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YANKEE: Debut Actress Devon Slack Fights For Emancipation In The First Official Trailer

In no uncertain terms, it’s still very much registering in my head and my heart right now that I’m quoted on the latest artwork for Stéphan Beaudoin’s new gritty action drama, Yankee. This comes in the wake of its latest run this month for the online installment of the 24th Fantasia International Film Festival, and if you’d like to know more, you’re invited to check out my review. In the meantime, the official trailer is now online following a teaser that aptly whet my appetite prior to publishing my Fantasia curtain-raiser. And considering that my site’s coverage extends to independent cinema and burgeoning talent from the stunt community around the world, Yankee is a film that falls directly in my purview. A Quebec drug dealer leads his American cousin into the world of illegal street fights. A dramatic and violent descent into a ruthless universe. Storied by Beaudoin and screenwriter […]

FANTASIA XXIV Review: In Stéphan Beaudoin’s YANKEE, When Fighting To Survive Is All That Matters, Win Or Lose

Lee B. Golden III

Say what you will about stunt performers with respect to acting. The fact remains is the two go equally hand in hand, and for this, whatever amount of formal training Canadian stunt performer Devon Slack has had prior to shooting her first feature lead role in Stéphan Beaudoin’s new drama, Yankee, rest assured, she’s pulled off quiet a compelling feat. Slack throws herself head-first into the role of Skylar, an Albany resident whose cousin, Kev (Jean-Phliippe Perras) pulls her from the dreary dwellings of her upstate N.Y. residency and takes her into his Drummondville home where they start arranging a way for her to help bring some money in through underground fighting. Skylar’s got the moves, but she’s way rough around the edges and it’s up to Kev to help get Skylar trained and prepped to take on fighters. Besides, Kev isn’t exactly doing it for the love of the […]