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Director April Wright: “They always say, once a stuntwoman, always a stuntwoman and it’s absolutely true.”

13th October 2020 by Sarah Cartland

“To know [women did these stunts] 100 and something years ago erases the question of ‘can they do it now?’ Well of course they can do it now. Look at what they did back then.” April Wright Women have been jumping from moving motorbikes onto moving trains for our movie pleasure since the 1910s. April… Director April Wright: “They always say, once a stuntwoman, always a stuntwoman and it’s absolutely true.” Read More

Filed Under: Featured Bottom 3, Interviews, Stunts Tagged With: AAA, april wright, heidi moneymaker, jadie david, jeannie epper, julie ann Johnson, lafaye baker, renae moneymaker, stuntwomen, stuntwomen the untold hollywood story

Stuntwomen: The Untold Hollywood Story 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

25th September 2020 by Sarah Cartland

The inspiring untold story about the unsung professionals, their struggles on screen to perform at the highest level, and their fight off-screen to be treated fairly and equally. Julie Ann Johnson’s entry into the stunt world in the 1960s in some ways sums up the assumptions faced by stuntwomen in one tiny anecdote: a casting… Stuntwomen: The Untold Hollywood Story Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews, Stunts Tagged With: stand up for stunts, stunts, stuntwomen

New York’s Stunt World – Training, Hustling… Oscars?

12th October 2017 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

I spent four EXHAUSTING hours in a comfy chair in Breakfall Studios’ Manhattan gym, watching superfit stunt performers training: backflips, cartwheels, throwing themselves to the ground and practicing disarming each other with prop weapons. Everyone was lovely and if I ever need to be thrown out of a window, or have a bottle smashed over… New York’s Stunt World – Training, Hustling… Oscars? Read More

Filed Under: Interviews, Stunts Tagged With: Breakfall Studios, paul varacchi, stand up for stunts, Stephen koepfer, stunt coordinators, stunt performers, stunt training, stuntmen, stunts, stuntwomen

Director Matthew Kaplowitz: Films In 5 Days, Girl Fights & Festivals

8th May 2017 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

“Honestly, I can’t say I totally understand my subjects when I first started filming them… It’s a process in life and if we take the time to do it, we learn things. That’s how these films all started with one idea, and ended with something totally different and real.”  As a storyteller Matthew Kaplowitz has a knack… Director Matthew Kaplowitz: Films In 5 Days, Girl Fights & Festivals Read More

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Fire, Fear, & Favourite Stunts – Interview With Stuntwoman Jo Lamstein

6th February 2017 by Sarah Cartland 2 Comments

“There’s a strange bond when you’ve done some crazy stuff together that ordinarily might get another maimed, and you’ve gotten each other out of it unscathed… you sort of just ‘get each other’. That is everywhere.” As a stunt performer for film and TV, Joanne Lamstein has been set on fire, fallen backwards through windows, been attacked by guard dogs,… Fire, Fear, & Favourite Stunts – Interview With Stuntwoman Jo Lamstein Read More

Filed Under: Featured Bottom 3, Interviews, Stunts Tagged With: body double, burn, falls, films, full burn, jo lamstein, Joanne Lamstein, new york, NYC, partial burn, safety, stunt coordinator, stunt double, stunt performer, stunt performer interview, stunt safety, stunt work, stunts, stunts in films, stunts on tv, stuntwoman, stuntwoman interview, stuntwomen, tv

Coming Out Of The Shadows – interview with director & rookie stuntman Steve Koepfer

21st January 2017 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

*** Check out my later interview with Stephen about his work on John Wick 3: Parabellum *** “A film set is a living organism. Something as simple as slowly driving a car 20 feet as part of this constellation of activity can be very intimidating if you have never functioned in that space before.” Steve… Coming Out Of The Shadows – interview with director & rookie stuntman Steve Koepfer Read More

Filed Under: Interviews, Stunts Tagged With: concrete and crashpads, documentary, falling, fighting, film, interview with a stuntman, john wick 2, martial arts, new york, SAG-AFTRA, short film, steve koepfer, stunt coordinator, stunt work, stuntman, stunts, stuntwomen, tv

Teaser Trailer For Concrete And Crashpads Shows Hidden Life Of New York’s Stunt Performers

17th January 2017 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

Short film trailer

As a stuntwoman says in the voiceover: “If they see us somebody’s doing something wrong… But we shouldn’t be pushed aside.” In this teaser trailer for short film Concrete And Crashpads – Stunts in New York, from co-directors Stephen Koepfer and Matthew Kaplowitz, we get to see stunt performers getting ready for, and performing their roles in… Teaser Trailer For Concrete And Crashpads Shows Hidden Life Of New York’s Stunt Performers Read More

Filed Under: Stunts, Trailers Tagged With: Anthony Hoang, Chazz Menendez, film stunts, Frederico Berte, Hannah D Scott, Joanne Lamstein, Mack Kuhr, Matthew Kaplowitz, movie stunts, new york, NYC, Stephen koepfer, stunt coordinators, stunt performers, stuntmen, stunts, stuntwomen

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