Nationality Australian Movies Change of Our Lives | ||
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Full Name Trần Vũ Hồng Phương Born 30 January 1985 Brisbane, Australia Known for Actress, producer, director Awards 2016 Breakout Female Action Star at Action on Film Fest Website | ||
Maria tran action fight reel
Maria Tran (born January 30, 1985) is an Australian-born Vietnamese actress, martial artist, producer and director. She is known for developing the martial arts action film genre in Australia via the Asian diaspora communities of Western Sydney through her shorts such as Hit Girls, Gaffa, Enter The Dojo; her contributions on Australian television; Maximum Choppage and movies outside of Australia; Roger Corman's Fist of the Dragon, Death Mist and Vietnamese action blockbuster Tracer. Tran is pivotal to the creative development of the Australian Vietnamese film movement that challenges gender stereotypes and the exploration of "female action".
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- Maria tran action fight reel
- Maria tran fight action reel
- Early life
- Community work
- Film making career
- Acting career
- Awards
- References
Maria tran fight action reel
Early life
Tran was born and raised in Brisbane, Australia. She moved a lot during her childhood years as her migrant parents were looking for work. She went to Dinmore State School, Camira State School and then moved to Sydney and attended Villawood Public School, Fairfield West Public School and attended Westfields Sports High School, Sunnybank High School, Canley Vale High School before graduating in 2002. She studied at the University of Western Sydney and graduated with a bachelor's degree in Psychology in 2007.
While growing up and watching action comedies by Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Michelle Yeoh and Cynthia Rothrock and during her university years, she collaborated on a local filmmaker; Timothy Ly and other Western Sydney filmmakers and made Australia’s first kung fu urban action movie “Maximum Choppage: Round 2”. Despite being shot on a handy cam and no good sound was recorded, critics have praised it for its fight choreography and comic timing.
Community work
In 2007, Maria enrolled in a free community film making workshop called the Youth Digital Cultures film program through Information & Cultural Exchange (ICE). She completed it and took over the coordinator's role and worked as an educator running programs for at risk young people from culturally diverse backgrounds. She has guest lectured several instances at the Australian National University on filmmaking and digital media. In 2013, Tran directed her first theatre production working with students from Fairfield High School and Lurnea High School called "Press Play"; a multimedia and interactive journey of young people from migrant backgrounds.
Maria Tran was elected as vice-president (External Affairs) for the Vietnamese Community of Australia - New South Wales (VCA-NSW) from 2013-2015. She volunteered in various capacities and was invited to speak at the 2014 National Youth Vietnamese Conference held in Melbourne on the issues of Vietnamese-Australians in film, television and the media.
Film making career
In 2008, Maria's documentary-drama Happy Dent won Shortcuts Film Festival for Best Film and Achievement in Directing. This award lead her to a meeting with a TV network executive and she went on to make TV micro series "Downtown Rumble", 6 part kung fu action micro series which aired at the end of that year.
In 2009, Maria was awarded the Metroscreen Multicultural Mentorship Scheme for her short film script "A Little Dream", which was granted seed funding and Maria directed the film with the mentorship by Khoa Do.
In 2011, Maria pursued documentary filmmaking with her quirky self transmedia documentary "Quest for Jackie!" which is about a young girl's filmmaking plight as well as meeting her action idol; Jackie Chan. She travel to Brisbane, Darwin, Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Tasmania in 21 days to connect with Jackie Chan fans and stories of the "underdog". With hundreds of hours of footage, this project remains incomplete. In July, 2016, Screen NSW gave Maria a stunt attachment position on board of Jackie Chan's movie "Bleeding Steel" as it shoots in Sydney.She has been learning from the Jackie Chan Stunt Team and has seen Jackie, but has yet to officially meet him and complete her documentary.
She was also the 2011 NSW State Champion and represented the state at National Film Pitching Competition held at Metroscreen.
In 2012, she directed and produced many short action films with Trung Ly and Adrian Castro with subsequent works such as Enter The Dojo, Gaffa, and award winning action comedy Hit Girls; which she wrote, produced and directed. Maria was also a recipient of the Screen NSW Emerging Producer Placement in the same year.
In 2013, she was approached by Cancer Council and Information & Cultural Exchange (ICE) to produced and directed the movie Change of Our Lives. The film was officially selected for the Viet Film Festival 2014.
Maria worked on Roger Corman's mixed martial arts movie Fist of the Dragon in Nanhai, China as killer assassin "Zhen" as well as fight supervisor for fight choreographer Trung Ly and director Antony Szeto in 2014.
In 2015, Maria flew over to Vietnam to be part of the making of Vietnamese action blockbuster Tracer/ Truy Sat. She played female antagonist "Phuong Lua" and executed spectacular fight sequences against Vietnam's leading actress Truong Ngoc Anh.
Currently she is writing an original screenplay for a Vietnamese historical epic The Drums of Me Linh as well as action comedy Fury of the Far East; combining martial arts expertise and the supernatural, was awarded seed funding from ICE's Produce Perfect program to be developed into a proof of concept for television.
Maria occasionally teaches at AFTRS via the Open Program in Stage Combat/ Fight Choreography and the holiday filmmaking programs and run workshops in regional NSW.