The Road To The Cross Begins

The first Friday of August was not as cold in La Paz as the previous weeks, better yet, the sun was warming the bodies of the three leading ladies as they changed their garments in front of the large windows in our HQ.

Once all dressed up in their white tunics, they went to the set in the next room, which was recently tiled, to begin recording the Pitch Video for the fundraising campaign for the Female Christ film Seditiosa.

They had some scripted lines but they also improvised a bit, as directed by Jac, the lord and master of the set, when the cats are not around.

Thank you for the update and an interesting history lesson!
You have come a long way since ‘RF on the cross’ movie, which gave me a ‘wow’ feeling when it was launched back then.I have now another ‘WOW’ feeling, I think this ‘Female Christ’ film will be a wonderful film and a milestone in your production row.
I am very eager to spread the news about this film, so I pray that the crowdfunding sites are operational a.s.a.p.
Good luck, I have a feeling that this film will be fantastic, and a huge success for you!
PS: Fellow CF cruxers! : I urge you to have your big piggy banks ready so that this project can become a reality!
xso

When Red Feline On The Cross came out it had an impact that we didn’t really expect. Those were the early days of the internet and as a matter of fact we didn’t really know much about it. Jac found a site made by a woman who had an interesting book and it was offering it in her website. Jac asked her about how to make a website like that. She gave him some good tips about HTML language, for instance. So we prepared our first website, rfpix.com short for Red Feline Pictures, the name of our company. We had another film company, founded in 1992, dedicated to more mainstream fare, Pachamama Films.

In January 1998 we launched our website, offering our first movie and a month or so later we sold our first VHS copy of the film. That was a milestone, in our experience. Over two decades later, many, many films later, we’re about to create another milestone in the history of cinema.

Glad to hear that the 3 leading ladies for the new Female Christ movie will be Mila, Dani, and Simone. All 3 were great in Monxa Mala, especially Simone. The crux scene at the end of Monxa Mala with the 3 of them and 1 other actress was very well done. I can’t wait to see how Jac will top this at it is my most favorite crux scene by you guys so far.
joek0

Monxa Mala was a hard film to make for many reasons. It was going to be more like the first Maleficarum, with exterior scenes, and a different story. Jac was forced to make big changes because of many reasons, which I’m not going to discuss now, they were discussed in detail before.

Monxa Mala is a film where ALL female characters, all six of them, suffer tortures. Most of them either assist in the tortures or do the torturing themselves until their turn comes up.

The one that suffers the most was Simonne. She is continuously tortured even when someone else is suffering some extreme torture.

In a way, Simonne’s Christ like crucifixion was a good preparation for her next role with Jac, the female Chirst in the story.

Dani worked in many films after Monxa Mala, on the Red Feline Pictures label, in the CruXtreme series and a couple of other movies. In CruXtreme III she suffers an intense crucifixion. She’s whipped, beaten, made to sit on spikes, and then to stand on those spikes, to then be scourged, suffer the strappado, breast torture with barbed wire, then impaling, and on and on until she’s nailed hand and feet …. and it doesn’t end there.

Mila has suffered the cross in most of her movies, from the very first one, Maleficarum, where she made her debut under horrifying tortures, soon after she was crucified in Le Marquis de la Croix, after a lot of torture, then in Dead But Dreaming where she turns into a vampire after being nailed to a cross… Then in Justine, where she shares a public crucifixion with Amy and Bea. I can go on and on as well.

Mila is wondering what else can happen to her after all those very different crucifixions but Jac is sure she’s going to look exceedingly gorgeous all nailed up and naked up there on her new cross.

Are you going to do a resurrection scene?
LadyKiller

No, as far as I know, unless the story becomes a Vampire movie, like Dead But Dreaming where the victims of cruel executions become vampires.

Seditiosa will end with the women dying on the cross. No resurrection, no decomposing bodies, nothing of the sort, no burials, no flaming funerals, nothing like that… a very straight forward tale of crucifixion in the very traditional way, except that no divine intervention takes place on this one. Not that I know of.

I can do cgi crows pecking their eyes out when they’re dead lol. Maybe as the credits roll you can put in shots of their corpses in various stages of decomposition just to show the audience there is no happy ending.
LadyKiller

I don’t think dying on a cross is a happy ending. The audience will experience the horrible scourging and via crucis of the three seditious women who are condemned to be crucified for their crimes.

Maybe at one point a bird takes out Judith’s eye or something. But that’s not exactly in the plans. It’s just a scripted possibility but so far, nothing has been said about that.

Would you consider having the Female JC die with her eyes open in shock? Showing her shock of the process of Martyrdom
LadyKiller

And yes, I think when she dies, her eyes can remain open, staring at the darkening sky or at the crowds before her. One of her followers will think she’s saying something… maybe.

Nice to hear you are FINALLY considering doing a Roman crux movie. Why it took this long is a mystery. You missed out on having Amy and an un-tattooed Mila to play parts. Simone is great, but the mass tattoos and piercings on the other girls just doesn’t fit. Maybe Amy can still be persuaded to return for this one. I will be frank however – I have my doubts that the crux scene will measure up. The last time we were promised a first rate crux scene, it was for Justine. To say it fell flat in that regard is an understatement. Please also do not get too bloody. I doubt the victim would survive to be crucified with some of the intense beatings portrayed.
wanttoknowmore

Doing a Roman Crux movie takes some good amount of cash because of the costumes, locations, decorations, not to mention a large cast. We made some films insinuating the Roman times, like Romana Crucifixa Est that had only two people, Amy, in all her crucified glory, and Jac, the Barbarian doing all the work. A day shoot, and the only expense was the transportation costs to the far away location, the taxi fare.

Another film that had a Roman/greek period scene is Dead But Dreaming. That short sequence took a big amount of cash because there were some lodging expenses for the cast and crew, it was a three day shoot and not to mention the costumes and decorations… and the cross, a very particular cross.

By the time we made Dead But Dreaming, Olalla, Pygmalion and Justine, Mila already had tattoos and they only appear in Olalla because her character had them. They are not in Dead But Dreaming, Pygmalion or Justine

Hi, (wanttoknowmore) I am sure Margot will consider your feedback. This is secondary information, but as I understood it, tattoos will be covered in order to get the right ‘Roman era feeling.’
I agree with you that it is about time for a Roman crux era film, especially with this content! If Margot and her team gets the right support, I personally feel convinced that they this time will create something special.
I also agree with you regarding the crux scenes, they ought to be improved…..non swaying crossbars, realistic sizes of crossbars e.t.c……. As I mentioned earlier, I believe Margot and team are grateful for all feedback, in order to make this movie a success.
xso

I’m not in the know of how is Jac planning to crucify his victims this time. I know from what I’ve read when we were contacted with the proposal to make this film, which included a script, with the understanding that we would re write it according to Jac’s vision of the story, so I know what it will include.

What I don’t know is how it will happen. Is Jac going to build a complicated set up for the final act of the crucifixion? Like you see in Jesus of Nazareth?

One key factor is ofc the funds that they will be able to raise. The more funds, the better Golgotha (and pre Golgotha) scenes…….. I hope the crux community will help Margot to make this the first longer female Christ film (I think that is the case….)
I have however joined Patreon, and will be the first in line (try to ) when the Indigogo crowdfunding starts. Will you and the other CF members also support?
I hope so, it is up to us to create the possibilities for Margot and team. I urge you all, continue to give Margot feedback and also support her and team to make this something extraordinary! Let’s make this happen!!!!
xso

A movie is the end result of Time plus Money. There’s no budget set yet because the script is not finished and we can’t work a scheduling, budgeting and all that jazz, but I know it will cost a lot. Our calculation, based on our experience, is that the film will take at least 6 weeks for the shooting and the cost will depend how many people, how many costumes, how many prop and what kind of props and more details like that, including transportation and catering for all those people and for as long as the scenes that require crowds will need.

So, the more we raise, the better chances we have to make it look incredibly great.

One way to get ideas through the team is by becoming part of the production. There’s one way now, by joining Patreon for as little as 5 bucks per month, all the way to the VIP status for 30 US dollars per month.

We’re building Patreon now and there will be many good things there like conversations with the actresses and the director, not to mention videos of the rehearsals, the making of the movie itself, the testing of the props and whatever else comes to the minds of the director of this adventure.