Mike Leeder has been a supporter and contributor to the Asian movie industry for many years, and as such has earned himself something of a celebrity status amongst the fan community. We managed to grab a few minutes of Mike's time to discuss his career and just what it takes to make it in the industry today.

'Kung Fu Flid' is a new independant British martial arts film that tells the story of a thalidomide short-armed kung fu star who must rescue his wife and daughter from a group of gangsters. Phil Hobden caught up with the film's director Xavier Leret and producer Terry Stone to get the inside scoop.

Stanley Tong started his career as a stuntman before making the move into directing. He is probably best known for helming some of Jackie Chan's biggest international movies, such as 'Police Story 3' and 'First Strike'. We caught up with Stanley as he was promoting the DVD release of his most recent film, 'The Myth'.

British-born Jude Poyer has been working as an actor and stuntman for over a decade. For the majority of that time, he has been based in Hong Kong but he recently made the trip back home to work on independant UK action flick, 'Ten Dead Men'. Phil Hobden caught up with Jude to discuss his career so far.

In the past few years, Chee Keong Cheung and Mark Strange have worked on three major independent UK action movies - 'Underground’, 'Bodyguard: A New Beginning’ and ‘Displaced’. Phil Hobden caught up with the pair during a screening of one of their films at the Seni08 Show.

This episode of "Talk To Me" finds Mike chewing the fat with Steven Flynn, the man responsible for the Taiwan Cinefest in London. Flynn talks about his love for Asian cinema as well as revealing details on the festival and why we should all be opening our hearts to Taiwanese cinema.

Best known to mainstream audiences for his role as a Vietnamese Commander in 'Rambo: First Blood', Grandmaster Stephen Chang is a prolific actor who has worked on over 50 films and TV shows. Friend of FEF, Phil Hobden, caught up with Stephen to talk about his career and background in the martial arts.

When a reader contacted us to ask why the Asian movie releases seem to have dried up in the UK, FEF's Mike Banner decided to pull out all the stops to track down an answer. Using his celebrity contacts, he caught up with the UK kung fu king Toby Russell to find out the inside scoop.

As the British independant action film 'Ten Dead Men' arrives on US DVD this month, we decided to track down the people behind the flick for the inside scoop. We caught up with the the film's director, Ross Boyask and writer, Chris Regan for a double take on the creation process.

Ara Paiaya initially turned a few heads on the martial arts movie scene when his first independent feature film, 'Dubbed And Dangerous' went down a storm with the critics.  With the release of his latest movie, 'Death List' on DVD we decided to catch up with Ara to find out a little more about the project and the man himself.