12/22/2021
JUSTIN WANG POWELL INTERVIEWED BY UK FIGHTING SPIRIT FILM FESTIVAL (PART TWO)
12/17/2021
JUSTIN WANG POWELL INTERVIEWED BY UK FIGHTING SPIRIT FILM FESTIVAL (PART ONE)
JUSTIN WANG POWELL INTERVIEWED BY THE DAILY TEXAN
10/13/2021
Justin Powell grew up in Beijing, China, watching martial arts and action films. Inspired by the films he watched as a kid and his own experience in martial arts, he decided to start making his own action films in 2019.
“Falling Sparrow,” a Wuxia or Chinese martial fantasy film, follows a young girl raised by her mother in the American wilderness, who goes on an adventure to seek revenge against her uncle who stole her family sword. Shot in 2020, the film started making rounds in the 2021 festival circuit...
10/13/2021
Justin Wang Powell’s “Falling Sparrow”, which recently won a Special Jury Award at Waco’s Deep in the Heart Film Festival, offers something one doesn’t expect to see in a film festival short. Elaborately choreographed martial arts…to the death. And that’s not the only unexpected aspect. It begins in what could easily be the Old West, albeit one where a menacing man in samurai shoulder armor shows up to retrieve a family sword and is rebuffed. Years pass, but at first it seems like centuries, as the action cuts to a modern MMA gym. But no…
08/14/2021