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JAILBREAK: Autumn Sun Revives Cambodian Action Hit In Time For FilMart

Cambodian action thriller Jailbreak is back in the sales circuit. Hong Kong-based Autumn Sun announced the film among its current slate at this year’s FilMart, marking its first movement since beginning its rollout in 2017. The film’s buzzy circulation continued onward through the festival scene, including at the 21st edition of Fantasia where it scored Best Action Film and a nomination for Most Innovative Feature Film. Jailbreak was a milestone moment in the action and martial arts genre for Cambodian filmgoers, hailing from director Jimmy Henderson and producer Loy Te of Kongchak Pictures. Starring local action talent and Bokator specialist Dara Our (Hanuman), and UK-based actor and martial artist Jean Paul-Ly (Nightshooters), Jailbreak centers on a botched prison escort that unravels into chaos, forcing the team to fight for their lives while protecting a key witness from the menacing inmates, as well as the deadly gang of assasins targeting him. […]

A TIME TO ‘PREY’: Jimmy Henderson Talks THE PREY, JAILBREAK, Sequel Prospects And More

Lee B. Golden III

At some point in the last several years, Cambodia became next in line for contributing to today’s fandom in martial arts action films. Leave it to Jimmy Henderson to pull the necessary weight in recent memory for the release of albeit obscure 2015 vigilante thriller, Hanuman, signaling the arrival of martial artist and debut actor, Dara Our, and his expertise in the centuries’ old fighting style of Bokator. “I can’t make a film without Dara. We started together with nothing. We didnt even have a proper gym to train choreography while prepping for Hanuman.” says Henderson who is now onto their latest and most ambitious project, The Prey, which is currently in production. “He’s always up for challenges. And even though he plays a supporting role have in this film, the fight sequences he will have to do are insane.” The Prey was announced back in January following the local […]

The Team Behind ‘Jailbreak’ Announces THE PREY From Altered Vision And Kongchak Pictures

Lee B. Golden III

Kongchak 2017 was something of a banner year for the good folks at Kongchak Pictures. The festival run for martial arts action comedy, Jailbreak, spawned a huge calling from fans much to the favor of producer Loy Te and director, Jimmy Henderson whose regional action feature debut, Hanuman, essentially illuminated some of the best Cambodia offers nowadays in screenfighting talent. For this, it should be of no suprise, but just sheer delight that they are back at it again with the new action thriller, The Prey, written by Henderson, Jailbreak scribe Michael Hogdson and newcomer Kai Miller. Andrew Mack’s report at ScreenAnarchy cites a press announcement enlisting five-time Chinese national boxing, dual arms champion Gu Sheng Wei (Bloody Destiny) as Xin, a do-gooder undercover cop who finds himself fighting for his life when a surprise raid lands him in a remote jungle prison host to a game for affluent hunters […]