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arber1456 said:
A have a question. Where do you made this film? The country in the Background of the film is fantastic.
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We're working in Bolivia, in an area of the country where we get different landscapes within a couple of hours by car.
We get the tropics, just two hours away from the city. Rivers, jungles, green mountains. That's where we made Perils of Jane in the Green Inferno and AristoCrux
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There are amazing snowy mountains, 16,000 feet above sea level, where we also shot some movies, like Barbazul.
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And of course, there's the TitiKaka lake with its amazin Island of the Sun, a place that looks like it's out of this word, where we shot scenes for Dead But Dreaming.
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Not to mention the great locations we have in Maleficarum and Olalla.
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We haven't made full use of the locations here. So... there are a lot of places where we can shoot.
 
The continuing story of Red Feline.

As I was saying. JJ and Camille embarked on a series of video sketches for a crucifixion. They began with a vhs camera, the same he and I used a couple of times in NY.
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The idea was to capture on images the process of Maricelli's crucifixion. Maricelli is the character Camille was going to be playing if that film was ever made.
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After a few sessions, JJ felt that it was necessary to do it more professionally. However, it was going to be more expensive.
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The vhs camera was sensitive to low lights, but still, a couple of lights were necessary. They used their bedroom, for this exercises, and a couple of times they travelled to the tropics, where Camille had access to a cabaña. Still, with the vhs.
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With each experience there was a clear progression.
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At one point, JJ was viewing one of the tapes, no longer a vhs, but Umatic, 3/4 inch, professional television tape. More lights, a black set. He liked what he was seeing. So, one morning JJ told Camille: It's looking so, so good, that if we made one feature length, with a plot, just you and I, ... we could actually sell it. Camille's response surprised JJ. "Why not?"

To be continued...
 
According to IMDB.com, the top US box office for Bolivian films:
#5 Maleficarum, Jac Avila director
#8 Dead But Dreaming, Jac Avila director
#20 Le Marquis de la Croix, Amy Hesketh, director
#21 Sirwinakuy, Amy Hesketh, director
#24 Bluebeard, Amy Hesketh, director
#27 Olalla, Amy Hesketh, director

I'm impressed.
 
Naraku said:
According to IMDB.com, the top US box office for Bolivian films:
#5 Maleficarum, Jac Avila director
#8 Dead But Dreaming, Jac Avila director
#20 Le Marquis de la Croix, Amy Hesketh, director
#21 Sirwinakuy, Amy Hesketh, director
#24 Bluebeard, Amy Hesketh, director
#27 Olalla, Amy Hesketh, director

I'm impressed.
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me tooooooooooooooo
 
And some of those films won tons of awards and great reviews!
Barbazul won GOLD as best movie of the year 2013
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This Latinization of Bluebeard is the most successful adaptation of that fairy tale to the cinema to date, as, in it, cineaste Amy Hesketh subtly expands her thematics from her already established central concern of Control (of one being over another) to Complicity. (Charles Lonberger review)
Jac won Bronze for Best Actor of the Year for his role as Barbazul.
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He also won GOLD for Best Sound Design
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Dead But Dreaming won lots of awards as well
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Jac Avila’s Dead but Dreaming does for Vampire Films what Coppola’s Apocalypse Now did for War Movies (Dean Andersson's review)
Amy won​
GOLD​
Best Actress for her role in Dead But Dreaming​
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Both Amy and Jac won GOLD for Best Producers of the Year (Beating Tom Cruise, by the way)
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Le Marquis de La Croix was a surprise winner too.
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Le Marquis de La Croix got SILVER for best film of the year, beaten by Barbazul
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Amy got GOLD for best director.
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This intense and supremely focused Bolivian production, handsomely mounted by Amy Hesketh and Jac Avila with just the right visual accents and splashes of color for Decadent Cinema, is a master class in film direction, courtesy of Hesketh herself. (Charles Lonberger review)
 
This coming Sunday, Bolivia is holding elections for mayors. Beginning last night there's a prohibition law that denies everyone the pleasure of a drink. And, this coming Sunday, is the beginning of the Holy Week... which means, next weekend we won't be able to buy drinks at all. Imagine that. So, in honor of both magnum events, we're holding a Prohibition/Easter SALE. All of our downloads at 20% DISCOUNT!

This is a great opportunity to add to your collections such amazing titles as the ones below. Click on the title and you'll get to the page.
Or the new, big budget productions like
Get our movies at
http://vermeerworks.com
http://redfeline.com
 
Margot said:
This coming Sunday, Bolivia is holding elections for mayors. Beginning last night there's a prohibition law that denies everyone the pleasure of a drink. And, this coming Sunday, is the beginning of the Holy Week... which means, next weekend we won't be able to buy drinks at all. Imagine that. So, in honor of both magnum events, we're holding a Prohibition/Easter SALE. All of our downloads at 20% DISCOUNT!

This is a great opportunity to add to your collections such amazing titles as the ones below. Click on the title and you'll get to the page.
Or the new, big budget productions like
Get our movies at
http://vermeerworks.com
http://redfeline.com
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unfortunately where I live the only way to get unlimited internet limits me to 1 megabit/sec...
 
thehangingtree said:
unfortunately where I live the only way to get unlimited internet limits me to 1 megabit/sec...
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The Prohibition/Easter Sale also applies to ALL the DVDs in our Red Feline store: http://redfeline.com
Films like
AristoCrux
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Martyr or The Death of St Eulalia
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Perils of Jane in the Green Inferno
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Our classic Red Feline on the Cross
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The Via Crucis of Camille
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Seven Days on the Cross
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The Via Crucis of Mila
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And our big productions
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The continuing story of
Red Feline, Part IV.​
Yes, I think I have to start numbering the parts of this engaging story.
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Well. Like I said before, JJ came up with the premise that if they, Camille and JJ, made a feature length video, with the equipment they had at hand, some extra light, a more elaborate set, and so on, it could be offered commercially. Camille's response surprised JJ. "Why not?"
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Camille knew of a place, an abandoned house in a classy part of the city. She knew how to get in. So, they went in an exploratory mission, took some pictures and decided that yes, it would be a good place to set the story.
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With what they had in hand, a few blank tapes, Umatic, with a duration of 20 min each, some lights, not the big ones, but patio lights of 500 watts, some black cardboards to create 'flags' for the lights, a bunch of props, some of the gathered and/or created by Camille herself, a good whip, nails, a lot of fake blood... they were ready.
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The story was simple. A curious woman walks into an abandoned house, she explores the rooms, being alone in such a place is a turn on for her. She doesn't know someone is there, watching her, following her. She pauses, touches herself, masturbates and suddenly a man in black walks in and nocks her unconscious and drags Camille into a dark, black room where he will proceed to torture her.
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At the time, their idea was to make one little movie, with the limitations they had, see how it comes out and then try to sell a few to see what happens. They didn't know that they were starting something totally unexpected and huge.

To be continued....

BTW, we have a big SALE, 20% OFF our DOWNLOADS AND DVDs at http://redfeline.com
 
fascinating how Camille took the initiative to such a degree -
what you're telling us completely overturns the stereotype
of 'exploited' women actresses taking part in such films
because they've no choice.
 
Eulalia said:
fascinating how Camille took the initiative to such a degree -
what you're telling us completely overturns the stereotype of 'exploited' women actresses taking part in such films
because they've no choice.
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Well. All the women that work with JJ are extremely independent, talented, open minded, daring and I could go on. Each shines on her own. Camille, for instance, works in theatre and produces amazing works of cinema, Amy is a great director, as well as an amazing actress, for those who remember Celeste, she has a big company now that manufactures orthopedic legs and helps people in need of those. I have a phd, btw. And I can go on.
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None of the great ladies that work or worked at Red Feline had no other choice. In fact they got into it because they just wanted to do it, period.

That's what makes this work so special. There's no external pressure on anyone, just the desire to work in something that all involve like and actually enjoy doing.

There's a lot of creativity on this. Camille, for instance, worked very hard on deciding what she was going to be put through in the Inquisition series.
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Gabrielle helped JJ build the 'rack' they used in that series.
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Amy built the rack for Maleficarum... and the Spanish horse. With Mila's help.
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She's now building a new rack and the pillory for Justine.
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So... I think the stereotypes come for bad movies, like 8 mm ... or dramatic ones like Requiem For A Dream where young beautiful women engage in nasty activities because they are drug addicts, or very poor and desperate and so on.
 
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