NINTH LEGION PRODUCTIONS
Before the rise of the Empire... In 53 BC 10,000 Roman soldiers disappeared. The Roman 9th was the Republic's largest Legion. The fiercest and most skilled legionaries, exemplary Romans whose General and benefactor was said by both senate and citizenry, to embody the spirit of the republic and all it stood for. Many speculate the fate of the fabled Legio IX Romana, just as we at NINTH LEGION PRODUCTIONS speculate the fate of a cinema lost or forgotten, but certainly missing, much like The Roman IXth Legion, but more like the VHS tape.
Formed around the idea of a film, rather than for one. We aim to wildly invent genre pieces undeniably inspired by hazy childhood memories of Saturday morning cartoons, Kung-Fu matinees, and midnight movies. Social satires that don't shy from controversy. Darkly comic neo-genre narratives about “slasher” stalking reporters and flawed detectives battling monsters of all kinds. Those hit men with hearts of gold, morally ambiguous gunslingers and of course, that man or woman inside us all, whom just need a break from reality for 90 minutes. Visceral cinematic experience is the standard for our stories, substance + style readily recognizable as Ninth Legion Productions.
NINTH LEGION PRODUCTION STAFF
Owned and Operated
by
D.S. Foster
Yunjoong “John” Kim
Kathlyn Stefl
The company has evolved from humble beginnings in event videography, filming and editing everything from weddings to birthdays and bat mitzvahs, concerts for charity, school sports, legal depositions and even Kickstarter campaigns, to more creative content like narrative shorts, lyric videos, and live-action music videos.
D.S. Foster
Co-Founder
Project Director
Director of Photography
Writer
“My mother took me to my first Broadway show when I was about 4 or 5, but my father had taken me to the cinema every Friday after school for as long as I can remember, usually to see whatever he wanted to see. Imagine a 5-year-old kid sitting through Cats on Broadway on a Saturday afternoon, only the night before, he was sitting in a dark theater watching Anne Parillaud and Jean Reno dissolve a body in a bath tub in Luc Besson’s "La Femme Nikita"… and that movie had subtitles. It was a steady diet of genre pastiche. I pretty much knew I’d want to be a storyteller the rest of my life by the time I was 12.”
Born and raised in Queens Village, NY he was brought up on a healthy diet of private schooling, Broadway Theater, Cinema, and comic books. The Penn State University alumn, began studies in film history, genre theory, Direction and Production, and completed his college career focusing his craft on screen-writing and American cinema aesthetics. Dana graduated in 2009 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Film-Video production from Pennsylvania State University’s College of Communications.
Yunjoong "John" Kim
Co-Founder
Executive Producer
Producer
Writer
"I'll never forget the first time I saw "The Godfather""
Born in Seoul, Korea. Raised in Philadelphia, U.S.A. John grew up on American movies and Anime imports. A scholar of martial arts, he graduated from the Pennsylvania State University in 2009 with a degree in Human Development and Family Studies, however, real world experience and a developed skillset in business management led him down a different career path. With a passion and talent for filmmaking and music production, John and long-time friend, D.S. Foster formed NINTH LEGION PRODUCTIONS in 2014. The motion picture company was created for their first feature screenplay "Fight City, U.S.A." currently in development.
Katie Stefl
CFO
Executive Producer
Production Manager
Born in Seoul, Korea. Raised in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Katie is a La Salle University almuni with a degree in Integrated Science, Business and Technology. She is not focusing now on business management and event coordination.