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The Passion of Isabel - The Final Days​

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The production of The Passion of Isabel is now going for the last shooting days. Bea is undergoing more tortures at The Wheel for what is going to be the last sequence in the movie. I cannot say much about how the shooting is going because I wasn't told. Jac went through a horrible, difficult and painful time last week, I don't know what his mood in the set is. He's very professional and I know that he will complete the production the way he planned.

Power Plays - Before we get into her film, Barbazul, I ask Amy how she selects the topics for her productions. With a chuckle, she tells me it’s whatever she finds interesting. “Sirwinakuy, the first film I directed, was a story I started writing about fourteen years ago. I was living in Paris at the time and kind of pieced it together from a bunch of different people and relationships I observed.” The film centers on a young woman (Veronica Paintoux) who develops a dominant/submissive relationship with an older man (Jac Avila). Amy imagines her stories “as a Jungian dream in the sense that I am all of the characters,” she explains, much like children who “play act and envision different kinds of scenarios.” In other words, role-playing teaches children about relationships. Read the complete article: Amy Hesketh, Part One: A Jungian Dream
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We have a NEW SALE! Yes. The production of The Passion of Isabel will be done this week. Post production will begin Monday. The film might be ready for release sooner than expected and when we have a new release we don't have a Sale for a long time. This NEW SALE might be the last in a loooong time. To make things more interesting, we have a 15% discount on any ONE film that you get. If you get 2 films you get a 20% discount. If you get 3 or more you get a 30% discount!

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Red Room or Desperately Seeking Red Feline - The first film Amy and Jac shot together, after the Training of Jane, of course. Jane gets ahold of the classic film, Red Feline on the Cross. When she attempts to find the original location of the film, she finds more than she bargained for at the hands of The Man in Black.

 
Very interesting to read that piece about Amy, she's a fascinating person,
so much in touch with the kinds of feelings and motives I experience myself.
 
Finis Coronat Opus - A Crowning End for Isabel​

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The production of The Passion of Isabel is DONE! The expression Finis Coronat Opus came to my mind when I saw the pictures Jac sent to me this morning, some might translate it as A Crowning Success. Isabel was nailed to The Wheel and suffers more incredible torture. The position of the wheel is upright for the final scene. Isabel is no longer attached to the wheel by ropes, huge nails on her hands and feet keep her in place. Bea had a very difficult time when the wheel was at a slight angle and her body was somewhat resting on it; however, when she wasn't turning around, she was upside down for the most part of, her body supported by her ankles. She complained to Jac that it was very, very painful. She thought it would be better with her standing on the wheel. She was wrong. Bea suffered true torture for her art. The stress to her arms and legs was tremendous, her legs were trembling and it was not acting. The pain was real. Her coronation was a fitting end for the story, Bea/Anna is now theQueen of Pain And Suffering in the world of Red Feline. Will she hold the title for as long as Camille and/or Amy? We won't know until Jac and Bea hold their celebratory dinner Tuesday night, she is kind of sick now. They will have their own wrap party that day and maybe, just maybe, discuss the future of their extreme sadomasochistic collaboration. Read more of their incredible adventures at The Red Feline Club


Johnny Dear Jac and all the team members of The Passion of Isabel: Will Be a get branding torture? I am looking forward to see and hear her screaming when hot iron touch her breast! When she unconscious, I will use ice water to wake her up! Perfect!

A branding torture in film takes a lot of work. There's the building of the fire, the heating of the iron and the burning of the flesh. It took three days and something like four people to work the branding scene in Maleficarum. Jac was working alone in The Passion of Isabel, no crew to help with the effects. It was difficult enough for him to set up the tortures, resolve and work on the make-up effects of pricking and whipping, the setting of the wheel on the different ways it was set up with Bea on it, so branding was kind of extremely difficult. When we began the campaign for this film we offered the possibility of suggesting tortures and contributing towards them. There weren't many contributors and the ones we receive were only for The Wheel tortures. There was the suggestion for The Spanish Horse at one point, which was under consideration, but there wasn't enough support for it. Maybe we will produce Maleficarum II, if we have the budget for that film, of course, and that's the film where we can have some amazing branding scenes.

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Quoom And two very subjective votes: Natalie Portman and Camille from rfpix

When Jac met Natalie Portman in person in New York and saw how beautiful and small she was, as beautiful and small as Camille, he agreed with Vero who, when she saw The Professional, Portman's first role in film, she compared Natalie's character to her sister saying: she's exactly like Carmen. Carmen and Natalie are very much alike in person and they both have a mesmerising intensity in their acting. Carmen/Camille is now doing amazing Avant Gard performances in Paris. While on the subject, I have some interesting news. Apparently Vero will be joining Jac in June and for three months, she'll be coming over with her two kids and.... and... Carmen might take the time to come too for a family reunion! I'll have more news of that potentially amazing encounter as they develop.

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Picaro STUNNING! when will this masterpiece be available?

The Passion of Isabel, the STUNNING Masterpiece, will go into post production TODAY! This is what I know will happen in the next few days. Jac will go over the material, most of which has already been organised, the first sequence of the film is already edited, and he'll have an idea of how long he will need to complete post. He'll tell me then when he thinks the film can be ready. I don't want to jump ahead, but I estimate that the film will be released before June. We're releasing JUSTINE theatrically in a few weeks, we postpone the premiere for April 19th, because of all of the sad events in Jac's life that pushed our plans a few of weeks. Jac and Amy are also working on Pygmalion, they plan to have a theatrical release for it sometime between June and July of this year.

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Amy understands that her productions can be a gamble when it comes to its effects on the actors. As director she must assume some responsibility for any negative outcomes the cast might suffer as a result of filming. “So if you’re [the director] leading this person down a rabbit hole that is not nice, it’s your responsibility to care for them afterwards, make sure that they are alright and can get out of it. It often takes a lot more work than leading them into it,” Amy declares. Of course for Amy, she is often her own director and that presents further issues. “I haven’t really had much help with that in my films, so that’s the hardest part for me. I’ll chose these characters so in order to portray them I have to travel to very, very dark place inside myself. And getting out of that becomes this terribly hard work, rather difficult and painful work to create other pathways. The most difficult part for me is getting back to myself and be in a positive space, to be happy and not to be in a dark miserable place.” I mention her role in Maleficarum where she is tortured and crucified in the name of religion. It took her two months to climb out of that abyss, Amy recalls.


Amy sends her greetings from LA where she's attending a seminar, all expenses paid, with a larger role in the world of Cinema and Television in mind for the near future.

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After The Passion of Isabel ... What's Next?​

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The Passion of Isabel is in post, a process that may take a couple of months, we will not know how the new Red Feline style film will do with our fan base and its targeted market. Jac and Bea might decide to make another movie right away or they might decide to wait and see what happens to the new oeuvre. If they chose to wait and see, another film like this will not happen because other priorities are already coming up. Making The Passion of Isabel was not in Jac's plans for the year, it happened, and maybe it was a distraction from the larger projects. He took it upon himself to just do it because Bea was willing and he had all he needed. So, the new film is now a reality facing its future. Read more at The Red Feline Club http://bit.ly/2k4LLwc.

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toxicmask Hi Margot, I just wanted to say that in the last scene of The Passion of Isabel Bea looks even more BEAUTIFUL!!!

Yes, Bea is very beautiful and her acting in The Passion of Isabel is impressive. The pictures at the club, here and elsewhere, are making an impact, I believe. I say I believe because only a couple of people are commenting. There's no way for me to know for sure.


Comment at the club by J: Some very powerful and beautiful images here. I can’t say that I share Jac’s fascination with the iron belt, though. I do hope Bea decides to continue collaborating with him. I don’t think I could ever tire of gazing at her impossibly gorgeous body.

They are powerful indeed! The first cut of the movie is underway and word is that it is looking great. The iron belt was made with Amy in mind for JUSTINE, when Bea tried it on, it fit wonderfully, it had to be used, Jac loves it. In the last scene in the movie it adds a dramatic and extremely painful element to Isabel’s suffering. When I see the pictures I imagine how horrible it was for Isabel… and Bea.

Bea put a lot of herself for this movie and she’s not receiving a lot of encouragement. I will mention your great comment to her, maybe that will make her feel that it was all worth it. In the other hand, making The Passion of Isabel was both, a lot of fun and a lot of work for Jac. He could spend everyday working on more films like this with Bea, he gets to do so many impossible things with her, he brings his fantasies to life day after day, for hours at a time! They work together very well, they are in synch. However, he can't ask Bea to put herself through so much without making sure that all her suffering will mean something great at the end. They will have a talk about future plans, they might decide to do one, or two more films like The Passion of Isabel, or they might just go into something else, like the Series. She has a great role in it and I think she'll have a more engaged position in the company. We'll see.

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Eulalia Very interesting to read that piece about Amy, she's a fascinating person, so much in touch with the kinds of feelings and motives I experience myself.

I'm happy to hear you feel this way and I would love to know more about you.


The Eroticism of Torture - Finally, we talk about her fan base and I offer that part of her following must be BDSM fans who relish the eroticism of her torture scenes. Are these fans attracted to her work because of it’s perceived pornographic slant? Amy replies she doesn’t know much about pornography and doesn’t consider her films to fall under that umbrella. But she knows some fans may see her performances that way and she’s okay with their interpretation because there is “a certain niche market of people” out there who follow her. “Yeah, I have a whole fan base that buys my films. It’s pretty much split down the middle between [S/M fans] and cinephiles who like art films.” Amy welcomes all points of view and when it comes to the fetish crowd, she states, “I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that either. It’s marvellous. I wish we weren’t so condemning [of them].” Amy ‘s final thought ties everything together with a bit of wisdom. She remembers the words of a professor at Bard College where she got her undergrad degree. He related a point he learned from one of his profs: when it comes to stimulating the mind, “If it’s not sexy, it’s not art.”


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Get Training Jane! - Two sessions of Jane´s training to be a member of the Red Feline Crew. Completely improvised and unscripted! A very personal look into Jane’s evolution as an actress for Red Feline Pictures.

In Session 1, Jane is tied standing, kneeling, on the floor, and on the bed, and whipped with a Hungarian bullwhip in a hotel room in South America.

In Session 2, Jane is cuffed to a frame and whipped with a four-tailed whip. Then she's moved to the bed, restrained with her arms open, and spanked with a riding crop. Later, she´s suspended with her arms open and whipped again. In both sessions real marks are left by the whip, no special effects are used.

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Margot said:
I'm happy to hear you feel this way and I would love to know more about you.
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Thanks for the link to part 2 of the interview, even more revealing - the passage just before the text you quoted speaks to me too:

So if you’re [the director] leading this person down a rabbit hole that is not nice, it’s your responsibility to care for them afterwards, make sure that they are alright and can get out of it. It often takes a lot more work than leading them into it,” Amy declares.

Of course for Amy, she is often her own director and that presents further issues.

“I haven’t really had much help with that in my films, so that’s the hardest part for me. I’ll chose these characters so in order to portray them I have to travel to very, very dark place inside myself. And getting out of that becomes this terribly hard work, rather difficult and painful work to create other pathways.

“The most difficult part for me is getting back to myself and be in a positive space, to be happy and not to be in a dark miserable place.”

I mention her role in Maleficarum where she is tortured and crucified in the name of religion.

It took her two months to climb out of that abyss, Amy recalls.

Although I'm not an actress or film-director, I can identify very much with that journey into a 'very, very dark place inside myself',
I've done that in my writing here, in stories like The Interrogation and Punishment Centre for Girls,
and finding this place where I can share that journey in stories and poems has been a great help to me
in 'getting out' - not escaping, but coming to terms with my 'dark place', even coming to love it as a special part of me,
but one I can get out of and get on with life.
 
Waiting For Isabel​

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While the world waits for The Passion of Isabel, Jac had a bunch of meetings with members of our team, one at a time, to discuss his plans and bounce some ideas. Apparently he decided to take the bull by the horns. As a matter of fact that's how I described him to someone more than 20 years ago when things seemed to be floundering. I said to that someone that Jac is like a bull that once he puts his mind on something, nothing stops him. Soon after that we were producing the mini series and he began working with Camille on what later became the legend of Red Feline, a mini industry, so to speak. He's at it again.

This is the plan for 2017-20128: We will produce the feature films: Aventura, Maleficarum II, Dead But Dreaming II and III, Sagarnaga[/], Cabrón, and the Television Series Pachamama. And that's that, all subject to how these projects evolve during pre-production, of course. Jac's reasoning, as he explained to all who had to listen to him was that all the scripts for those projects are ready and they are all good, it should be a waste not to make them. I expect a fundraising campaign for Maleficarum II, the rest will be funded from equity investments, our funds and some deals we'll be making with a lot of people. The process of deal making already started for the series. This plan doesn't count the feature film Amy will be directing in the US this summer.

Will there be Torture in any of the new productions? Jac is kind of going the way Lamentations described it best: I am more inclined to enjoy a scene when I don't expect (because of the actress in the scene) what is coming. That facet of a GIMP related movie can be a real turn-on. I kind of agree with that. A GIMP scene, short GIMP scene, in a feature, mainstream movie or Television program, like some examples I've seen here recently, get people more excited that an entire film full of GIMP.

Except for Maleficarum II, which obviously will have GIMP in it, even a BATS scene or two, the rest of the films we're going to produce are mostly Non Gimp. Maybe there will be an unexpected, surprise GIMP scene in one or two of them. Dead But Dreaming II and III[/center] will have very, very little gimp in them if any. One reason why Dead But Dreaming is not more commercially viable is because the GIMP scenes, like the rape, the whipping and the execution are too explicit and too long. Jac is recutting that film for a wider release.

Eulalia Thanks for the link to part 2 of the interview, even more revealing - the passage just before the text you quoted speaks to me too: (...) Although I'm not an actress or film-director, I can identify very much with that journey into a 'very, very dark place inside myself', I've done that in my writing here, in stories like The Interrogation and Punishment Centre for Girls, and finding this place where I can share that journey in stories and poems has been a great help to me in 'getting out' - not escaping, but coming to terms with my 'dark place', even coming to love it as a special part of me, but one I can get out of and get on with life.

We see the obvious in the films. The body, the suffering, the hotness. We don't see what's behind the performance. Amy, Carmen, Bea, Mila, Vero, put a lot of themselves in the characters they play, not only their beautiful bodies. Their minds are a big part of the performance, they enter into dark places and it's hard for them to get out of those places at the end. Acting in our movies is a lot of intense work and takes a toll on the actresses. There's a point where they have to say 'enough is enough' and they do, which is the sane thing to do. Bea might have had enough with two films, JUSTINE and The Passion of Isabel.

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I have the data of how our films did in March. JUSTINE is the undisputed best seller, followed by Maleficarum and The Passion of Isabel, the rest lag far behind. I expect that after its release, The Passion of Isabel might match JUSTINE. However, this new film will not be in Amazon.com where JUSTINE and Maleficarum rule.

1.- JUSTINE - 300 points
2.- The Passion of Isabel - 164 points
3.- Maleficarum - 133 points
4.- Le Marquis de la Croix - 39 points
5.- BARBAZUL - 35 points
6.- Red Feline on The Cross - 34 points
7.- Dead But Dreaming - 29 points
8.- Agent X - 28 points
9.- Sirwiñakuy - 24 points
10.- FANTOM - 20 points​

The campaign for the theatrical release of JUSTINE has already started. We were surprised to learn that the trailer is already popping up on different TV channels. One critic who will be reviewing the film for a national newspaper commented to Jac that he loved the film! Jac was pleasantly surprised, of course.

Jac was interviewed for a TV program broadcasted recently where the trailer of JUSTINE was prominent. The program was about cruelty. Kubrik, Roth and Jac were used to illustrate the comments on films that deal with terror, cruelty, sadism. The entire program is below, but it's set to start almost at the end where the Trailer and interview with Jac are:


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The Via Crucis of Camille - Crux 3! - The Via Crucis of Camille continues with Crux 3 - The Slave. Camille emotes an innocent slave being whipped and crucified for an unknown transgression. She resists the pain, grimacing, trying not let out a sound, to thwart the ones who want to make her scream. Her sounds of pain, her whimpering and cries do not move her torturer who continues to whip her mercilessly, until he tires of this and crucifies her with nails through her hands and feet. An intimate study of torture and crucifixion by Camille and JJ. Another of their private videos, now available to the public for a limited time!.

 
Margot said:
We see the obvious in the films. The body, the suffering, the hotness. We don't see what's behind the performance. Amy, Carmen, Bea, Mila, Vero, put a lot of themselves in the characters they play, not only their beautiful bodies. Their minds are a big part of the performance, they enter into dark places and it's hard for them to get out of those places at the end. Acting in our movies is a lot of intense work and takes a toll on the actresses. There's a point where they have to say 'enough is enough' and they do, which is the sane thing to do. Bea might have had enough with two films,
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Yes, I can well understand that. Film-acting of any kind is tough work, but living an experience like that - even knowing you're just acting - must be psychologically demanding as well as physically. It's good that you're sensitive to the way it's affecting them. There's such a difference between actresses who are really committed and getting themselves into the experience of being tortured, and ones who are just letting their bodies be used, for the sake of being paid. Your girls are burning with commitment!
 
Waiting For Isabel - Week One​

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The Post Production of The Passion of Isabel, began its first actual week. A lot of the post production work began the day production started, but this past week was the first week where the post production of this new film was Jac's central occupation. He's also involved in the promotion of the theatrical release of JUSTINE, of course, but his mind is in the post of Passion. If all goes as this first week was, Jac might have the first cut of the film in the middle of May, if not before. I will not have an approximate release date before the end of this month.

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Executed naked Have you ever thought of taking full body casts of your actresses so you can make corpse dummies of them. That way you can really make a crux scene real by filling the dummies full of meat and red barbeque sauce so you can show them suffering and dying on the cross and then show dogs ripping their bodies to pieces as they're eaten

Once Jac was toying with the idea of making a body cast of Amy to use it in Maleficarum for the burning at the stake scene. It's always possible to do something like that for a realistic scene where a body is either ripped apart by dogs or set on fire. The issue will always be the money. Maybe we'll do something like that in Maleficarum II.

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Eulalia Yes, I can well understand that. Film-acting of any kind is tough work, but living an experience like that - even knowing you're just acting - must be psychologically demanding as well as physically. It's good that you're sensitive to the way it's affecting them. There's such a difference between actresses who are really committed and getting themselves into the experience of being tortured, and ones who are just letting their bodies be used, for the sake of being paid. Your girls are burning with commitment!

Jac was fortunate enough to meet incredibly talented, beautiful and committed actresses for his films. They all have/had an intense personal rapport with him, of course, strong enough to have a lot of trust in each other to carry out all they did and still do. The payment part did not come into discussion until they sat down to sign releases and things like that, so, it never began as a money thing. The money discussion would be something like: let's do something amazing and if it makes any money, we'll share it. That arrangement made it possible for Camille to live and study film in Paris for three years without having to work at all, it gave Jac the freedom to pursue his real interests in film, it gave Amy enough prominence to grow in the industry and this arrangement created an independent film studio that keeps on growing.

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The Via Crucis of Jane - Crux 1 - The Via Crucis. is a series of rehearsals for movies. A study of crucifixion and an intimate role play between JJ and his ladies. In The Via Crucis of Jane - Crux 1, Jane and JJ play out a scenario in which Jane is humiliated, scourged, nailed to the cross, and whipped even more.

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Waiting For Isabel - Week Two​

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The post production of The Passion of Isabel advances at a good rate. The beginning of Isabel's ordeals, including two rapes and her first whipping is taking two weeks to edit. It should be done by the weekend. The first cut of the beginning of Isabel's Passion until her first nasty flogging is over 35 minutes in screen time. I'm sure that at least 10 minutes will be cut out of these intense and sexy beginning sequences later during the second cut. At this rate the first cut of the entire film should be ready in about 5 to 6 weeks.

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The promotion for the theatrical release of JUSTINE is in full motion. We expect a lot of exposure in the next few days. On the wave of this promotion, Jac was contacted by an International Film Festival expressing their desire to include in their program this most sadistic and controversial movie. That was an unexpected surprise. The festival is in August and Jac and Amy are planning to attend. I'll have details soon.

Jac is combining his editing of The Passion of Isabel with his busy schedule of touring the media: TV, radio, newspapers, to give interviews and promote the theatrical release of JUSTINE. All this promotion work will be finished next week, and most of Jac's time will be dedicated to editing the film until the end of the month. However, pre-production for three movies, including Maleficarum II will begin soon. It includes casting and scheduling.

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moultons Jane Crux I is still one of my favorites. -- 624132 Yes Both 1 and 2 are excellent. Top notch!!!

The Via Crucis of Jane - Crux 2 - The villain ties Jane to the post and whips her front and back until she faints, then he lowers her, ties her to the patibulum and hoists her back up to face the post. Making the scene much more challenging and painful for Jane, the villain then ties her feet to the post and forces a stick behind her knees, between Jane and the post. The villain rips off Jane's last covering of modesty and proceeds to whip her more. Turning Jane around the villain crucifies her and whips her even more as she struggles against the ropes tying her to the cross. He then ties her feet to the bottom of the cross and shoves the stick behind her knees, between her and the cross, making poor Jane use her last bit of strength to remain on the cross until she dies.

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The Passion Play in JUSTINE​

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The Passion of Isabel has taken the back seat for a few days. All our efforts are on the theatrical release of JUSTINE. Yesterday, Thursday, Jac didn't have any time at all to work on his new film. Beginning at 9 30 am he had scheduled interviews that ended at 11 pm. Major newspapers, radio stations and television. The television element is interesting because a couple of million people get to watch Justine being whipped, Rosalie tortured as if on a Cross and Bea spread eagle on The Wheel.

We can't ignore the irony that Jac is being interview about a film that is based on the work of an atheist who mocked the church and the film itself has a Passion Play with three women crucified and it's all happening the weekend of the holiest of weeks in the Catholic calendar. The Holy Week. The tour of the media continues today, Good Friday. There are no interviews scheduled for tomorrow and Sunday, thus Jac will go back to edit The Passion.

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The Via Crucis of Camille - Crux 4 & 5 - The savage role-play between JJ and Camille continues in these two movies in the Via Crucis series. JJ becomes more creative as Camille becomes a savage, trying not to cry out at the brutal sting of the whip. But the torturer wins out as Camille screams and cries echo in the room. Two can't-be-missed looks into the very special Camille Duka's career.


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The Passion of Isabel Continues​

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The Passion of Isabel is back in full force, the editing continues and Jac is giving it a large percentage of his attention. His intention is to complete the first 35 min of screen time today, Sunday. Yesterday, Saturday, he had one radio interview that took his morning. But he was back with suffering Bea going over her torments on the big, flat screen all afternoon. The film is looking very good but it is a bit difficult to cut, not the easy cake Jac first suggested it would be. Maybe in his experience it is an easy cake when comparing to films like Dead But Dreaming or JUSTINE. If I remember correctly, he took a long time editing the inquisition series and all those films he made with Amy.

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JUSTINE opens theatrically this coming Thursday, but on Wednesday the cast and crew will get together for the premiere and there will be an after party. I'm sure we'll all have a good time, but everyone is nervous, particularly Bea because her family is not very happy with the idea that she made this movie. I'll have pictures, I'm sure. During the coming week most days will be concentrated in the release. More interviews, more visits to tv and radio stations and so on. On Tuesday Jac will be receiving the official papers from the Film Festival that is requesting this movie. I'll have news about that too, of course.

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The Via Crucis of Camille - Crux 6 & 7 Two instalments of The Via Crucis of Camille on one DVD! More intimate sessions with JJ and Camille.The passion play of Camille continues in Crux 6 & 7.

In Crux 6 JJ changes the lighting and the setup, Camille's acting is delicious as usual as she reacts to the pain of scourging, stretching, slow stabbing, and crucifixion.

In Crux 7 JJ and Camille improve upon those same elements and add a longer scourging, suspension, and nailing of the feet to the mix. A must-have for fans of Camille. In her rise to be the superstar of Red Feline, these two peeks into her career can't be missed.

 
The Passion of Isabel Post - Week Three​

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The Passion of Isabel is now on its third week. Jac is dividing his time between the editing of his new film and the promotion for the theatrical release of JUSTINE this week with TV and radio interviews like one he had yesterday. Bea and her director were at a TV station talking away to promote the film. What is very surprising to Jac is that hardly any of the people interviewing him know who the Marquis De Sade is. So, he has to explain and explain some more to the point of teaching them... and their audience, about where the word Sadism comes from. Sad. General culture is dead.

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Dave Rather than commenting on the pics (great!), the story line (great!), or Bea’s beauty (really great!), let me just say that I will most definitely purchase the video when it comes out. How’s that for encouragement?

The pics are, indeed, great. One thing is to see a picture, out of its context, another thing is to see it as part of the whole, in movement, with the sound of Bea’s breathing, the crack of the whip and all of that. The story line is great too, a very intense and full of cruelty. Bea’s beauty shows from the very first frame to the last… so what else can one expect? This film is a MUST HAVE for the lovers of extreme GIMP!

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The Via Crucis of Camille - Crux 8 JJ and Camille intensify their passion play in this 8th chapter of the The Via Crucis of Camille. The Hostage of Rome. Camille begins her arc as a brave, stoic captive, but her anger soon evaporates to the rhythm of the whip, stretching, and crucifixion.

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The Passion of Isabel Post - Week Four​

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The Passion of Isabel is now entering its fourth week in post production. The third week ended with almost half of the film already cut, there were a couple of days that were very intense, where Jac had the entire day to edit. He completed two more sequences including the Slanted Rack. The film is over one hour of screen time up to this point, it means that when the entire film goes through the first cut it will be over 2 hours long and a lot will have to be cut down in the second and hopefully final cut. At this rate it looks like the first cut will be done very early in May if not before.

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JUSTINE was released theatrically with a low key premiere. Jac was not in the mood for big celebrations this time around. The day of the premier was one month to the day since his father had passed away, so he didn't want an after party. But the premiere went well. There were a good number of guests and some press too. Amy had the chance to talk to the audience live from the US via FB messenger video, it was a nice touch. Jac introduced the film as a Challenge. A Challenge for De Sade who was in prison when he wrote the story, a Challenge to adapt the story to film, a Challenge to make it with very little money and a short time, a Challenge for the women playing the leading roles and now a Challenge for the audience. The days before the release Bea and Jac did a number of interviews on TV and Radio.

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JUSTINE is now playing at the movie theater and we'll see how it goes. But something interesting happened. On Friday Jac got a message from a young lady, Danielle, who told him: Congratulations for Justine! You are the best! It would be an honor to work with you! Jac responded with let's meet for beers Saturday! During their meeting over cold beers Jac described Maleficarum II and what the characters would go through. Danielle loved the idea and she said she was willing to be part of it, full nudity and torture and all of that. The meeting lasted three hours, so they talked a lot. After the meeting Danielle invited Jac to her place for more drinks and more talk, at one point she said Working with you will be a high point for me ... level God! I think Jac found one of three leading actresses for Maleficarum II. They'll begin tests this week. It looks like JUSTINE is bringing new blood to our team, just like Martyr brought Amy and Olalla brought Bea.

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The Via Crucis of Camille - Crux 9 - JJ and Camille begin to open up the road to Red Feline on the Cross in this next to last instalment. The action is more intense, and the camera roams over Camille like never before.

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Waiting For Isabel - Week four

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The Post Production of The Passion of Isabel continues with two more sequences about to be completed this week which leaves the three more intense sequences still to be edited. The editing is going fairly quickly. I expect to have a tentative release date by the end of this month. That's in a week. The film is over 90 minutes long at the end of the Slanted Rack sequence. I can estimate that by the end of the first cut, when all of the sequences are nicely set up, the film will surely be way over 2 hours long. The struggle to cut it down to a healthy 90 to 100 minutes of screen time will begin. That painful process will not take too long. I think it will be obvious. There's also the intention of editing a Making Of Reel with the funny and romantic bits.

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JUSTINE is going to start its second week on the big screen tomorrow, Thursday. It opened last Thursday, I have word that it might be going on for a third week. Jac was not expecting more than one week. As a matter of fact, I think he preferred it that way. A very short run, long enough to attract the hard core audience here. But it will be going on for longer than that, as unexpected as that is. However Jac feels that the best outcome of its presentation to the general public already happened. The first day of JUSTINE's theatrical screening attracted the attention of a young lady who went to see it, fell in love with it and decided to contact Jac.

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D. Santorum Margot said: On Friday Jac got a message from a young lady, Danielle, who told him: Congratulations for Justine! You are the best! It would be an honor to work with you! Jac responded with let's meet for beers Saturday! During their meeting over cold beers Jac described Maleficarum II and what the characters would go through. Danielle loved the idea and she said she was willing to be part of it, full nudity and torture and all of that. The meeting lasted three hours, so they talked a lot. After the meeting Danielle invited Jac to her place for more drinks and more talk, at one point she said Working with you will be a high point for me ... level God! I think Jac found one of three leading actresses for Maleficarum II. They'll begin tests this week.
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Wow, that's interesting. I can't wait to get a look at her. smile I have sometimes wondered why there aren't more masochistic females offering their bodies to Jac for whipping and torture in a movie. Perhaps his location in a far-off corner of the world discourages some of them.
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I wonder about that too. ;-) ;-) . I think what is very telling is that he found MOST of the actresses in Bolivia. Regardless of their nationality.
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Jac met Carmen/Camille in Bolivia, she's from France, so is her sister Vero. They had arrived a couple of months before we did, we were living in NY back then. We met Carmen at a mass, of all places.
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He met Amy in Bolivia. She's from the US, Maine, to be exact, she was passing through on her way to Chile, and Jac was visiting Bolivia from NY for a festival and began working on the NatGeo project.
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Mila is from Bolivia and she was hired as a receptionist where Amy was having back therapy. Bea just walked in our studio one day saying she would love to work with Jac, she saw Maleficarum and Sirwiñakuy and had to work with Jac.
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Danielle was living in Spain until two months ago.

Are they masochists in search for a fitting life style? I can't talk for them but I know for a fact that Carmen isn't a masochist, I have my doubts about Vero and Amy, Mila isn't, Bea likes to play rough, but she claims that she'll be the first to get Jac under the whip. Amy, Mila and Bea were hoping to get Jac up on the wheel for some torture after he was done with them in JUSTINE, he did not oblige.

If Danielle works out, we'll be getting closer to the pre production of Maleficarum II.​

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Eulalia Margot said: It looks like JUSTINE is bringing new blood to our team In more senses than one! Isabel's Wheel is so arousing, so simple yet perfect for a girl to be tortured on!
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The under appreciated wheel. It's causing a lot of discomfort at the theatrical screening of JUSTINE[/i]. A common thought while it goes on is “”please make it stop!" and it's not the characters in the movie who are thinking that. I'm pretty sure is the audience. Do I know that for a fact? Yes. I little survey I made amongst those people that were at the premiere indicated to me that the famous wheel was what made them cringe in their seats and beg to the heavens for it to be over. It gets a more sinister use in The Passion of Isabel[/i]. The poor woman is tortured on it and then nails are driven into her hands and feet to further secure her to the awful contraption, to be tortured even more.

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The Via Crucis of Camille - Crux 10 The final chapter in The Via Crucis of Camille. Camille's training ends in a brutal and elaborate tale. The most intense of all of the series, the last movie Camille and JJ filmed before they began Red Feline on the Cross.
 
Isabel makes room for Pygmalion​

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The fourth week of editing for The Passion of Isabel ended on Sunday, April 30th, but Friday night and Saturday Jac decided to take a break from his new film to dedicate some time to Pygmalion. It was a good idea, Jac had the chance to get some distance from the new film and go back to Amy's great movie. He was doing some fine editing with it before he embarked in his new production with Bea. He watched what he already did with Pygmalion, decided what needs to be trimmed further and what needs to be altered to improve the structure and got to work, his bottle of beer at hand and his cats surrounding him. He's happy with what he did so he will return to The Passion today and stick with it for the rest of the FIFHT week.

I hoped to have an approximated date of release, but I don't. I won't have it until the first cut is done, which could happen by the end of this coming week or the next. However, if I were to guess, The Passion will be ready by the end of the month of May or within the first couple of weeks in June. No later than that. But that's my uneducated guess.

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We're getting more surprises. It was not enough that an actress, Danielle, contacted Jac because she loved JUSTINE, someone else contacted Jac, a woman who desperately wants to have a copy of Sirwiñakuy ... but that's not the end of the story, she is part of a BDSM community here and wants her group to go to a screening of JUSTINE and have Jac give a talk. Her group is made of many people from different cities. They are getting together on May 14th for an event here, I didn't know there were such groups in this country and that they held events, and they want JUSTINE to be part of it, to have discussions and, to top it, to purchase an autographed copy of Sirwiñakuy as well.

7 years since its release, Sirwiñakuy still goes around making waves. That's is very nice and very encouraging for a new film Jac is planning, one he had in mind back in 2010, Dolores's Cage. It was going to be a first film for Mila and with Amy in the leading role, but Maleficarum happened, and together with BARBAZUL and Le Marquis de la Croix, pushed that script way deep down in the development pile.

Jac un-dusted the script a couple of days ago because he was asked about Mila for a long series of articles about her and Le Marquis de la Croix. He was telling the story of how when he met Mila, how she inspired him for a character for a movie... that talk led to him to wonder if the script was as good as he remembered it and if it was production worthy. He read the old, abandoned script and decided that is really good and it should be done now because it was written as a film to be produced without any money, but since Amy would not be available and Mila has taken a sabbatical, he would have to produce it with a different cast. As a matter of fact, he thinks that it would be a good way to break in Danielle before she gets to do the rough stuff in Maleficarum II.

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There's a new review/essay by Rich Moreland, this time he looks into Le Marquis de la Croix. He says: Le Marquis de la Croix is a literary fantasy that operates on different levels. On the surface, it has definite appeal to the BDSM community. Heavily sadomasochistic, the whippings and rack scenes are about as exciting as a bondage film gets. It is realism personified. The film does, however, offer more. There is an engaging political and religious message that is as appropriate today as it was in Sade’s time, the 18th century setting of the narrative. Told with a modern flavor, the story also hints at the erotic fascinations of a modern tourist who seeks out a museum then confronts her own sexual fantasies in an ending that, as they like to say in commercial media, is priceless. Read the first part of this review here:

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As we begin May, the month Amy celebrates her birthday, we have the results for April. JUSTINE continues as the undisputed best seller, followed by Maleficarum that went up to the second place and The Passion of Isabel in third but without much of a selling campaign, we'll see what happens with The Passion after its release. There are a few changes in the way the rest of the movies behaved. Some have gone up, some have gone down and some below the 10th place.

1.- JUSTINE - 394 points

2.- Maleficarum - 192 points

3.- The Passion of Isabel - 175 points

4.- Le Marquis de la Croix - 80 points

5.- BARBAZUL - 48 points

6.- Dead But Dreaming - 44 points

7.- Agent X - 43 points

8.- Red Feline on The Cross - 38 points

9.- Sirwiñakuy - 31 points

10.- Martyr - 28 points​

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Red Feline on the Cross - The classic tale of torture and crucifixion. This is our all time bestseller. Red Feline endures seven deliciously nasty tortures just because she walks into the right place at the wrong time. She’s the perfect martyr because she’s a fantasy, her own wild fantasy. You’ll have to repeat to yourself … “It’s only a fantasy … It’s only a fantasy”. A long, endless nightmare of whipping, torture and crucifixion. If you haven’t seen this, you haven’t seen anything at all.

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Amy is having a birthday!​

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We are celebrating Amy's birthday today! It doesn't mean that she's not very busy. She is. As I mentioned before, she's getting her masters, she's also an adjunct professor at a university, she's writing a script, preparing to shoot a movie in the US this summer, consulting with an editor who worked with Robert Altman, he's looking at the complex structure of Pygmalion, and if that's not enough, she's also working with Jac on the projects for this year... and, of course, running part of the business.

The Passion of Isabel is in its FIFHT week of post production, Jac is going through a rough time with the first Wheel sequence, it's looking great but some sacrifices must be made, the question is what and how? I won't have much to say about it until this week is over.

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There's another insightful entry in the 5 part review/essay of Le Marquis de la Croix by Rich Moreland.

He says: Le Marquis de la Croix is the dance of the gypsy, suspended and exposed to the nightmarish whims of her aristocratic master. Her time with him is short. Her trials encompass less than a twenty-four hour period.

After he purchases Zynga, the marquis uses her sexually then shackles her to a pillar for a good flogging. The scene rivals similar punishments from Dead But Dreaming when Amy Hesketh is the Irish traveler humiliated at the whipping post and Justine where Amy is spread-eagle between pillars for a public lashing.

In this reviewer’s opinion those scenes are the finest Pachamama Films has produced, but Zynga’s scourging–back and front with her dress torn away in the same manner as the Irish traveler and Justine–ranks among the best. To clarify the above statement, Pachamama Films presents female whippings under varying circumstances and settings.

In the case of Le Marquis, flogging is torture for its own sake as we see in the dungeons of Justine rather than an interrogation technique in Maleficarum (below) or enforcing discipline shown in Ollala .



Red Room - The Man in Black strikes again. Jane gets a hold of a copy of a classic film: Red Feline on the Cross She recognises the house where the story takes place. In her exploration she discovers the house has been turned into a modern building. Intent on discovering what happened to the house, she enters the building and wanders into an empty, red apartment. The Man in Black appears as if from nowhere. Thus begins Jane’s journey of pain. She wanted to find Red Feline but what she found is far worse

 
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