Uri Schwarz
Directing
Biography
Uri comes from an experienced international background of film and television production. He is the writer, director and producer on the upcoming action film Viking Blood (Fluxform/ITN Films, 2019). This is his first Scandinavian produced feature film. Previously, he co-produced the feature Lady Bloodfight (Voltage Pictures, 2016) in Hong Kong. His award winning directorial debut, Stories Forlorn (Hong Kong Rebels) (Fluxform/Juxt Films, 2015), which he also produced, played in 8 fests and took home awards for Best Director and Best Narrative Feature among other accolades. It is currently available in wide VOD release in US/UK/HK, as well as iTunes and online. He co-produced and DOP'd the feature Drop In Drop Out: 11 Miles to Paradise, which won the Jamaica Intl. Reggae Festival (2011) and was in competition in others. His short film Voluspa, on which he served as director and DoP, won at The New York Intl. Film Festival in New York and LA (2003). He was the cinematographer and exec. producer on the short Bums in the Mist, which was in competition at the HBO US Comedy Arts festival in Aspen (2002). He independently produced, directed and DoP’d the series Girls Fight Club (2007), in Las Vegas, which stars past UFC fighters including Chuck Liddell & Tito Ortiz (aired on FX Network in Asia among many other Asian networks). Uri graduated from Emerson College, Boston, with a B.F.A. in film (Cum Laude) in 2001 and has worked in television and film, in various capacities in Copenhagen, Denmark and Hong Kong, where he was born and grew up, respectively, as well as in the United States.
Known For
A Hong Kong detective suffers a fatal accident involving a mysterious medallion and is transformed into an immortal warrior with superhuman powers.
The Medallion
Jane is a beautiful but troubled American girl backpacking through Japan, when her raw street fighting skills draw the attention of Oshima, Japanese karate champion, who recruits and trains her to fight in the vicious, all-female, underground martial arts tournament known as "The Kumite". After months of rigorous preparation, Jane is ready to face off against the deadliest female fighters in the world, including Ling, the Chinese apprentice of Oshima's nemesis. But other nefarious forces lie in the shadows, and Jane and Ling will have to unite on a journey that will take them from the gritty underworld of Hong Kong to the glitz of Macao, before deciding who really is the best female fighter on the planet.
Lady Bloodfight
Mass hysteria breaks-out over an alleged demonic possession in an Indiana home. Zak Bagans then buys the house, sight unseen, over the phone. He and his crew soon become the next victims of the most documented case of demonic possession in US history.
Demon House
When a viking mercenary finds himself in the middle of a battle between the old gods and the new, he decides that neither side deserves to win. And so begins an epic battle between good and evil that will decide the fate of a nation.
Viking Blood
Struggling to find answers to his brother's questionable suicide, a sixteen year old aspiring writer is lured into the underground world of Hong Kong, as the Chinese march their way over the border during the last summer under British rule, 1997.
Stories Forlorn
2035. Europe is in ruins. Traditional warfare has collapsed. Drones fail. Autonomous weapons fall silent. In the wake of a war it cannot win, NATO authorizes the unthinkable-a covert black-ops experiment on Danish soil to create a living weapon: a genetically engineered predator built to hunt, adapt, and annihilate. The project is terminated. Erased. Forgotten. Until now.