The End Of The Torments Is ….
Another week has passed and Jac got closer to complete the production of Deep Cover Mole, unfortunately Mila was sick on Wednesday; but she was able to show up on Thursday to continue her suffering under increasingly heavy torture, which made Jac very happy.
The plan was to finish the film the next day, Friday, but Mila had what she described as a decaida, which means that her cold, or whatever it is she had, was back and so the shooting was postponed to Wednesday of next week. It will be the last day of shooting for this film, unless Jac wants Mila to suffer a lot more.
On Thursday the tireless but sometimes sick team worked on the transition from the 9th to the 10th sequence, with plenty of shots of two different nasty tortures. Friday was going to be totally dedicated to the final sequence of the film with the intention to celebrate in good form after they were done, as they normally do when they wrap a film. They were already having some good Havana Club Añejo Rum on ice.
Jac was looking forward to Friday, not only because The Naughty Threesome was going to finish the shooting of the new film, but because Jac had a dinner date for that evening with a very, very pretty lady. None of it happened. Big let down for the man. Both events were postponed.
Jac was/is already planning the month of May, which, incidentally, is Amy’s month, her birthday is on the 3rd.
Jac’s plan for May is to work in many fronts. He wants to begin the pre-production of two or three films. This work involves transforming the set, changing the floors, painting some rooms, moving things around, dismantling the dungeon where all the most recent films took place, beginning with Mila A La Croix and Monxa Mala and culminating with Deep Cover Mole, that’s a total of 10 films plus al the testing and try outs for Monxa Mala, many of them, which are little films in themselves.
With the completion of Deep Cover Mole, the new cycle of the two or three cast and crew movie making will come to an end.
Red Feline Pictures and Pachamama Films, which are almost the same but they are not, will turned their full time attention to big production value feature films, which includes La Femme De Chambre if it happens, there are some doubts about that film for some reason.
Most of the work for the rest of this year will go to the production of 69 Anée Érotique, Aventura and Maleficarum Excruciati. It will involve a fundraising campaign for Maleficarum Excruciati because it is a very expensive proposition which, from what I heard, it involves an amazing BATS scene where two of the protagonist will have a fiery end. The film will have many incredible torture scenes involving very elaborate props, a variety of nasty torture instruments, a large cast and great locations. The production of Maleficarum Excruciati might involve traveling to a different city, near to where part of Olalla was shot, to get the nice colonial look the film needs. That city was visited by Amy and Jac before, where they took a bunch of pictures because it was a possible location for some films.
As part of the work, Jac and Dani will be traveling in the middle of May to Caranavi to look at locations for Aventura and maybe some other film. Caranavi is in the tropics.
I have a nice anecdote about this area. Way back in ’94 Jac and Camille decided to hitch their way up to Alto Beni, the same area where years later Jac would work in the now award winning documentary he worked on in 2016 though 2018 about the Jaguars, but that’s another story.
In ’94 Jac and Camille were on the road to that Palos Blancos, Alto Beni, a 20 hour trip by car, and they were hitching. At one point they had to wait until the dirt road was cleared because there were some serious landslides.
Once the road was cleared, they were on their way. The pickup truck that picked up the couple took them part of the way and left them in the area known as Caranavi, which in Jac’s view was not very pretty, in fact it was ugly, but it was late afternoon so they decided to camp there for the night.
They very young looking couple looked for a place near the river, but the river front was full of giant spiders and snakes, not camping friendly at all, so they walked away from the river and they found a nice flat terrain somewhere between the river and the mountainous jungle where they set up their tent.
Their camp was near the town. There were some competing sounds going on that night. At one end, an evangelical church with incredibly noisy singing, almost next to it a discotheque with equally noisy music and then, to top it all, the bugs and frogs of the night celebrating with incredibly loud chirping. Eventually the sexy couple managed to go to sleep, only to be woken up in the morning by a guy screaming his head off. Get out! Get out! Get out!… the man, a young soldier, screamed at them in total urgency and panic.
Camille and Jac practically jumped out of the tent as the soldier proceeded to pull the tent away and to push both of them out of their camping area, which was a landing strip! An airplane, a Cessna, was just about to land, on top of them… if it wasn’t for the soldier.
Jac took a picture of the landing plane.
After that harrowing experience and some coffee in the ugly town, Jac and Camille were on their way to Palos Blancos, where they were going to spend a couple of days before returning home by bus, a 20 hr trip plus. They sat in the back of the bus, the guy next to them had a big wicker basket full of …. live snakes.
Dani and Jac will be heading to that famous area, all expenses paid by the office of tourism of the zone, to see what they have to offer. A three day excursion into the tropics, the first trip for Jac since his travels to Zurich, back in 2019, where he went to show his NatGeo film, Outbreak, about an epidemic, to an audience of experts in epidemics. During the discussions after the screening Jac was asked if he thought anything like what is in the film could ever happen again. Jac responded, it’s not a matter of if, but when and I think it will be happening soon.
One year later, to the date, Jac went into lockdown, along with the rest of Bolivia, joining the rest of the world because the worst planetary pandemic in recent history.
The Caranavi Palos Blancos adventure was sometime before the famous couple create Red Feline Pictures and around the time they started doing some rehearsals for a crucifixion. I think they shot one of the videos during that trip.
The month of May will be the beginning of a new cycle of work, with at lest 6 feature films planned to be produced, as well as 2 TV series and 3 documentaries. There are eleven films, either completed or in post production, on the line to be released during the year and beyond, three of those films theatrically. So… as scary as it sounds, that’s a lot of work ahead for our team. Ah, and there’s plenty of room for some improvisation as well. Like, what if Jac decides to torture Dani, in the jungle, during their three day trip… just to test the locations… who knows.
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