French-Senegalese actor and producer Seydina Baldé has worn many hats across his career including World Karate Champion and stuntman on films such as Brian de Palma’s Femme Fatale and Bond movie Casino Royale, but his dream since childhood has been to be an actor.
After a dozen small parts, Baldé engineered his first starring role with the self-produced, English-language action thriller Covert Operation (aka The Borderland). The North Korean-set movie, about a bounty hunter on a mission to break prisoners out of high-security military compound, sold to Lionsgate for the U.S. and won praise from action movie fans.
A decade later, Baldé is appearing in the most ambitious production of his career, six-part show Lex Africana, which is being billed as the first martial arts-based action thriller to come out of West Africa.
Baldé plays brilliant architect and martial arts expert Gabriel Aliou Thiam who returns after a...
After a dozen small parts, Baldé engineered his first starring role with the self-produced, English-language action thriller Covert Operation (aka The Borderland). The North Korean-set movie, about a bounty hunter on a mission to break prisoners out of high-security military compound, sold to Lionsgate for the U.S. and won praise from action movie fans.
A decade later, Baldé is appearing in the most ambitious production of his career, six-part show Lex Africana, which is being billed as the first martial arts-based action thriller to come out of West Africa.
Baldé plays brilliant architect and martial arts expert Gabriel Aliou Thiam who returns after a...
- 5/7/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Covert Operation, a.k.a. The Borderland, is one of those valiant attempts to launch a film career for a legitimate martial artist. Sedina Balde, former World and European karate champion, stars as a bounty hunter granted his freedom on the condition that he can rescue prisoners from a North Korean military compound. The film is by turns action and comedy, but Sedina is no Van Damme. While both share a heavy accent that impairs their English-language performances, the latter had a certain inexplicable on-screen quality that catapulted him to superstar status. Sedina is in a decidedly different group, more closely comparable to the likes of WWE’s deluge of screen stinkers.
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- 12/3/2014
- by Kyle North
- JustPressPlay.net
Rhi will distributing a television mini-series entitled "The Phantom" to SyFy with a premiere for the show beginning June 20th. Two parts will be featured on the 20th and fans of heroes who take on the criminal underworld will want to tune in. The series full synopsis and location on SyFy can be found below.
The synopsis for "The Phantom" here:
"Young urban daredevil Kit Walker finds himself recruited by a secret organization, unveiling a heritage he never could have dreamed possible. Revered as the twenty-first “ghost who walks,” he must now uphold and honor his ancestors’ creed—to fight crime and injustice throughout the world. But it’s a new world out there, and going up against high-tech savvy criminals will take training and discipline unlike anything bestowed on the Phantom" (Rhi)
Release Date: June 20th (Television - SyFy).
Director: Paolo Barzman.
Writers: Daniel Knauf, and Charles H. Knauf.
The synopsis for "The Phantom" here:
"Young urban daredevil Kit Walker finds himself recruited by a secret organization, unveiling a heritage he never could have dreamed possible. Revered as the twenty-first “ghost who walks,” he must now uphold and honor his ancestors’ creed—to fight crime and injustice throughout the world. But it’s a new world out there, and going up against high-tech savvy criminals will take training and discipline unlike anything bestowed on the Phantom" (Rhi)
Release Date: June 20th (Television - SyFy).
Director: Paolo Barzman.
Writers: Daniel Knauf, and Charles H. Knauf.
- 5/20/2010
- by 28DaysLaterAnalysis@gmail.com (Michael Ross Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
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