Another Nazarene?

To anyone looking from the outside, and to some in the inside, there’s chaos at Pachamama Films / Red Feline HQ. Total chaos, it appears that way. Chaos is not always negative, it means something is happening that requires some measures to be taken and to be taken right away.

There are always obstacles of all kinds that appear on the road taken. We are facing a few of those moments. One of those is and it always will be the economic one, but that is a recurring issue that began in 1998, when we started the non stop production of movies, over 60 movies since then, and it will continue to be so for the next centuries to come.

Then there are those obstacles that are particular to a project, like needs that haven’t been covered, or mental blocks, or the crashing of ideas, or the indifference of the many, or the deadlines approaching hard on and so many others.

But when halos appear around the sun, like it happened in La Paz just now, then we’re in for a big storm or something as huge as an earthquake. One thing is for sure, something is going to be shaking or storming or climaxing.

It is the first day of Spring here, Equinox, as they call it, it’s also the day of youth, love, students and everything bright and shinny. And yet…

Yesterday we posted at Patreon something we’ve been preparing for a couple of days, the background to the story of Seditiosa. As Jac note down his critical points to What Moves our FC, he interjected one conjecture:

And a last note. We were exploring the possibility of changing the title of the film from Seditiosa to something like Yahel The Nazarene, we did a search to see if that exists somewhere and… It Does!

https://www.patreon.com/posts/what-moves-yahel-71883083

Say what? Changing the title?
Me

Changing a title is not uncommon, of course.

When Amy gave her first script to Jac, it was titled, Monsieur Montez. Jac liked it, he produced it and Amy directed her first feature film. The title was changed to Sirwiñakuy in the middle of post production because Jac thought that the old Aymara tradition of kidnapping a woman for a marriage trial was more appropriate to the story, it even had a song, which was very nice, Amy agreed and it was changed.

The same happened with Maleficarum. The project began with the title Santo Oficio (Holy Office) and again, as Jac began to work on the production it occurred to him that the best title for a film about the inquisition is, of course, Maleficarum!

Other films titles were clear cut, Justine, Olalla, Barbazul (Bluebeard).

And as Jac was working with the script for Seditiosa, with a title that he picked and liked because he felt that it fit the story well, he got involved with the aforementioned background which in turn gave his characters more complex motivations to their actions and a deeper meaning to the outcome, something about 5 scrolls and old secrets and a famous line of healers and writers, all women, that are the protagonist lineage … and what it all means.

Then the name of the central character came up as part of the title, and perhaps because of films like Jesus Of Nazareth, or The Passion of Christ, or King of Kings… which describe or imply the main character in the title, in those cases, Jesus.

Oh the tribulations! One phrase popped up in his brain when he least expected, Yahel The Nazarene. A quick search in google showed a couple of results with the entire phrase, one of which is someone claiming to be the second coming of Christ and another an Israeli musician, along with a bunch of images of pretty women with the name Yael or Yahel.

He imagined the poster with the possible new title.

After his search and some meditation and exchange of ideas with his five cats and two of his pillows, Jac concluded that he needs to think about it and gave himself two days to decide. The new title, if there’s a new title, has to be part of the IndieGoGo campaign.

In the meantime, the other source of chaos, the up and coming production of 69 Année Érotique, has its own little and big details to work on, including some events in the lives of the protagonists that affect the scheduling.

Jac has to set a date before Friday, when the four protagonists will have a meeting of the minds and bodies and one new face, Geraldine, will go through her first test in front of the cameras, where Jac will show her the ropes… of what can happen with a nasty looking whip.