Undercut (film) explained

Undercut
Director:Stephen Reedy
Producer:Stephen Reedy
Starring:Eric Jacobus
Andy Leung
Todd Roy
Music:Anton Patzner
Cinematography:Stephen Reedy
Editing:Stephen Reedy
Eric Jacobus (Fight)
Runtime:34 minutes
Country:United States
Language:English, Cantonese
Budget:$1,500 (Estimated)

Undercut is a 2004 martial arts film written and directed by Stephen Reedy.

Synopsis

American Ninja Eric loses his job as a state employed peace officer when his job is outsourced to cheaper, cost effective Chinese labor. As if dealing with the hardships of unemployment weren't stressful enough, Ninja Dog is sick and needs expensive medicine.

Release

Undercut was released online via The Stunt People sometime in 2004. It has also been screened at WonderCon the San Diego Comic-Con and at The Metreon.

Awards

In 2006, Undercut was nominated for the mtvU Student Filmmaker Award in the 2006 MTV Movie Awards. Despite large media coverage both local and national Undercut did not win. This is likely because MTV had deleted at least a few 100,000 online votes under the suspicion that there had been foul play. MTV informed the director Stephen Reedy that there had been a voting spike that they considered to be “unorganic”. However, it should be known that the other student films did not have the same media coverage or inbuilt following that Undercut already had with followers of The Stunt People and martial arts movie fans in general.

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