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Kalani Young
Fight Choreographer

Was born in 1961 in Seoul Korea, from there he traveled around the U.S with his adopted Father who was stationed at Hawaii’s Wheeler air force base in 1966. During this time, he began to notice the art form of he had. Kalani's heroes at that time were Shields and Yarnel; a husband and wife team who he thought were the best in the world, when it came to robotics miming style. A few years later in 1973, he took notice of the dance style Campbellocking; better known today as "Locking" which he still continues to do to date. In 1976 at the age of 15 years old Kalani took on another dancing style called Boogaloo more commonly known as "Popping". The combined knowledge of dancing experiences has now grown to 110 yrs, 37 yrs roboting, 33 yrs Locking & 30 yrs Boogaloo.

His first dance group was started in 1977, called "Unfinished business" and later on in the same year joined the Group "Silver Lockers". He later on ended up playing Semi Pro football on a team called "San Mateo Sharks" in the position of Wide receiver and corner back. At that time, he was drafted by the Los Angles Raiders and placed on their practice squad, but was unable to make it on the actual playing team. In 1995 he moved back to Hawaii and soon after began teaching at the Nix performing arts center where he still teaches to date. Kalani played Simi pro football on Oahu with the team the "Leeward Chiefs" and went undefeated the whole year winning the Championship game over the current champs the "Maui Sharks" which was played in Maui. Just a few years ago Kalani began acting. He loves working on car’s and trucks, and making things with his hands; electronically and mechanically. Kalani's heroes are his parents.

Lavell Angoleiro
Capoeria/
fight choreography

Born in San Francisco California, Angoleiro has had a love of the arts, both graphic and martial, for as long as he cares to remember. Angoloeiro graduated Jefferson High in '97 and went on to discover the power of the pen when he got into creative writing and have several poems published into his school's magazine. '97 was also the year Angoleiro began studying the Afro-Brazilian art of Capoeira. Angoleiro has also traveled all over the world and has been a member of both the U.S. Army and the U.S. Navy.


Jason Tripplett
Actor

"The Karate Kid" is when Jason’s interest for the martial arts leaped into existence. He never took martial arts as a kid, but basically developed his initial ability by watching martial art flicks on television. Jean Claude Van Damme was a martial arts idol long enough for Jason to develop his similar style like kicks. It wasn’t until the age of 16 Jason took up ballet for 3 years and tae-kwon-do for 2 years, which he says is the best training ever for kicks. "I was really never into the self-defense or practical use of martial arts."

Jason’s intrigue with martial arts is its influence on the flow of bodily movement, body positioning and its artistic style. "I like doing big flashy moves, jump kicks and high kicks, the stuff that looks awesome for the camera," says Jason.

"Most people say fancy movements won’t work in a real fight". He strongly disagrees, "I believe it’s a matter of ability and timing."

Other than ballet and tae-kwon-do, he is now studying tai chi styles and wushu; further more combining the elements of acrobatics and break dancing into his training. He also has experience with mixed martial arts and weapons training.

Jason went to school for computer technology and business marketing, "hated it !!" he says. His aspirations are to do something with film and martial arts. For now he is just interested in working for free in the areas of film and production in hopes to develop all skills for the entertainment industry.


Gail BaDajos CassiDey
Actress


Jason Wong
dancer/musician/
martial artist

Jason is a 20 year old dancer/musician/martial artist. He started training capoeira 7 years ago, and has been on and off for the last few years. He started b-boying(breakdancing) and popping around the same time, and is currently involved with a dance team at Stony Brook University. He is an avid salsa dancer, and has been doing that for a little more than 2 years.He plays violin(11 years) and guitar(6 years). At the moment, he is studying in New York at Stony Brook University for a year as part of the National Student Exchange, after which he will return to Hawaii to finish up his bachelor's degree in microbiology. He is of Chinese and Hawaiian ancestry. His interests include songwriting, grappling, and sandsliding at the beach.


Jason
Actor


Cara Stevens
Actress


Chris Hoffert
actor

Chris Hoffert was born Feburary 13, 1983 in Rugby N.D. At an early age little Hoff took a liking to film. His younger years were spent glued to a TV watching show's such as Tales From the Crypt, Macgyver, and Outlaws. Watching TV and film gave way to small scale minature modeling which he still does to this day. During his high school years he attended and passed every tech class available to include; Computers, Computers II, Advanced Computers, Webpage Design, Advanced Webpage Design, Keyboarding, and Tech TV. It wasn't until his final semester his senior year when he got his first taste for production and design of filmography. Chris was part of a student lead TV production that produced a news like TV show that was aired across the school daily. Chris graduated class of 2001 at Belgrade High School in Belgrade Montana. Chris then enlisted in the Army as a UH-60 Blackhawk Helicopter Crewchief/Mechanic. Upon completion of his training he was stationed at Wheeler Army Airfield on the beautiful island of Hawaii. Chris did some minor video productions for an online gaming clan APD (Assault Paratrooper Division) using in game footage of the team. Chris deployed with the 25th ID to Afghanistan OEF V in April of 2004. It was during the latter half of the deployment that Chris realized the talent he had for film and adopted a love for the Starwars series when he shot and editted a backyard style short film using Starwars as a compass. From that day on Chris spent many hours, days, and months honing his skills and building his desire. In late May of 2005 Chris became part of JHM Productions. The rest is as they say is history. Chris has gone on to create a soon to be released online mini series titled "Blackjacks" and continues to seek out new ventures in filmmaking while deployed to Iraq in support of the war on terror. Chris is looking forward to coming home and continue working with JHM Productions.


Jason (Jedi)
Actor

Jason (stage name JEDI) has been a part of Hawaii's theatre scene for well over 10 years now. The consumate performer that he is, he also works as a DJ in some of the popular nightclubs on the island. He has spent some time in New York to try and further his pursuit in film but after 2 years without malasadas and lau lau, decide to come back to his roots. He is currently enrolled in the exercise and sports science program at Kapiolani Community College.


Zero Kazama
Fight Choreographer/
Stunt Coordinator

Born in Wakayama, Japan in 1982 in a very rural area where he was put in a wooden box instead of an incubator, his parents moved to Maui when he was a year old to run a tourism business. His inspiration to practice the martial arts came at an early age when he was watching tapes of the popular anime "Dragon Ball" and told his folks that he wanted to do what they were doing on TV. From then on, at age 6, he started practicing various martial arts starting at Tae Kwon Do, earning a black belt in the art at age 12. Finding one art too restrictive and many teachers too egomaniacal, he started learning from friends and movies and video games, even mixing what he saw at raves and nightclubs into his practice. "You can teach a language but you can't teach poetry, every individual has their own song to move to" sums up his perspective on the arts. Never too big into competitions either, he wondered "why the f*ck are these people so angry?" going to tournaments at an early age.

He has been living in Oahu for the last three years, doing healing/energetic work for a living and fire dancing (which he learned from a group of naked, hallucinating hippies on Maui) part time, mixing martial arts with non-traditional fire-spinning, often doing performances with the Hawaii Fire Tribe. Presently he is pursuing his acting and stuntman career and plans to relocate to Los Angeles to position himself in the heart of the entertainment industry. Also a creative writer that has written several scripts for film, he has a larger plan of making movies that don't turn people into fearful drones with a narrow perspective on life, and is tired with the nihilistic viewpoint that the Hollywood machine tries to sell to the general public. "It's like watching the news, most of the time it's about how messed up the world is, and I feel that it's strange that being a victim is normal, but looking for beauty in every situation is taboo." Zero has no formal training in acting, his perspective on it is that everyone does it in every situation in their life, and people unconsciously already have a large number of personalities they draw from daily. He does plan to take classes in the future though, he commented that it's hard to take classes (in Hawaii) since everyone teaching acting isn't a working actor, and finds it funny that people don't see the obvious paradox.

Zero would like to thank Darin Fujimori of the Hawaiian Stunt Connection (HawaiianStuntConnection.tv) for teaching him the foundations of stunt work and film choreography and getting his stunt career off the ground. Thanks bro


Seth Char
Actor


Desirae Josefoviez
Actress/
Production Assistant


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