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ORLANDO Fla. (May 19, 2008) --- KICKgen.com, the social networking
community for martial arts aficionados, recently selected nine-year
old De-Andre Brown of Ridgeland, S.C., and twenty-two year old
Marc Canonizado of Orlando in an online audition for feature parts
in Templar: Honor Among Thieves, a martial arts film set to begin
shooting in Austin, Texas next year.
Tracy McCoy, chief operating officer at KICKgen.com, based in
Orlando, Fla., said the event marks the first time a U.S. feature
film production has participated in an online audition for major
roles.
“KICKgen.com participated in the casting for action actors in the Innovative Renderworx film, which stars Paul Michael Bloodgood, Yesenia Garcia, Garret T. Sato, and Chance Hartman. Rene Hinojosa is directing the film, which will be produced at Spiderwood Studios in Austin,” McCoy said.
“Templar: Honor Among Thieves is a classic western tale set in the future on a distant planet,” McCoy said. “Martial arts is a principal theme and, as a leading online community for martial artists, we saw an opportunity to offer our members, who tend to be tournament champions, an opportunity to audition online for parts in the film.”
Brown, a student at Dunamis Karate Studio in Ridgeland, S.C.,
holds a black belt. Canonizado, a multiple North American Sport
Karate Association (NASKA) tournament champion, has been competing
in martial arts tournaments since the age of three.
KICKgen.com is a member of the University of Central Florida Incubation
Program at the Downtown Incubator.
For more information, please contact:
Tracy McCoy, Chief Operating Officer KICKgen.com, 407-575-0232
tracy@kickgen.com;
T
om O’Neal or Gordon Hogan, UCF Incubation Program, 407-882-0202;
Larry Vershel or Beth Payan, Larry Vershel Communications Inc.
407-644.4142 Ivershelco@aol.com
About the UCF Incubation Program
Since its founding in 1999, the UCF Incubation Program has helped
more than 100 emerging companies create over $200 million in annual
revenue and more than 800 new jobs with an average salary of $59,000.
With five facilities across the metro Orlando community, the Incubation
Program is collaboration in economic development between UCF, Orange
County, the City of Orlando, Seminole County, the City of Winter
Springs, and the Florida High Tech Corridor Council. For more information,
please visit http://www.incubator.ucf.edu.
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