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Actor, Producer, Director, Martial Artist and Swordsman Anthony De Longis Discusses Latest Film Blood Trail – Part Two on EOE

Blood Trail – Part Two Continues the Story of the Award-winning Blood Trail – Part One

(Los Angeles, CA) Dawna Lee Heising and John Cox of Eye on Entertainment filmed a segment of the show with multi-talented filmmaker and fight choreographer Anthony De Longis in Hollywood, CA in June 2011. De Longis discussed his storied career and his Blood Trail movies. In 2010, Blood Trail – Part One took first place in the Action On Film (AOF) Festival. The award-winning Blood Trail story continues with Blood Trail – Part Two. It's an epic western from action and weapons legend Anthony De Longis. After receiving such a great audience response for Blood Trail, De Longis decided to move ahead and film Part Two to his award winning short film. Blood Trail – Part Two is being produced by De Longis, Matt Dean and Mary De Longis.

The story of Blood Trail – Part One is: A young man's life is destroyed when his wife is murdered and he seeks vengeance. While hunting the villains down, Kendall accidentally kills an innocent woman. He himself is then hunted down by the man that was once his teacher. Blood Trail – Part Two picks up where the first short film left off. De Longis is returning home after capturing his rogue student. But everything is not what it seems. Ambushed on the trail, De Longis discovers that his student may have been set up and there is a greater villainy at work.

De Longis is one of the great action directors and fight choreographers in Hollywood. After working with hundreds of Hollywood's best actors from Tom Cruise to Harrison Ford and having fought the legendary Jet Li, it was time for De Longis to break out on his own and create this memorable, thrilling and action packed western film. Set in Texas in the mid 1800's, Blood Trail tells the story of Love, murder, revenge and justice. It opens with beautiful vistas and a somber tone, and then quickly escalates into epic western battles that will feature Anthony's weapon of choice - the Bullwhip.

De Longis is well known for his recurring role during the first two seasons of the TV series Star Trek: Voyager, as First Maje Jal Culluh, leader of the Kazon-Nistrim. A very experienced swordsman, he is also known for the his roles on Highlander: The Series, as Lymon Kurlow in the third season of episode "Blackmail," and as Ottavio Consone in the fifth season episode "Duende." A martial artist and weapon master in several disciplines, he played a swordsman opposite Jet Li in the 2006 martial arts epic Fearless, and gave Harrison Ford extensive whip training for the 2008 film Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. He also taught Michelle Pfeiffer how to use the bullwhip for her role as Catwoman in 1992.

De Longis also provided the voice of Marshal Leigh Johnson in Rockstars 2010 video game Red Dead Redemption. De Longis' best known film role was as the character Blade in the 1987 film Masters of the Universe, in which he was also Frank Langella's stunt double. Another memorable role was as knife-in-the-boot bad guy Gary Ketchum in "Road House," performing featured fights against Patrick Swayze's Dalton.

He appeared as Claus Van Zandt in 1985 on the soap opera Days of our Lives, and as Leo Mitchell in 1989 on Santa Barbara. He has also made guest appearances on many other TV series, including Battlestar Galactica (original series), V, Babylon 5, Queen of Swords, and MacGyver. De Longis provided his voice in a Star Trek video game, and was the voice actor as the main antagonist Lord Zygon in Starchaser: The Legend of Orin on 1985 film.

Resources:

http://www.indiegogo.com/Blood-Trail-Part-2

http://www.eyeonentertainment.tv

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN5CNM-OeA4

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3148014