Double Cross

Veronique, aka Gabrielle, arrived to La Paz to play the lead role in Sirwiñakuy, Amy’s directorial debut. This was back in 2008.

Amy saw Martyr a few years before at a festival and was so impressed with Jac’s film that she decided to change her life right there and then to join Jac in his filmmaking adventure.

Amy was fascinated with Carmen’s role in it, for sure, but she was also moved by Veronique and the sexual tension she had with Jac in that movie.

You can read Amy’s comments on Martyr here:

http://amyhesketh.blogspot.com/2011/05/photoshoot-scenes-in-martyr_22.html

For her debut film, Amy wanted to have Veronique play the leading female role of Anouk, a young French woman who meets an older Bolivian man, Jac, and moves in with him that very day, without even knowing his name, to begin an s&m relationship that gets tougher and tougher until…

Amy was very nervous at the airport, waiting for Vero to arrive. She didn’t know what would happen during that first encounter. It went surprisingly great.

Once settled, Amy, Vero and Jac spent a few days discussing the film, taking some pictures and at one point they decided to play a little in the set Jac and Amy were in the middle of getting ready for Agent X. It was not finished, but it was good enough to improvise something.

Jac’s idea was to get Amy and Vero to feel comfortable with each other. Amy was going to demand a lot from her leading actress and she didn’t know how to approach her yet, the two were getting to know each other, Amy was is awe of Vero and Vero was not aware of that.

Off the trio went, cameras rolling, playing a little game where Vero and Amy were at the hands of Jac, who wasn’t really sure what he wanted to do with the two beautiful women who he were truly his muses. Jac began to play a game of guessing. The women didn’t know what he had in mind for them, they were going to find out.

Jac was not planning to release this film because it is not like the others, it’s not bloody, it’s more contemplative, descriptive of Jac’s musing on the task at hand, a study of Amy and Vero sharing a estrange moment waiting for the pain.

Although the experience was meant to get Amy and Vero comfortable enough with each other to work in Sirwiñakuy, it did more, it stablished the sense of total trust between all the participants to jump into making a bunch of films. Amy directed Vero in Sirwiñakuy and Barbazul. And they worked together in Specter of Blood Castle and Dead But Dreaming.

The naughty game the threesome played back then, is now ready for Amy’s and Vero’s fans.

A brief update about Seditiosa.

We reach the magic number 10! And we have 7 days left of the campaign. We would love to reach our goal of 25,000 in during this week. We’re excited for where we are now, we would be more excited if we get more, so, we won’t stop pushing now. We’ll take this campaign as far as we can!