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Spartacus alumni American-New Zealand actor Kelvin Taylor voyage into Director Asua Han’s Cyberpunk film “The BYND”.

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Asua Han and Kelvin Taylor are proof repetition equals destined for greatness

Two creatives, from separate parts of the world crossed paths, both with over a 100+ projects under their belt, and are proof repetition equals destined for greatness. Kelvin Taylor of the International Emmy nominated “The Golden Hour” and Asua Han fresh off of working with AFK Journey and Riot Games newly launched their production company Kiirokuro Productions.

Born Asua Han, he was raised in Western Sydney, Australia, which has a striking similar upbringing in government institution neighbourhoods that birthed Kelvin Taylor before landing in Virginia Beach, VA, USA. As Dreamers, the two have a mutual understanding of positive affirmations without necessarily feeling marginalised by racial identity, but being able to visualise despite any circumstances.

Worlds apart, Taylor arrived in Bankstown, Australia in 2008 had just as Han was departing on the 2nd phase of his filmmaking journey moving to Hong Kong. 15 years onward they found themselves brought together by Han’s passion project , a dual spec and SciFi Epic. Given their expertise in our various forms, the project evolved by merging lore for African historical figure Yasuke with their love for science fiction.

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A gruelling shoot for the BYND took serval days, accompanied by Award Winning Cinematographer’s Ross Metcalfe and John Ross in the rugged serine territory of Queenstown, New Zealand. Strategising from an AirBnB to early morning hikes in the snow covered mountains was the birth of an Iconic Anti-Hero. Working the character together remotely was one aspect, however to see the end result hulking through nature and forrest became this evolution of east meets west.

By the end of the shoot, climbing mountains incredible terrain, lifetime friendships were made. With additional crew departing earlier flights, both Han and Taylor shared a love for cinema with insightful personal takes on their respective Showbiz journeys. Whilst keeping warm inside of a Kentucky Fried Chicken sharing a bucket of chicken, both discretely revealed they are both YouTubers. Eventually this would culminate into their joint-show Film Fu.

From content creation to the entertainment, their mutual gifts as artist is that they are “fans” and cinephiles. With Kiirokuro Productions, the two are able to forecast issues in advance within the film and television industry. As youth, identity politics weren’t ever at the forefront of our pursuit but it’s evident it’s been polarised and claimed as a form of progress.

Hollywood is greedy. It’s been able to socially engineer societies to favour war when it suits, but now it’s gone further into isolating audiences through identity politics. This is in addition studios and networks attempting to replicate Netflix. There is a false homogeneity in are, rather than valuing eachother for our differences or brand individuality. Not everyone has to be Netflix. Centralisation and everything being Everything under one roof kills business.

The boys shared their love for the  film market being were the arts thrive and syndication is still big business when respecting your IP or Network. Selling at 3 million an episode during syndication of 100-200 Episodes on its first run was very profitable. Kelvin explained, market by market with channels that can service your show, then you sell to streaming services. In their eyes, perhaps governments globally are trying to engineer being at home with VR Goggles and with no muscle mass, but that’s a future for a SciFi comedy.

Humans are made to connect With Kiirokuro, the human element that united Kelvin and Asua exudes in their enthusiasm for craft. They’ve got some beautiful revolutionary ideas that my NDA will not allow me to disclose that will change the film industry forever. These two understand the Business of the Business and we’re excited for the pipeline of films and The BYND in development at Kiirokuro Productions.

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