Click the image above to see a preview of a rather neat looking movie they're trying to get off the ground in KCK.
Take a look:
KICK ME is a nightmare action comedy about the violent indignities that befall a mild-mannered high school guidance counselor who reaches out to a troubled kid - and ends up running for his life.
Gary Huggins (First Date) is the writer/director. Kim Sherman (You’re Next, V/H/S) is producing. The film stars a bunch of amazing people we can’t mention yet, and Santiago Vasquez.
Real life action-hero Santiago Vasquez – supercop, karate master, actor – has spent half his twenty years as a KCK police officer working undercover (homicide, narcotics). Born in karate-mad Venezuela, Santiago has a lifetime’s study of martial arts under his fifth-degree black belt. His first two forays into acting propelled both films into Sundance and beyond. In addition, Santiago is a poet, a painter and the quintessential modern-day sybarite.
This is why Santiago Vasquez is not only the star of KICK ME, but the star of our Kickstarter incentives.
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For more info . . . Take a look at their Kickstarter page.
It's also worth pointing out that the project also made it onto the Sundance Institute curated Kickstarter page: http://www.kickstarter.com/pages/sundanceinstitute
That's kind of a big deal given that as most of the films featured on that page end up at Sundance the following year, and that's the goal of these local moviemakers.
Take a look:
KICK ME is a nightmare action comedy about the violent indignities that befall a mild-mannered high school guidance counselor who reaches out to a troubled kid - and ends up running for his life.
Gary Huggins (First Date) is the writer/director. Kim Sherman (You’re Next, V/H/S) is producing. The film stars a bunch of amazing people we can’t mention yet, and Santiago Vasquez.
Real life action-hero Santiago Vasquez – supercop, karate master, actor – has spent half his twenty years as a KCK police officer working undercover (homicide, narcotics). Born in karate-mad Venezuela, Santiago has a lifetime’s study of martial arts under his fifth-degree black belt. His first two forays into acting propelled both films into Sundance and beyond. In addition, Santiago is a poet, a painter and the quintessential modern-day sybarite.
This is why Santiago Vasquez is not only the star of KICK ME, but the star of our Kickstarter incentives.
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For more info . . . Take a look at their Kickstarter page.
It's also worth pointing out that the project also made it onto the Sundance Institute curated Kickstarter page: http://www.kickstarter.com/pages/sundanceinstitute
That's kind of a big deal given that as most of the films featured on that page end up at Sundance the following year, and that's the goal of these local moviemakers.
This would be much funnier if they would have used Alonzo instead.
ReplyDeleteaw. I think it's cool they're working with officer Santiago. He is a good man and a great artist.
ReplyDeleteThis movie is going to be a huge success for Kansas City, for Latino's, for Blacks, for Women, and for Independent Filmmaking. I just donated. I hope everyone else does too.
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