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THE HUNT: SAVAGE WITHIN Asks What Becomes Of The Hunted In Fabien Garcia’s New Sci-Fi Thriller Short

It’s not everyday you read about an independent film project that’s endured more than your average fair share of hurdles along the way. To add, Fabien Garcia’s new sci-fi thriller short, The Hunt: Savage Within, nearly two years in the making with a strenuous two-part crowdfunding effort, also had to mitigate a pre-production period hampered by more sweeping fires across California, along with a deadly viral pandemic that forced much of North America and the rest of the world into lockdown.

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THE DRAGON’S ALLY: An Interview With Alexandre Bailly

I was always fascinated by their quality of work in terms of action and storytelling, and I was certainly happy to see the likes of French actor and martial artist Alexandre Bailly among them. His participation in the 2007/2008 shortfilm, Brothers Forever, helped continue to signal a calling for the mainstream to pay attention and watch, much like other teams at the time – something that inspired me to start a freehostia.com account to get my own news site going and help discuss martial arts and action movies on a larger scale.

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A Case For Better Action Movies: DIE FIGHTING (2014)

The Z-Team, four Shaolin-forged martial artists has just won the top award at a Film Festival. FABIEN, LOHAN, DIDIER, and JESS immediately set their sights for Hollywood, but from within the shadows emerges a new challenge: the four find themselves in front of the seemingly inescapable eye of a mysterious DIRECTOR who forces them to “act” in his own brutal reality film, with the lives of their loved ones at stake. Their every move watched through hidden cameras like mice in a maze, the Z-Team are forced to run a gamut through the seedy underbelly of LA – from robbing an armored truck, encountering a Drug Lord, breaking an entire dojo of BLACKBELTS, evading a SWAT team, surviving a blazing gunfight…and it’s all a part of the Director’s script. A dark filmmaker’s game culminating into a shocking ending which reveals just how high the price of success is.

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Z-Team Films' DIE FIGHTING Goes On Demand This November!

In what can only be described as one of the most exemplary cases of dilligence, the independent filmmaking team over at the now Los Angeles-based Z-Team Films have now seen the first of their long-awaited efforts come to pass. Their newest feature-length debut, Die Fighting, comes roughly fourteen years after the team first got together in Beijing by way of France, contributing to the growing popularity of online action shorts with notable gems like Duel and Brothers Forever.

Co-founding members, martial artists and actors Lohan Buson, and director Fabien Garcia spoke to Film Combat Syndicate a few months ago just as their new film began gaining recognition during Action On Film Festival 2014, evidently winning Best Fight Choreography and earning Buson accolades for Breakout Action Star; Respective links are attributed HERE and HERE where you can read more about their past and future endeavors. Meanwhile, it’s high time their film saw an audience, so Gravitas Ventures will be granting North America martial arts fans a proper video-on-demand release beginning on November 4, 2014.

SYNOPSIS:

When a team of Shaolin-trained kung fu actors are on the verge of breaking into Hollywood, a shady Director forces them through a gauntlet in Los Angeles, filming their every move as they are pitted against a gallery of thugs.

International release info is still pending from Lighthouse Pictures. Garcia and Buson are joined by Didier Buson, Jess Allen and Dave Vescio, with Adelyne Liu, Xin Sarith Wuku, Jose Rosete, Gray Michael Sallies, Davis Chong, Michael Antonio Griffith Jr. and Aoni Ma rounding out the cast.

Watch the trailer below and follow the movie on Facebook!

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