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ARTIST UNKNOWN Trailer: A Prized Painting Sets The Stage For A Fighter’s Biggest Match Yet

At long last with at least one festival screening and a few award wins in the can, director Cinder Chou can finally tout her feature debut a little more with the official trailer now circulating for indie romantic caper comedy, Artist Unknown. The film, starring Kerry Lacy and Sonia Mena, is currently setting up shop at more festivals with Chou looking to potentially screen at Fort Lauderdale later this year. Unlucky-in-love martial artist Juniper has hit rock bottom. She’s working at her ex girlfriend’s MMA studio by day and crashing on her couch by night. Needing something to call her own, Juniper steps into a local thrift store and buys a painting. What was a spur-of-the-moment purchase turns into a life-changing adventure when two masked thieves try to steal the painting. She surprises herself and the would-be thieves when she fights back and escapes. When forced to fight the ultimate […]

ARTIST UNKNOWN Review: Art Imitates Life With A Kick To The Face In Cinder Chou’s Feature Debut

Lee B. Golden III

Close to four years after getting briskly acquainted with the screen prowess of actress Kerry Lacy in 2017 short, Viola, I remained watchful of her movements in hopes that I would hear more about the short film saga and her other endeavors. Gradually this led me to discover her new partnership with Taiwanese-American director Cinder Chou at the time as filming went underway for the independent queer action romantic comedy-drama, Artist Unknown which now finds Lacy in her debut lead role from a script by Chou. It’s not long from the start of the movie before we get to see a little of what Lacy’s got in her arsenal in the role of Juniper, a self-defense instructor who gets ambushed by two would-be muggers just moments after impulsively buying a fifteen-dollar painting at a thrift store, and successfully fends them off thanks to the arrival of the police. Later while […]