The Fighting Spirit Film Festival is a unique festival dedicated to Martial Arts films. Through martial arts cinema the organisers aim to entertain and inspire people, promote martial arts culture, and support those who have chosen it as a career. Now in its sixth year, the London edition returns with a full action-packed weekend at Stratford East Picturehouse! The 2021 edition and its poster are dedicated to martial artist Max Repossi and filmmaker/musician Steven Santa Cruz, who prematurely died this past year.
In addition to screening five feature films, it will also be showcasing 32 short films by independent film makers and artists from all over the world. On top of that, there will be live Martial Art demonstrations from various clubs throughout the two days. Attendees will be able to meet and mingle with all the performers, and also with actors and production staff from the films who will be at the event.
In addition to screening five feature films, it will also be showcasing 32 short films by independent film makers and artists from all over the world. On top of that, there will be live Martial Art demonstrations from various clubs throughout the two days. Attendees will be able to meet and mingle with all the performers, and also with actors and production staff from the films who will be at the event.
- 9/1/2021
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
“I didn’t really think there were that many people out there who were interested in Mr. Miyagi,” Kevin Derek says. “But (it turns out) millions and millions of people are.”
Derek is a martial artist, producer, and documentarian, whose latest documentary, More Than Miyagi: The Pat Morita Story, seeks to humanize the man behind some of pop culture’s most mythical characters. The timing for such a doc couldn’t have been better, but it turns out that was simply good fortune.
“We started shooting this back in 2016, so it was a year before Cobra Kai was even in production,” says Derek. “They didn’t even know that they were going to shoot Cobra Kai.”
Everyone knows Pat Morita from his beloved Oscar-nominated role as Mr. Miyagi in The Karate Kid franchise, and many remember him as Arnold in the hit TV show Happy Days. However, Morita’s TV...
Derek is a martial artist, producer, and documentarian, whose latest documentary, More Than Miyagi: The Pat Morita Story, seeks to humanize the man behind some of pop culture’s most mythical characters. The timing for such a doc couldn’t have been better, but it turns out that was simply good fortune.
“We started shooting this back in 2016, so it was a year before Cobra Kai was even in production,” says Derek. “They didn’t even know that they were going to shoot Cobra Kai.”
Everyone knows Pat Morita from his beloved Oscar-nominated role as Mr. Miyagi in The Karate Kid franchise, and many remember him as Arnold in the hit TV show Happy Days. However, Morita’s TV...
- 2/5/2021
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
"He had a lot of inner demons." Love Project Films has debuted an official trailer for a documentary titled More Than Miyagi: The Pat Morita Story, made by filmmaker Kevin Derek. This is Derek's first film about Morita, but not his first about Karate Kid connections - he also made Empty Hand: The Real Karate Kids and The Real Miyagi (about karate master Fumio Demura). The beloved Japanese-American, Oscar nominated actor best known for his role of Mr. Miyagi, left behind a painfully revealing autobiographical record of his much-too-brief time here on earth. Tracing his journey from being bed bound as a boy to the bright lights and discrimination in Hollywood. Deep inside that sweet, generous, multi-talented performer seethed an army of demons, that even alcohol and drugs couldn't mask. Pat Morita passed away in 2005, but this film seems to beautifully brighten his legacy and share his entire life story with us.
- 1/11/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The 19th Annual Fantasia Film Festival is only a week away, beginning July 14 and running through August 4. And as promised for today, they’ve revealed their full line-up of films screening at 2015’s festival in Montreal.
This year’s line-up boasts 22 World Premieres, 13 International Premieres, and 21 North American Premieres. Both Marvel’s Ant-Man and the animated Miss Hokusai were previously announced, but now they’ve added the much anticipated Attack on Titan movie as their closing night film. Other highlights include the Sundance darlings Cooties, starring Elijah Wood and Rainn Wilson, Cop Car, starring Kevin Bacon and directed by the upcoming Spider-man director Jon Watts, and a trio of films from horror auteur Sion Sono.
See the full line-up announcement of films below via Fantasia’s Facebook page, and be sure to check out their website at fantasiafestival.com for additional information.
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Fantasia 2015:
36 Countries, 135 Features, and Nearly 300 Short Films
- Including 22 World Premieres,...
This year’s line-up boasts 22 World Premieres, 13 International Premieres, and 21 North American Premieres. Both Marvel’s Ant-Man and the animated Miss Hokusai were previously announced, but now they’ve added the much anticipated Attack on Titan movie as their closing night film. Other highlights include the Sundance darlings Cooties, starring Elijah Wood and Rainn Wilson, Cop Car, starring Kevin Bacon and directed by the upcoming Spider-man director Jon Watts, and a trio of films from horror auteur Sion Sono.
See the full line-up announcement of films below via Fantasia’s Facebook page, and be sure to check out their website at fantasiafestival.com for additional information.
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Fantasia 2015:
36 Countries, 135 Features, and Nearly 300 Short Films
- Including 22 World Premieres,...
- 7/7/2015
- by Brian Welk
- SoundOnSight
Exclusive: British actor set to star in prison-based comedy-drama.
Revered British actor Timothy Spall (Mr. Turner) is set to star in new British prison-based comedy-dramaThe Special One, being pre-sold by Odin’s Eye at the Efm.
Spall will be reunited on the project with director Stephen Cookson. The duo worked together on 2011 Christmas feature, My Angel.
In The Special One, Spall is to play an eccentric prisoner who is obsessed by the performance of the English football team in the World Cup. After tracking down a mysterious and powerful fellow inmate, he is presented with a chance of escaping - and watching England in the final. But there is a sting in the tail.
The project is in the final stages of financing. It is scripted by Falcon Fields and will be executive produced by Peter Keegan. Delivery is due for the summer of 2015.
Australian sales outfit Odin’s Eye has also taken on sales duties on thriller...
Revered British actor Timothy Spall (Mr. Turner) is set to star in new British prison-based comedy-dramaThe Special One, being pre-sold by Odin’s Eye at the Efm.
Spall will be reunited on the project with director Stephen Cookson. The duo worked together on 2011 Christmas feature, My Angel.
In The Special One, Spall is to play an eccentric prisoner who is obsessed by the performance of the English football team in the World Cup. After tracking down a mysterious and powerful fellow inmate, he is presented with a chance of escaping - and watching England in the final. But there is a sting in the tail.
The project is in the final stages of financing. It is scripted by Falcon Fields and will be executive produced by Peter Keegan. Delivery is due for the summer of 2015.
Australian sales outfit Odin’s Eye has also taken on sales duties on thriller...
- 2/6/2015
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: British actor set to star in prison-based comedy-drama.
Revered British actor Timothy Spall (Mr. Turner) is set to star in new British prison-based comedy-dramaThe Special One, being pre-sold by Odin’s Eye at the Efm.
Spall will be reunited on the project with director Stephen Cookson. The duo worked together on 2011 Christmas feature, My Angel.
In The Special One, Spall is to play an eccentric prisoner who is obsessed by the performance of the English football team in the World Cup. After tracking down a mysterious and powerful fellow inmate, he is presented with a chance of escaping - and watching England in the final. But there is a sting in the tail.
The project is in the final stages of financing. It is scripted by Falcon Fields and will be executive produced by Peter Keegan. Delivery is due for the summer of 2015.
Australian sales outfit Odin’s Eye has also taken on sales duties on thriller...
Revered British actor Timothy Spall (Mr. Turner) is set to star in new British prison-based comedy-dramaThe Special One, being pre-sold by Odin’s Eye at the Efm.
Spall will be reunited on the project with director Stephen Cookson. The duo worked together on 2011 Christmas feature, My Angel.
In The Special One, Spall is to play an eccentric prisoner who is obsessed by the performance of the English football team in the World Cup. After tracking down a mysterious and powerful fellow inmate, he is presented with a chance of escaping - and watching England in the final. But there is a sting in the tail.
The project is in the final stages of financing. It is scripted by Falcon Fields and will be executive produced by Peter Keegan. Delivery is due for the summer of 2015.
Australian sales outfit Odin’s Eye has also taken on sales duties on thriller...
- 2/6/2015
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
With so many films released on the run up to Halloween it’s been hard to keep up with reviews, so we’re going to play catch-up with another review round-up looking at some recent releases in brief. This time round we have reviews of Das Cabinet Des Dr. Caligari, Saints & Soldiers: The Void, The Island of Doctor Moreau, and The Pigman Murders.
Das Cabinet Des Dr. Caligari
Stars: Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Feher, Lil Dagover, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, Rudolf Lettinger | Directed by Robert Weine
Synopsis: At a local carnival in a small German town, hypnotist Dr. Caligari presents the somnambulist Cesare, who can purportedly predict the future of curious fairgoers. But at night, the doctor wakes Cesare from his sleep to enact his evil bidding…
My thoughts: Along with Last Year in Marienbad and The 400 Blows, Das Cabinet Des Dr. Caligari was one of those “important” films that I,...
Das Cabinet Des Dr. Caligari
Stars: Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Feher, Lil Dagover, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, Rudolf Lettinger | Directed by Robert Weine
Synopsis: At a local carnival in a small German town, hypnotist Dr. Caligari presents the somnambulist Cesare, who can purportedly predict the future of curious fairgoers. But at night, the doctor wakes Cesare from his sleep to enact his evil bidding…
My thoughts: Along with Last Year in Marienbad and The 400 Blows, Das Cabinet Des Dr. Caligari was one of those “important” films that I,...
- 10/18/2014
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
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