Dear Urban Action Showcase International Action Film Festival,

Congratulations! Your festival has ranked as one of the Top 100 Best Reviewed Festivals on FilmFreeway for the month of February!

According to reviews from real FilmFreeway users, your festival ranks in the top 2% of more than 6,000 film festivals and creative contests around the world. No doubt, this ranking is a testament to the countless hours of hard work and care that you and your staff have devoted to creating such a wonderful event.

We’re especially proud to be partnered with amazing events like yours that help independent film continue to thrive.

You are the reason for our sucess!
Thank you UASE Staff, Volunteers, Filmmakers, Attendees, UASE Family and Cinemax for giving the Urban Action Showcase and Expo the opportunity to celebrate and magnify multicultural Heroic images reflecting diversity in media. Your support allows us to inspire and motivate excellence as we strive to change the dynamics of Heroic images in mainstream media. Thank you to everyone who supports our Diversity in Action Initiative which is manifested through our UAS International Action Film Festival platform featuring the Cinemax Action Short Film Competition, the Urban Action Expo and Urban Action Showcase Honoree and Tribute Awards platforms. We will continue to inform, educate, expose and facilitate new opportunities for content creators presenting fresh ideas and diverse perspectives to the world. Thank you all for helping us become part of FilmFreeway exclusive Top 100 Best Reviewed Festivals 2 years in a row. May our zeal for this year's event reveal another level of our commitment to excellence in Action entertainment!

Black Panther has become a billion dollar box office phenomenon (Variety, Forbes). I am excited to see the residual effects this success has on diversity and new content as it pertains to heroes of color. If nothing else Black Panther's success has proven that the world is ripe for change and won't settle for anything else!
​
​The Urban Action Showcase and Expo is the premier Action entertainment platform celebrating diversity and the multicultural achievements within the blockbuster Action genre magnifying heroic content reflecting images of color. The UASE provides exposure, informational and educational opportunities as well as distribution for Action based content creators who's content reflects multicultural images and interests. The UASE's UAS International Action Film Festival featuring the Cinemax Action Short Film Competition Call 4 Entries begins March 1st through August 31st, 2018. The UASE takes place this Fall November 9th at HBO and November 10th at AMC Empire 25 Theaters where we will celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Blade the first Marvel African American lead and R rated Super Hero movie, the 30th Anniversary of Bloodsport and over 40 years of Action cinema in a 14 hour Action Megathon! Join the UASE Diversity in Action Initiative and help us change the dynamics of mainstream media as we infuse the market place with Heroic images that reflect multicultural image and interests by pre-purchasing your ticket for yourself or a friend today. 
​
​Here are some links to cast interviews that I found very informative and helped shaped the perspective from which the Black Panther Movie was created. Interviews: 1, 2, 3, 4

Article written by Demetrius Angelo the Founder and Executive Producer of the Urban Action Showcase and Expo