Back in Bolivia and hard at work

The crew is all back and getting ready to work. We have the year ahead of us and we’re full of energy and eager to start what I’m sure is going to be a very exciting, productive and extremely creative road.

There’s a film we all love, Day for Night, a Truffaut film about filmmaking and how delicious, crazy and beautiful it is to work in movies. How the talent of so many people gather together to create a masterpiece. We all know that either Amy’s or Jac’s works are, indeed, masterpieces. Misunderstood by many, but masterpieces nevertheless.

This coming weekend there will be a production meeting where the producers will lay out the production plans to the crew… and there will be some beers and celebrating. Amy plans to show off the new equipment. She knows our cinematographer will be incredibly happy. After this special reunion I will have information to regal to our anxiously awaiting fans.

As it stands now, we have at least three projects to produce, three to release and we will continue promoting our past releases, mainly Le Marquis de la Croix and Maleficarum.

Maleficarum continues to be our best selling film. In its second years since its release, this film continues to attract audiences. The editor of a very famous magazine, commented on the poster thus: “I love this poster!“. I’ll have some nice surprise next month concerning that comment and why it was made.

If you go to amazon.com you’ll see Maleficarum there. It’s unavaible for now, but it will be there in the near future to a larger market. I don’t doubt that Maleficarum will continue to grow and bring us some surprises.

Barbazul will be released in the next few days. The first of the wide releases for this year.

Barbazul will be going to some festivals this year as well. We’re getting some very good comments from people that have seen it in the large screen in Bolivia. One person was so impressed with the film that he approached our associate producer, better known as the cruel inquisitor in this part of the world, inquiring how could he invest in our films. That’s the first time that someone totally out of our world approaches one of us offering money. A big deal here, a place where people really don’t like to invest in anything.

Two young men, who saw the film together, and who are friends with one of our crew, can’t stop raving about the movie and it appears that there’s a growing demand for a new theatrical run here, in La Paz. So, we’ll see. We’ll start the promotion of Barbazul

The big release of the year should be Dead But Dreaming. There’s a lot of anticipation everywhere, not only in this forum and other equally GIMP friendly places. We’re becoming known in the horror world and after Barbazul starts its own road and goes around and around, we’ll have a growing audience that will be ready for Dead But Dreaming. Are we expecting too much from this film? No. We have a very good idea of it’s basic potential. What we’re looking forward is to see how far it will go.

As I don’t stop reminding everyone, we didn’t expect the huge reception Maleficarum
got. We don’t know how far Dead But Dreaming will go, but we’re curious, very, very curious.

There’s one release that some people have been waiting for a very long time. A part of an old project that went into limbo at one point and that finally it will be released this year. Some of you know what I’m talking about: The fifth part of Seven Days on the Cross.

There’s a good reason for its long delay. We went into different, larger projects and our priorities changed. Some projects were relegated. With the release of the Via Crucis of Camille series, we started to re-visit the past and the fifth episode of Seven Days on the Cross was edited.

This new episode starts like the previous episodes: with a sequence of what went before, all those nasty tortures before the crucifixion. However, in this final release, the sequence with the previous escenes will be much longer. In fact, Seven Days on the Cross Five will have the complete story ending with a great and intense finale. This film is the one Gabrielle’s devotees have been waiting for all these years. Seven
Days on the Cross Five will be about 90 minutes long.

Another release for this year is the micro budget ghost story The Spectres of Blood Castle. A very nicely and intimately made film with Amy, Vero and Jac doing all the work. They were the cast and the crew. Jac was the director.

The Spectres of Blood Castle was shot in four nights in a castle in the tropical valley near La Paz. A fun movie that should not be missed.

The coming meeting of the minds will shed some light into our future productions. There’s an order of sorts as far as what is going into production in a matter of weeks. The first movie to be shot is the fifth film by our famous director Amy Hesketh. The title of the film, as you all know, is Olalla. Based on the Louis Stevenson story of the same title. Amy and Jac are extremely excited about this production.

When Amy went to the CineKink New York film festival with Sirwiñakuy, she returned with a nice set of Arri lights. This time Jac and Amy returned with more lights, new sound equipment, a new camera that will be used to create some amazing images. The new equipment will be tested with the new film.

Amy, Jac and Mila are already building their characters, the wardrobe for Mila arrived from New York along with everything else one day later. In three weeks there will be some great pictures, according to Amy, because she wants to shoot stills for the poster with the three principal characters in it. I heard what the idea is and it is cool. I will have pictures soon.

The second production of the year will be Dead But Dreaming II. This production involves some complex sets and FX, it will be a lot of hard work. Many of the scenes are outdoors, so we need to wait for the rainy season to pass. We’re looking at a June/July production schedule.

After these two productions are in the can there’s the possibility of doing some more. If the timing is right, of course, and the crew is not exhausted. There’s at least one Spy movie in the works, yes, possibly Eda’s story, and a sequel to Agent X. The title: Agent Y. Why that title? Guess.

I think with these releases and productions we’ll have a lot to do this year. We’re expecting some interruptions in the flow of work with the sudden festival invitations and the likely possibility that Amy and/or Jac might have to be in some of those presentations.

To carnyx I sent you an e mail so you can now proceed to buy Fantom and Agent X. We do have an e mail where you all can send us messages if you’re having ANY kind of problem. It’s at the top of my post now and it will be there everytime I post.

Our email is rfpix@aol.com. Our very first email ever, created one winter night at the closing days of 1997, in New York, and still running. I kind of liked the RFPIX name for the company. It is registered. How about a RFPIX TV? I can imagine RFPIX, New York. Tune in.

YikYakker says Strangulation is kinda cool, because it can be a very intense and intimate encounter between GIMPer and victim, with a lot of drama potential. Amy Hesketh gets that treatment in the upcoming Barbazul.

But not only Amy. Erika, Vero, Paola… and the list continues. There’s also whipping, stabbing, suffocation in this movie. Barbazul is one crazy killer of ladies.

YikYakker said:.what you have in mind is the GIMPer’s alternative to the Twilight saga, and not a moment too soon for my liking. Down the road, I can even envision a boxed-set on my shelf. Mmmmm.

Yes, we would love to take the story to heights that we could only dream of before and now we’re seeing the mountaintop within reach. In our experience, once we reach the top of the mountain, we see that there’s a valley in the other side and another mountain to climb up… so, we’d love to reach the one we see near… right away. There will be a boxed-set of the trilogy and it will look very good on a proper shelf.