Actionfest, the world’s first film festival for action films inaugural edition in Asheville, NC this April 15-18.

Posted on | April 15, 2010 | No Comments

Actionfest, the world’s first film festival for action films starts today!

Action cinema finally has a home at Actionfest, the world’s only film festival devoted exclusively to action films. Actionfest celebrates the genre by showcasing the latest and the best in action cinema from all over the world for four wild days at the Carolina Asheville in beautiful, Asheville, NC. We’re out to show that action films can not only be art, but they’re one of the best forms of pure cinema there is. From crazy martial arts films from Thailand to British crime thrillers and to the latest in Hong Kong action, action films are a universal language, and we’re out to prove that they can excite any audience in any place in any language. Actionfest will bring to Asheville some of the most exciting, original, even daring action films being made today, in addition to screening new Hollywood blockbusters and fresh indies. For more details please visit: http://actionfest.com

Featuring World Premiere Of:

OPERATION: ENDGAME (World Premiere) – Zack Galifanakis, Rob Corddry, Ving Rhames, and Emile De Raven star in this new comedy thriller about two teams of assassins locked in an underground facility, each out to discover who murdered their boss before they’re all offed. (Courtesy of Anchor Bay Entertainment)

A Chuck Norris Retrospective

CODE OF SILENCE (1985) – Chuck Norris’ most critically acclaimed film cast him as Chicago cop Eddie Cusack, who battles mobsters and corrupt cops in this outstanding police thriller from director Andrew Davis (THE FUGITIVE)

BRADDOCK: MISSING IN ACTION III – Chuck Norris teams with brother Aaron Norris (co-founder of ActionFest) for the third film in the MISSING IN ACTION series, where Col. James Braddock goes back to Vietnam to rescue his Amer-Asian son in this little-seen sequel, Chuck’s personal favorite of the series.

ActionFest will wrap up its inaugural edition with a killer party on Sunday, April 18, featuring Chuck Norris and Asheville’s own The Reigning Sound! Be there to see Chuck Norris get his Lifetime Achievement award, followed by the amazing rock ‘n’ roll of The Reigning Sound at The Orange Peel, 101 Biltmore Avenue in Asheville. In addition to all this, we’ll have the winners of the first-ever game of “Chuckeoke” and we’ll bestow our 2010 movie awards, too. Tickets for this event are $25 and are on sale now at The Orange Peel’s website

For more details please visit: http://actionfest.com

View the film schedule: http://www.actionfest.com/films_schedule.html

Become a fan on Facebook: http://twitter.com/Actionfest

Download to the jeans ad and video assets: ftp://ftp.mprm.com/Actionfest

View the explosive mash-up Actionfest offical trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=495rw1DGvOM&feature=related

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