Duel
Online Released: April 30th 2004
SHORT FILM
Genres: Action, Martial Arts, Drama
Origin: China
Length: 00:12:34
Rated: NR - strong violence & profanity
Director: Fabien Garcia
Production: Z Team
Budget: $200
Fight Choreographers: Fabien Garcia, Laurent "Lohan" Buson
Writers: Fabien Garcia and Fumika
Cinematographer: Fabien Garcia
Music "© Crying Avenger" Composer: Didier Buson
Editor: Fabien Garcia
Cast:
Laurent "Lohan" Buson ... Younger Brother
Fabien Garcia ... Aniki (Older Brother)
Volker Theissing ... Drug Dealer/Witness
Synopsis: A crime boss is murdered by his eldest son and his younger brother's vow to get revenge leads to a fateful duel.
Production Notes:
Duel was shot with a JVC GR D70E and a PANASONIC MX500 and a budget of about 200 (two hundred) US dollars. It was filmed on location in BEIJING, CHINA. At the beginning, the idea was to film a martial arts confrontation between Laurent "Lohan" Buson and Fabien Garcia but we quickly decided to develop a simple story around it that would serve the action. One of the originality of this film is that we decided to do it in Japanese, even though we are Caucasian and were filming in China. Beside the 2 main actors (Lohan & Fabien), the permanent crew on Duel was very limited: Fumika was in charge of the Japanese dialogue and was the main camera operator with Yannick Van Dam. A music entitled "Crying Avenger" has been composed especially for this film by Didier Buson.
Nominated at the 2007 Action On Film Festival for:
Best Action Sequence Martial Arts
Breakout Action Star - Laurent "Lohan" Buson
Breakout Action Star - Fabien Garcia
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Photos:
(by Volker Theissing and Fumika Akiyama)
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Press:
August 2005
Duel review at SteelSamurai.co.uk by Gareth Watson.
May 2004
Duel review at KungFuCinema.com by Mark Pollard. |
