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ok, I don’t mind. I would hate to sit on my death
bed regretting that I’ve never tried to pursue my
dream. The movie industry is very challenging,
you get many rejections, sometimes you feel like
just throwing a towel. You really have to have
NOT TO GIVE UP and YES I CAN ATTITUDE.
Every famous person had to go through it and
as Sylvester Stallone says: It doesn’t matter how
many times you get knocked down but important
is how many times you get up and fight again for
what you want. My dear friend Danny Mantilla
and I are preparing a feature movie for several
years now. We have a great inspirational script,
great people behind us but to be honest what we
are lacking of is the ability to raise money for
the project. At this point we are so far the closed
as we’ve ever been with some key financial peo-
ple so if everything goes the way we hope for we
will start shooting our movie in year 2020.

WHERE IS YOUR MOVE CAREER NOW?

I did some small movie projects for which I re-
ceived several movie awards. It is a great start,
one step at time, right? This year I received
“BREAKOUT ACTION STAR” award at AOF /
Action On Film International Film Festival/ in
Las Vegas. AOF is an amazing film festival run
by incredible Del Weston. I met there many of
my favorite action movie celebrities like James
Lew, Michael de Pasquale Jr, Cynthia Rothrock,
Keith Vitally, Billy Blanks, Mathias Hues,…… It
is just amazing I got to meet my heroes in person.
Of course, growing up I also looked up to Bru-
ce Lee, Jackie Chan, JCVD, Phillip Rhee, Kie-
th Cook, …. without them knowing me all these
guys motivated me to become the best martial
artist I could be. I’m so thankful to them. My
dream is to do the same for the younger genera-
tion. To motivate them to do not only better but
exceptionally great in whatever they do. I wasn’t
the most talented kid but through very hard work
I become better and better and even overachie-
ved the most talented people.

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