The past week has been full of stunts, but not without a dash of drama – particularly over the haphazard-yet-brazen attempt of one particular person’s attempt at stealing glory she didn’t deserve. It happens often and it ALWAYS deserves calling out. In lieu of this, however, it also presents an opportunity to show some appreciation to one other aspect of the stunt community worth commending: The Stunt Drivers.
Alas, kicking off this week’s Hit List is a small handful of reels of talented stunt drivers, namely Furious Seven stuntwoman Debbie Evans in her 2011 motorcycle stunt reel, along with reels from Laura Lee Connery, Matt Covert, Marcos Garcia, Danny Bopp and Bastian Kern, showing us how it’s done!
Now, let’s get some more reels going featuring the recent feats of Marlee Barber, Jeremy Marinas, Morgan Benoit, Alex Duong, Gabriel Caste, Zoltan Hodi, Kendall Wells, Jake Eavey, Max Calder and actor Jason Statham handing over a thrashin’ to stuntman Kenny Waymack Jr.! Afterwards, Get Off The Ground with Tempest Freerunning’s own Gabe Nuñez, and watch Kung Fu Heroes’s own Wes Scarpias as he busts out some sharp moves of his own!
New short film content is also coming, and for this, we have a few new trailers – the first comes from director Florian Metzner’s new crime short, Aslan, about young Turkish martial arts fighter who travels to Germany to rescue his long lost, wayward brother from Berlin’s criminal underworld; Germany’s own Movie-Do desihned the action, and while the project initially had a teaser back in 2011, it now appears to be resurging with a pending release. Erkan Acar, Alexander Schubert and Lilian Viegas star. Beneath that, you’ll also find a trailer for the new 20-minute martial arts sports drama short, Eye To Eye starting Martin Chan and Darren Holmquist which sees two Tae Kwon Do instructors settling their differences for the sake of their dojang.
And of course, the fighting continues with several new online gems – the first two come directly from the Noobtown Monkeys channel with one spoofing competition over noodles, and the other pitting tricking against b-boy prowess. Also following are a new freerunning action short from Umewaka Naotomo titled Parkour Ninja Assassins, Sami Huhtala and Arman Ansari’s newest performances in Albania with action design by Ramin Sohrab, the first of a three part MMA action endeavor between Team Alpha Male and Glass Pixel Studios featuring Justin Buchholz and Dustin Akbari, Ashley Beck’s latest gem, Conflict with performances by Adam Smith and Craig Canning, and Jeff Lunzaga’s latest sci-fi action comedy short, Hetja 2, continuing the longstanding reign of hyper-reality filmmaking where all the women are hot, everyone knows kung fu and shoots lasers, pork buns are awesome and no one has any idea!
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