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Gravitas Ventures has picked up the North American rights for a day-and-date release of Insight, an action film produced and directed by Livi Zheng. Ken Zheng wrote the screenplay and stars alongside Madeline Zima, Sean Patrick Flanery, John Savage, Adam Huss, Tony Todd, and Keith David.

Set to be released on March 12, the film follows Jian (Ken Zheng), a counter-terrorism agent who blends his skills as a martial artist and clairvoyant to bring the world’s most nefarious individuals to justice. This lone wolf is forced to make an unexpected detour to Los Angeles upon receipt of the devastating news of a cover up surrounding his brother’s alleged suicide. With the reluctant help of LAPD detectives, Abby (Zima), Carl (Todd), and Captain Duke (David), the unlikely group becomes involved in the investigation. Jian and Abby fight against a high-tech criminal (Flanery) looking to exploit the brothers’ gifts in his quest for power.

Almost nothing makes sense in Brush With Danger, a bewilderingly incompetent and inexplicably racist Indonesian action film. Written, directed, and produced by stars Livi and Ken Zheng, Brush With Danger pits sibling immigrants Alice and Ken Qiang against wealthy art forger-cum-underground fight manager Justus Sullivan (Norman Newkirk). Being the film's token evil white dude, Sullivan tries to trick the Qiangs into giving him kickboxing purse money and forged paintings after he sees Ken demonstrate his martial arts skills at a Seattle street fair while Alice struggles to sell her — in Ken's words — "Asian art." Ken's clueless but sincere description of his sister's work is not the Zhengs' attempt at criticizing immigrants' capitulation to natives' apat...