 April 12-15, 2012
ActionFest is the world's first film festival devoted exclusively to action cinema, and to the people who make it possible, from filmmakers to stuntmen and fight choreographers.
Action film star and mixed martial arts legend Gina Carano is headed to Asheville as part of the city’s third ActionFest high-octane film festival. Carano — currently starring in “Haywire” with Michael Douglas, Ewan McGregor and Michael Fassbender — will get the first ActionFest Chick Norris Award as the year’s best female action star.
Created by Carolina Cinemas founder/Magnolia Pictures co-founder Bill Banowsky and famed action director and producer Aaron Norris (Missing in Action III, Walker, Texas Ranger), the festival will take place at The Carolina Asheville cinema.
The newly renovated theater features 14 screens with state-of-the-art digital and 35mm projection, plush seating, a bar stocked with over 15 local beers on tap, and sofas and loveseats in four of the auditoriums. The Carolina Asheville has reinvented the movie-going experience in Asheville and has become the most talked-about theater in Western North Carolina in less than one year of existence.
Tickets for ActionFest will go on sale in early April. Tickets can be purchased at www.actionfest.com.
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