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BLADE Sets Special “CAN I KICK IT?” Screening Event In North Carolina For October
Tickets are now on sale at the Cary Theater website!
Can I Kick It?: Shaolin Jazz To Live-Score 80s Cult Classic AMERICAN NINJA, Debut 6K Trailer For Long-Lost Steve James Actioner, RIVERBEND
Coming to Washington D.C. on Tuesday, July 29!
3 Chambers Fest Kicks It Again With Music And Martial Arts Fans In December
Wilmington residents and visitors alike are invited to 3 Chambers Fest for another annual blend of festive hip-hop, anime and martial arts cinema delights later this year. The four-day event kicks off on December 4 and early bird passes are now on sale via the official 3 Chambers website with more info to come. 3 Chambers Fest fuses hip-hop, martial arts, and anime culture through a variety of live music performances, immersive art, gaming, and innovative movie experiences. It is the brainchild of festival President, Christopher Everett, with a mission in great part to serve as an annual destination for hip-hop music, martial arts, and anime fans worldwide, with a continued emphasis on community, diversity, and inclusivity. Par for the course for 3 Chambers Fest is Can I Kick It?, the interwoven series of screening events in association with local NC hip-hop duo Shaolin Jazz, producing live hip-hop scores for […]
KILL BILL: VOL. 1 To Get The Shaolin Jazz Treatment At BEYOND In Cary Next Month!
The seventh edition of Beyond: The Cary Film Festival in Cary, North Carolina, is set to kick off on September 5 at the Cary Theater. Part of the line-up will see the festival’s screening of Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill: Vol. 1, in association with 3 Chambers Fest, with the film screened with a live scene-by-scene music score by Shaolin Jazz. The first half of a two-volume diptych, Tarantino’s Kill Bill: Vol. 1 released in 2003, unleashing a revival of classic Asian cinema tropes infused with his groundbreaking and often audacious style. In the film, Uma Thurman stars as an unnamed Bride whose life of repose and impending motherhood and marriage is violently upended by her former employer, Bill, played by the late David Carradine. Having survived the ordeal following a four year coma, the Bride plots course for vengeance against the people who murdered her fiance and wedding party, and […]
3 CHAMBERS FEST Launches In October With Live-Music, THE CROW w/ Shaolin Jazz And More In October!
Residents and consumers of music and genre cinema delights will find themselves in good company come the arrival of the inaugural 3 Chambers Fest in Wilmington, North Carolina. Hosted by Speller Street Films, the festival will be home to a fusion of hip-hop, martial arts, and anime, featuring live music performances and immersive film and art experiences, and more. Per the announcement this Tuesday this week, 3 Chambers Fest commences on Friday, October 13, at Waterline Brewing Company with live performances by Solemn Brigham / Marlowe and Skyzoo live in concert. Advance tickets are now up for grabs at $10 with door prices at $20. Doors will open at 8:00pm with the show starting at 9:00 PM with opening performances by Wilmington hip-hop artists Louis. and MoeSOS DC. Friday’s event is sponsored by Waterline Brewing Company and Brooks Pierce. The following Saturday will see the newest edition of Can I […]
WEEKEND OF THE WARRIOR: Grandmaster Vic Moore Doc, Berry Gordy’s THE LAST DRAGON Topline Black History Month At North Carolina Film Event In 2023!
Folks in the town of Cary in North Carolina are cordially invited for back-to-back film festivities in early 2023, firstly to witness Weekend Of The Warrior, starting with Grandmaster: The Vic Moore Story, a new documentary from director and producer Christopher Everett. The screening will be a work-in-progress presentation of the film, hosted by the Town of Cary, Speller Street Films, and Southern Documentary Fund at The Cary Theater on Friday, February 24 at 7:00pm in celebration of Black History Month & African American Appreciation Month. Grandmaster: The Vic Moore Story focuses on the life and times of Grandmaster Vic Moore. A pioneer at his craft, Moore took on a variety of styles in his heyday, studying under the likes of Robert Trias, William J. Dometrich and Maung Gyi. He blazed a trail in the 1960s and 70s as one of the first African-Americans in history to pave the way […]
CAN I KICK IT?: Shaolin Jazz Returns In October With ENTER THE DRAGON!
Gerald Watson and DJ 2-Tone Jones, better known as their prolific stage moniker, Shaolin Jazz, are returning for more thrilling kung fu entertainment with this year’s seventh installment of Can I Kick It? in Wilmington, North Carolina next month. The hip-hop duo will be on hand to apply their own ambient score for audiences, this time for a screening of action legend Bruce Lee’s 1973 classic, Enter The Dragon. The screening is presented in collaboration between the North Carolina Black Film Festival, Speller Street Films, and Black Kung Fu Cinema. Shaolin Jazz has been in business since 2013 with the Can I Kick It? series, catering to the lovers of martial arts flicks, music, and everything else in between, coining it as “a martial arts film series with a mixtape twist.” With Jones at the turntable for next month, fans will get to live scene-by-scene score fusing elements of Funk, […]
Celebrate Sammo Hung With A Hip-Hop-Flavored Fistful Of Well Go USA’s IP MAN 2 This Friday!
Netizens are invited this Friday to partake in this month’s livestream celebration of actor and Asian action legend Sammo Hung for Shaolin Jazz’s latest livestream installment of Can I Kick It?. Presented in association with the National Museum Of Asian Art for the Made In Hong Kong Film Festival, Shaolin Jazz will premiere Wilson Yip’s 2010 franchise sequel hit, Well Go USA’s Ip Man 2: Legend Of The Grandmaster, bolstered by a live soundtrack performance by DJ 2-Tone Jones. The film bookends its three-title slate following this month’s screenings of Huang Feng’s The Final Plot, and Corey Yuen’s Yes, Madam. Since kicking off in 2013, Can I Kick It? is best known for rolling out the festivities with immense gala for in-person attendance as it has for the last six years – something that’s obviously become a factor due to the pandemic and the new rise of cases as of […]