NANNY NENA’S: Dante Basco Joins New Fil-Am Martial Arts Comedy From Art School Dropouts
The “Blood And Bone” and “Avatar: The Last Airbender” talent joins a cast led by actress and martial artist Angela Jordan.
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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!
RETALIATION Trailer Teases Trouble In Paradise In New Survival Thriller Short
A release date is currently up in the air while the latest trailer for Alex Lee’s new short thriller, Retaliation is online as of a few days ago. Lee wrote and directed the project late last year joining a cast that lists Stephanie Pham and Kage Yami, along with Dan Carione, Hayley Saltford and Carlo Leonardo. A couple attempts to rekindle their marriage, but the real test comes when they run afoul of a group of hostile hunters. Those familiar with Pham and Yami can also expect further updates with their latest upcoming in-house feature work, Player Agency from Art School Dropouts. In the meaintime, Retaliation makes for a rare branch-out with both actors to look forward to. The trailer itself looks awesome, and especially with Pham’s upkeep as a strong female lead on the indie scene. Take a look below and sub to Lee on Instagram.
THE LADY FROM NOWHERE Shortfilm Teaser: Stephanie Pham Returns In Killer Noir Fashion
I still have folks asking me just when the heck I’m bringing the Hit List back. That time will come eventually. I don’t know when, but it’s coming. In the meantime, I’ll still allow myself to publish minor bits of news here promoting some of the fine creatives still doing exemplary work for action fans among netizens and that especially goes for Joey Min and the rest of the miscreants over at Art School Dropouts. Fact is, “Lady”, the name of one of their recent brainchildren of the last several years, has become a personal fan favorite of mine, and while I can’t urge Min enough to build a feature length story around her character, it’s nice to know that at least during quarantimes he’s still able to put out some smaller scale gems. Enter The Lady From Nowhere, which runs at about maybe five minutes or so, and it’s […]
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!: Peep At ASDO’s Indie Action Talent In A Slate Of New Character Posters
The last seventy-two or so hours as of this post have been nothing short of abuzz since the premiere of Art School Dropouts’ Yes Auntie: My Asian Auntie – Season 2. You can now read my review by clicking here while fans of the New Jesery-based group await further potential festival updates. Until then, we also managed to snag the exclusive character posters now available beneath created by Avery Byrd ahead of last week’s film premiere in New York City. Leading off is actor and director senpai himself, Joey Min, founder and filmmaker at Art School Dropouts and the star of the serial kung fu comedy feature back in costume since making it a hit in 2016. Rounding out the cast are Stephanie Pham, Robert Samuels, Leroy Nguyen, Angela Jordan and Robert Jefferson. Click the images below to enlarge, and tune into the Art School Dropouts via YouTube and social […]
Back By Popular Demand, YES, AUNTIE! Is A Kung Fu Cinema Love Story If There Ever Was
The animated signature logo for the team at Art School Dropouts – or as filmmaker Joey Min calls it, the team’s kamon – is no stranger to the big screen among film festival regulars. Aside from this, it bodes considerably that the kamon now etches a milestone in Min’s progression, representing his New Jersey-based independent film banner since officiating his brand in 2016. Heeding fans who’ve pined for more of his hit webseries, My Asian Auntie, fans are cordially invited to take a gander at Min’s newest continuing oddity, My Asian Auntie: Season 2 – billed otherwise for his feature film debut henceforth as Yes, Auntie!. Several interesting footnotes here reside next to the homage it lends in its presentation, nodding to legendary producer Sammo Hung’s Corey Yuen-directed 1985 actioner, Yes Madam!. By resilient design, a once recalcitrant Hung eventually land a protégé in actor and aspiring stuntman, Robert Samuels, […]
HER HERO ACADEMIA: An Interview With Actress And Martial Artist Angela Jordan
Going forward, there will definitely be some significant changes in the atmosphere – albeit for the better. New partnerships and relationships will form and with that, new prospects to come in lieu of my own observations and coverage, and you can certainly tack on the name Angela Jordan to the list of folks adapting to the ever fluctuating atmosphere. It was precisely on March 21, 2016 when this super-talented New Jersey resident landed on my radar, and it’s been a thrill covering her ever since. Eventually taken under the wing of Joey Min and Stephanie Pham for a time at Art School Dropouts, Jordan’s burgeoning resumé in the independent online film scene has grown immensely with her proliferation as a desired favorite. The first of her next few appearances will be in the not-too-distant online premiere of the hotly-anticipated second episode of Power Rangers: Unworthy, from Deviant Children Productions and […]
COME DRINK WITH ME: An Interview With Actress And Martial Artist Stephanie Pham
Coverage continues this week with Art School Dropouts as they now work to proliferate their latest webseries, Yes, Auntie!, which is also setting up a feature edit premiere at the Museum Of The Moving Image next month. From what I’ve gathered, the ASDO members will be in attendance for a Q&A at the January 4 screening, including one Stephanie Pham who has been with the group for several years now. She’s become one of the most vastly prolific talents on both sides of the camera and from a background of intellect and versatility, and poise that I’ve come to admire in the last four years and having shaken her hand on at least two occasions. After sharing my first-ever interview with Joey Min, Ms. Pham is next on my roster as of Monday with our Q&A below. Enjoy, and don’t forget to visit the museum’s website, and be sure to […]
STARTING SOMEWHERE: An Interview With Art School Dropouts Founder, Actor And ‘Director Senpai’, Joey Min
Just shortly after announcing their newest ten-dollar ‘Thank You’ campaign on Kickstarter, the team at Art School Dropouts found themselves in lucrative straits as their crowdfunding platform accrued more than enough funds to throw a pizza party for a cast-and-crew screening and commentary for their feature film debut. This brings us to the official trailer now online for Yes, Auntie!: My Asian Auntie Season 2, produced and directed by in-house creatives Joey Min and Stephanie Pham who also star in the film. The plan is to the release the film in serial format just as they did with the first season in 2016 – only now they’ve amassed enough materials to weave together a feature-length format, marking a debut milestone for the team since the birth of ASDO in 2009, and prior to its affirmation just a few years ago. For this and for as long as I’ve been following […]
MY ASIAN AUNTIE SEASON 2: YES AUNTIE! Star, Director Launches $10 Kickstarter With ‘Thank You’
The last several years have been great in getting to acquaint myself with filmmaker Joey Min and his team at Art School Dropouts. They’ve amassed multiple awards at festivals and continue to garner support from fans and viewers in a field that Min has been hustling in since long before when Team FistyleZ was a thing. Nowadays and with a rousing quintet of talents in collusion with some of the best of the best in the northeast, the team is on deck to finish up and release their first feature film in My Asian Auntie Season 2: Yes Auntie!. Having pulled together the essential resources needed, ASDO’s Min then took to the channel to launch a Kickstarter video to help raise $10 as a simple thank you to fans for years of genuine support. The Kickstarter does have a two-month time frame though, and so an independent group such as […]
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