SALVAJES: Tunnel Vision Blurs The Line Between Good And Evil In Stephen Renney’s New Short Action Thriller
It’s been about two years since stunt performer and filmmaker Stephen Renney landed on The Hit List here at FCSyndicate. He’s gradually grown his indie workload some in the shorts department, currently heading off with his newest contained action thriller, Salvajes, starring Luis Valladares in a grisly and violent short story that ensues when a crimeboss’s arrival at a private criminal gathering explodes with brutally poetic results. It helps that Renney is a career stunt performer as well with credits partly including Machinima’s Mortal Kombat Legacy, Jude Weng’s Finding ‘Ohana and Dev Patel’s impending directorial debut, Monkey Man – it lends credence to his comprehension of action direction, which is something many fanboys take heed to when vetting a filmmaker’s work. For this, we see in Salvajes what we hope to see in a future feature-length endeavor that will hopefully sit Renney alongside today’s cadre of filmmaking favorites, i.e. Isaac […]