Michael Hoad

Michael is an actor, director, an award winning action director and life long martial artist. He has worked as an Action Director on a number of feature films with Proportion Productions. Including the Lionsgate Entertainment film "The Gardener" starring action legend Gary Daniels and Robert Bronzi. He has played lead role of Van Helsing in Jagged Edge Production's "Wrath of Van Helsing". Also he played the lead character Carl in Jagged Edge Production's "Easter Bunny Massacre". He has performed as a Stunt performer alongside Bollywood superstar Tiger Shroff on "Heropanti 2" and worked as an Actor and Special Action Performer in numerous Blockbuster titles such as 'Mission Impossible 7', 'Jurassic World', 'Transformers: The Last Knight' and 'Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker'. His career started when he played a Londinium Fighter on Guy Ritchie's 'King Arthur: Legend of The Sword'. He is a life-long martial artist, and started martial arts in 1998 in kickboxing and quickly became the youngest black belt in his school's history at the age of 18. He has won amateur competitions in Muay Thai, Japanese Jiu Jitsu and Sport Karate. He is also a Brazillain Jiu Jitsu Blue belt under Dickie Martin of Carlson Gracie. He currently studies Hapkido and the Korean sword and Archery art Kummooyeh 'The Way of The Sword' under Master Daeman Sung (7th Dan Hapkido, former Korean Special Forces as a military intelligence officer). He studied Directing at London Film School and is also the founder of Lost Boys Films, a film production company that specializes in martial arts action cinema and cinematic commercials. Lost Boys Films helps at-risk young men start in the film industry and get away from gang culture. Michael believes that the power of story can empower and transform people's lives. His directorial debut short film "Insurrection" won awards for Best Action and Best Sound at the Top Indie Film Festival, was a finalist at Urban Action Showcase and officially selected for the Pinewood Studios' Lift Off Sessions. His second film "Blood Choke Retribution" Won best action at the International Action Film Awards.