August we reported plans by filmmaker and actor Leroy Nguyen to move forward with Silverback, the independent pic that would have otherwise been his feature debut preceding his 2017 film, Black Scar Blues. After Nguyen moved forward on the project in 2010, principal photography began a year later and wrapped in 2012 before its entry into Amazon Studios for more proliferation. Fast forward to 2018 and after leaving it shelved for so long, he’s since reunited with fellow local filmmaker Joseph Le of Team Red to go full circle after ramping up additional photography in July. Both Nguyen and Le can be seen in a current ten-minute sizzle promo to share with audiences at this year’s sixth Urban Action Showcase and Expo to sample a little bit of the narrative to introduce to moviegoers keen on […]
THE HIT LIST: June 11, 2018
My weekend was a total blank so any weekend fun will have to wait until further notice. The Sense8 finale was great though and I highly recommend it. TOP: Vanessa Cater, Nick Clapuci, Brendon Huor, Cameron Early, Taylor Krasne Bott: Rustic B., Gee “Lil’ Bomb” Jay, Marie Fink, Wilson Sze, Jon Alagoa The Hit List, however, remains priority this week and so it goes with a nifty round of the latest reels from some of today’s best and burgeoning action actors and stunt performers, starting with Blindsided: The Game star Eric Jacobus who just rolled out his latest reel on Monday via Vimeo. Following that is a playlist comprised of reels from Marie Fink, Rustic Bodomov (a.k.a. Rustic B.), Glenn Chow, Joshua Romeo, Thomas Watson, Jen Bennett, Cameron Early, Wilson Sze, Alexander Kushch, Taylor Krasne, Spencer Davis, Kyle Murillo, Chad Mason, Vanessa Cater and co-star of the newly released action thriller, The […]
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