I don't normally post trailers for upcoming films but I came across this trailer for a film that might be of interest to female fight fans courtesy of Todd Brown at Twitch. The film is called Fighter and was produced in Denmark. Todd has seen the film and enjoyed it but says that the trailer misleadingly portrays it as a vigilante film when it is actually a coming of age film about a high school student secretly studying martial arts and dealing with the usual gender discrimination issues. The film was directed by Danish director Natasha Arthy who has mostly worked in Danish TV. She wisely went out and got a real championship martial artist named Semra Turan to play the lead. This is her film debut. Another key element is that the choreography was done by Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon's Xian Gao. So it might be a pretty good film. Fighter premiered at this year's Berlin Film Festival. It will be released on DVD in the UK in February and has been picked up for distribution in the US by IFC Films. They haven't announced a DVD release date yet. I don't expect a theatrical release. So check out the trailer and keep your eyes peeled for Fighter.
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