Uri L. Schwarz

Uri's award-winning directorial debut, "Hong Kong Rebels" (Stories Forlorn) (2015), which he also produced, played in 8 fests and took home awards for Best Director and Best Narrative Feature among other accolades. It is available on VOD in US/UK/HK, as well as iTunes and online. He served as a co-producer on the feature film "Lady Bloodfight" (2016) from Voltage Pictures. He also co-produced and DOP'd the feature, "Drop In Drop Out: 11 Miles to Paradise", which won the Jamaica Intl. Reggae Festival (2011) and was in competition in others. His short film "Voluspa", on which he served as director and DoP, won at The New York Intl. Film Festival in New York and LA (2003). He was the cinematographer and exec. producer on the short "Bums in the Mist", which was in competition at the HBO US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen (2002). He independently produced, directed and DoP'd the series "Girls Fight Club" (2007), in Las Vegas, which stars past UFC fighters including Chuck Liddell, Tito Ortiz (aired on FX Network in Asia among many other Asian networks). Uri graduated from Emerson College, Boston, with a B.F.A. in film (Cum Laude) in 2001 and has worked in television and film, in various capacities in Copenhagen, Denmark and Hong Kong, where he was born and grew up, respectively, as well as in the United States.