Christian "Kang" Bachini in the press

Christian Bachini has been taking on multiple martial arts film projects, from a bit part in IP Man 2, to the lead role in some indie film shorts and features.  He was recently recognized for this with and interview by "in-Kungfu" website.

 Christian "Kang" Bachini and Director Richard Chung interviewed by Chinese Martial Arts Website "In-KungFu" Watch the Interview. Christian is making a name for himself as an international martial arts superstar. 

http://in-kungfu.com/video/view.aspx?about=video&id=1904 or read in the link http://in-kungfu.com/News/view.aspx?id=1903
Shanghai kungfu film to break industry stereotypesLarge  Medium  SmallSource: In-Kungfuposted on: July 13, 2010*       For the first time on screen, a Western martial artist is the protagonist in a Chinese-set kungfu movie. Until now, Western actors have been depicted as villains in the East… and vice-versa in the West. This is totally wrong.”These are the words actor Christian Bachini delivered when asked about the purpose of his and director Richard Chung’s new film,Deficit: The Silent Revenge, in a June interview with In-Kungfu.  (Watch the interview here.)Deficit breaks many of the stereotypical and cliché boundaries by which Hollywood and Hong Kong martial arts movies are often confined. It features an international cast in the highly atypical setting of modern-day Shanghai, showcases contemporary martial arts styles, abandons the conventional theme of revenge and most laudably, boasts a full cast of professional martial artists instead of the usual hunky brutes with minimal skill. For all its universal appeal, the film owes much credit to the conscious effort of Chung and Bachini who draw upon their own rich cultural influences.Richard Chung grew up between the United States and Taiwan and worked in Hollywood for five years before establishing himself in the Eastern market. “As a Chinese-American, I wanted to expand myself as an international filmmaker,” he explains, “[Shanghai] deserves its own action film just like Paris, Hong Kong, Los Angeles and New York.”Similarly, Christian Bachini moved to Shanghai from Italy last year to pursue a career in martial arts films. With an extensive martial arts background that includes boxing, Taekwondo, Jujitsu, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, karate, MMA, animal styles, kungfu, Eskrima, Capoeira, and Silat, Bachini easily stands out from other action film actors. He aims to merge his diverse training into one fighting style rather than switching between different styles during action choreography. The result of this fusion is especially admirable in the duo’s high-intensity short film, “Kang”: The New Legend Begins.In the feature film Deficit, however, martial arts transcend action and become a language of their own. The storyline is well-developed: a deaf martial artist working at his uncle’s warehouse in China is thrown into the crossfire of gang warfare when the woman he secretly loves is kidnapped. Despite the odds stacked against him, the hero communicates through a mastery of martial arts while tracing her whereabouts.Yet the greatest difference between Deficit and martial arts movies of the past is its appeal to the international audience. Chung, who is also the screenwriter, makes masterful use of universal principles so that the viewer can understand the hero on a personal level and relate to his struggle.Chung adds, “We can’t just say ‘[the main character] is Chinese’ or ‘he’s Italian.’ The key theme of my film is that I want to make martial arts a universal language so people can just say ‘he’s a martial artist’…That’s why I write him into a deaf character, so the audience can really focus on him as a person and not on the language he speaks.”As the lead actor and action director, Bachini integrates the mood of Chung’s scenes into action sequences that are relevant to an already emotionally-invested audience. In this respect, Deficit departs from the haphazard composition of meaningless fight scenes that often plagues action movies. Martial arts are truly regarded as an art in Deficit and the film goes a long way to promote the sport worldwide.In achieving this end, Bachini admits it takes a lot of dedication to play his dynamic character but that he is able to incorporate martial arts philosophies representative of the entire world in his acting. He also reveals a personal philosophy (aptly named “Kang” for the Chinese word meaning “to counter and resist”) which inspires him to face all obstacles with courage and strength.Revealing the fact that he filmed the short film Kang with a torn ACL, Bachini reiterates that he has to fight against fear and rely on his skills to achieve his goals, “It’s inside my soul. I will never surrender in front of any problem.” They plan to resume filming Deficit after his knee surgery in the fall as an added testimony to the film’s message of strength.Currently, Chung and Bachini aim for a summer 2011 release of Deficit: The Silent Revenge. Their purpose is manifold, but ultimately they hope to create a legacy for modern-day martial arts that engages everyone through shared life experiences.“At the end, it’s really about the guy’s dream, his loneliness, and trying to find out who he is.”To find out more about Richard Chung, Christian Bachini, and the films mentioned in this article, please visit:www.silentrevengemovie.com.