REVERSE | Action Comedy Short | A time travelling hitman tries to fix his broken relationship.
A hardened, time-travelling, hitman reluctantly chooses between eliminating his high-profile target or stopping the painful (and pivotal) heartbreak of his younger self happening across the room.
Made with the 16th edition of Vancouver Asian Film Festival's Mighty Asian Moviemaking Marathon!
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Directed and edited by Josh Aries
Story by Paolo Valdes
Screenplay by Paolo Valdes, Josh Aries, and Curtis Lum
Produced with Dear Hero Studios x SOON Films
Executive Producers - Curtis Lum, Milton Ng, Faraz Masoodi, Marc Yungco Rorelee Tio
Producers - Raymond Tat, Nightingale, Paolo Valdes
Associate Producer - Akio Tyler
Director of Photography - Marc Yungco
Starring Curtis Lum as Onyx Lam
Donna Benedicto as Angelica
Lissa Neptuno as Madame Midnight
CAST
Marshall Bingham as Nero
Hoger Abbas as Hitam
Somnang "Mao" Chay as Qara
Leslie Kwan as Baki
Isabel Birch as young Hope
Bethany Brown as Hope
Favour Onukwa as Hope's Mom
Andre Scott Pal as Hope's Dad
Simon Chin as Bodyguard
Mae Belen as Dragonella
Carlo Fortin as Baddest Mothafucka in the Room
Mike Li as Customer
Jana Benoit as Dancer
Alex Love Kink as Bartender
Amanda Silvera as Singer
Clarence Au as Keyboardist
Nicholas Wong as Guitarist
Stunt Coordinator - Rorelee Tio
Fight Coordinator - Derick Vizcarra
Assistant Fight Coordinator - Mig Buenacruz
STUNTS
Vincent Nam Khai as Onyx Stunt Double
Taylor Tai
David Van Le
Stu Cooke
Chris Schmidt
Andrew Marajh
First Assistant Director - Erica Papke
Second Assistant Director - Derek Kwan
Script Supervisor - Cynthia Zhou
Production Designer - Mik Narciso
Props/Set Dec - Abby Aries
Costume Designer - Tammy Joe
Set Costumers - Jerome Insorio, Hannah Joe, Cassandra Guevara-Clark, Jared Lim
Seamstress - Bernarda Anthony
Prep Costumer - Anissa Salais
Key Hair / Make Up - Jessica Kim Lu
Assistant Hair / Make Up - Deo Rodriguez, Sakura Oyama
1st Assistant Camera - Kelly Chow
2nd Assistant Camera - Solara Dang
Gaffer - Peter Planta
Lamp Operators - Marc De Vinci, Daniel Irving
Key Grip/Board Op - Duke Nolan
Grip - Alpha Frias
BTS / Stills - Libby Olson, Richard Doromal
Sound Mixer - Alexander Klein
Boom Op - Ronald Nazal
Covid Officer / Production Assistant - Alli Ham
Production Assistant - Jeren Drew
Sound Designed by Marc Yungco and Beau Jensen
Composed by Beau Jensen
Colorist - Phoebe Titus
VFX - Tom Belding and Josh Aries
Post Sound Mixing - Marc Yungco and Beau Jensen
Bar Patrons - Beryl Liu, Hannah Joe, Cole Stracuzza, Kevin Medenilla, Richard Doromal. Cassandra Guevara-Clark, Beau Jensen, Jeffrey Liu, Josh Kim
SPECIAL THANKS
Tanya Birch + Birch Family
Phil Planta of PCU
James Gill
Joel Alvite
Lynne Lee
Regina Le
Mayumi Yoshida
Nach Dudsdeemaytha
Amanda Verhagen
Michael Vidler
Shayn Scott
Ben Fairouz
Sara Kliewer
Carlo Aguilar
Elite Cheer and Tumbling
Safe and Sound Entertainment
Bar None Nightclub
Tesh Guttikonda
Ferdinand Aries
Production Companies
Dear Hero Studios
SOON Films
SONGS:
"The End" by Riel Palace
Performed by Amanda Silvera
Produced by Clarence Au
"Never Die" By Noa Lembersky
Festival Sponsors:
MAMM16
Vancouver Asian Film Festival
Circus
UBCP
Portable Electric
Telefilm Canada
Equipment Sponsors:
Craft Cinema
Pacific Backlot
Whites
SIM International
Safe and Sound Entertainment
Bar None
Food Sponsors:
The Parlour
Sala Thai
Steam Whistle Brewery
Donair Dude
Bao Down