'Brush With Danger' Bay Area Premiere

Photo Credit: Livi Zheng

-By Beau Behan, Film Critic & Entertainment Reporter

Filmmaker Livi Zheng’s feature debut, Brush with Danger, will have its San Francisco Bay Area premiere, on Friday, Oct 3, 2014 at the AMC Van Ness 14 and AMC Eastridge 15 theaters. Starring in the martial arts crime thriller are Livi Zheng, Ken Zheng, Norman Newkirk and Nikita Breznikov. Brush with Danger was directed, produced by Livi Zheng and co-written by Livi and her brother, Ken Zheng. Zane Thomas executive produces the film under the Sun and Moon Films banner.

Brush with Danger tells the story of a brother and sister-- Alice (Livi Zheng), an artist, and Ken (Ken Zheng) a martial arts fighter – who are forced to flee their home in China and sneak into Seattle via shipping container. As they struggle to survive on the streets, they meet an art dealer, Jutus Sullivan (Norman Newkirk) who takes interest in Alice’s paintings and agrees to sell them in his gallery. Unbeknownst to the siblings, Sullivan has an ulterior motive. What turns out to be Sullivan’s act of generosity is really a con to convince Alice into forging a long lost Van Gogh. At the end, Alice and Ken find themselves embrangled in Seattle’s criminal underworld.