The directorial debut of Kely McClung, Blood Ties also stars Robert Pralgo and Erik Markus Schuetz. The Blood Ties movie is the winner of various film festival awards including Action Film of the Year, Best Director, Best of Festival, and Best Visual Effects, Blood Ties is DIY independent guerilla filmmaking taken to the extreme, shot with Panasonic cameras and edited with Adobe Premiere and After Effects. Full of action and martial arts, BloodTies was filmed on location in Thailand, Washington DC, Miami, Virginia, and Atlanta. These pages include film blogs from Kely McClung, film reviews, movie trailers, music samples , and information about new action movies BLOOD TIES, BLACK HEART, the short film AM SESSION, KERBEROS, Amanda McCarthy, the graphic novel THE DARK PLACES, and coming soon, the new film book and filmmaking resource at festivalwinners.com