REBUILDING THE SOUL

GENRE : Coming of Age/Humor/Drama

COMPARISON : The Karate Kid (Hip Hop Style)

LOGLINE : A carefree, young, martial artist survives a high school shooting by killing the gunmen, but loses several close friends. His parents send him to the Philippines for the summer where his grandfather is building a martial arts center ... and starts rebuilding his grandson’s will to live.

Synopsis :

The life of a humorous, California martial artist of mixed heritage (African American/Filipino) is shattered after he survives a high school shooting by killing the gunmen, but loses close friends and sweetheart in the tragedy.

Seeing their son depressed, his parents decide to send him to the Philippines for the summer in order to keep his mind off of this all-too-often, real life occurrence.

His grandfather (a master of Filipino fighting arts) is building a martial arts institute in the deep countryside and could use the help. Culture shock and nightmares slowly fade away as he begins to learn his roots from Grandpa, fit in with his peers and even experience some romance with a fierce but beautiful female fighter. Soon he is his old, wise-cracking self again.

His world is rocked when a strange tourist agency opens up nearby and the corpses of local boys start to appear near the institute. Can our hero stop the killing again?