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SURVIVING THE GAME: A Word With ‘Layers Of Lies’ Star And Director Ramin Sohrab

What you’re seeing above is just one major bookmark of actor and martial artist Ramin Sohrab’s life – the result of years of training and hardship earned through his craft up to this point, as he now makes his way to the festival circuit outside Iran for the first time with rescue action thriller, Layers Of Lies. In addition to starring, he also directs this, his debut feature, a choice which be one of necessity. A result of unending searches for a good crew to hire within his means eventually confined him with the authority of directing tfilm himself. The result? Four years of principal photography, during which Sohrab would be, as he puts it in our first interview, “fighting” for his life. Government and local industry restrictions within Iran, stifled funding, and broken commitments due to a fickle film market, a Covid-19 infection, and a broken leg are all […]

LAYER OF LIES: The Race Begins For Ramin Sohrab’s Debut Martial Arts Action Feature Now Filming

Lee B. Golden III

Ramin Sohrab on the set of Malek (2014) EXCLUSIVE: A filmmaker will go the extra mile to make a film happen, and with a concept that feels so good and workable that they’re willing to risk more than enough. Finnish-Iranian actor and martial artist Ramin Sohrab certainly fits the mold with a career lasting up to a decade and wearing several hats throughout his career thusfar whilst primarily calibrating hismelf as Iran’s answer to the likes of Jet Li or Donnie Yen. Malek, his 2014 proof-of-concept action short was a terrific exhibition of his skillset following four years of slow development in Iran and preceded another four years of even slower progress. His 2017 concept proof, Viulu, proved equally stellar despite taking it to BiFan at Korea last year in hopes of stirring up some funding only to end up seeing those efforts fall short as well. Thus, landing right […]

THE HIT LIST: February 20, 2017

Lee B. Golden III

So, I finally saw John Wick: Chapter Two and you can read my review here… Yes, I am as happy as a fat kid at a salad bar replaced by a chocolate cake vendor. Moving on, the Hit List is here for a new week and it’s an absolute shit ton of awesome and we kick it right off like we normally do with a raft of cool new stunt and training demo reels by today’s top performers. Icing the top of this muffin is Eric Jacobus in his own iteration, “Hot Ryu” for his latest Street Fighter movelist, followed by spectacular stunt samplers by Marshall A. Bingham, Chien Van Duong, Kendall Wells, Jared Beaulieu, Olivia Brown, Juliette Kendall, Simon Li, Samuel Symon, and Ukranian fall guy Mykola Galagan with a new fight choreography and performance reel of his own. Enjoy! Onto some things to promote and we begin with […]

EXCLUSIVE: A Cadence Of Vengeance Looms In The Teaser For Ramin Sohrab’s VIULU

Lee B. Golden III

It was a few years ago that Finnish filmmaker, actor and stunt coordinator Ramin Sohrab landed on our radar with a slick proof teaser for a project called Malek. He already has several acting and stunt credits to his name as well as in film but Malek, in its circulation, was what eventually caught my eye having seen it written about elsewhere. Since then, Sohrab’s own career progression has landed him his latest effort, Viulu, which now presents a full-on blast of action and intensity in its first proof trailer following a poster reveal last month. Sohrab plays a man on his way to play his violin one last time for his wife, but not until he sets out into the seedy criminal underworld to retrieve it from the thieves who stole it from him. Priming it as a hopeful feature, Viulu was shot in freezing Helsinki last year within […]