Moving On – The Realignment
We accepted the fact that there was little or no interest in supporting The Crucified Four movies and the time to move on became clear. We are doing that, we’re now considering all the alternatives we have, discovering a few new ones, and making decisions for the near and not so near future.
It’s kind of exciting in some strange way, because we kind of opened up the door to new things while not abandoning the old, or almost old.
Back in February 28, 2013 we posted what was part of a series of posts about Barbazul, Amy’s second feature that was released months before and it was getting a lot of attention.
Part of the post says: We took a big step in 2011 by going into bigger productions, which means bigger expenses and longer production times. These productions are very different from what we started with in the days of Red Feline.
This new path has, in fact, stopped our past productions, totally. Even if Le Marquis is somewhat similar to our previous work, two people, one set, all torture and nothing but, … still, it is different. So, once in a while a discussion comes up, should we go back to making some smaller productions or not?
The argument in favor is that it is not too hard to make them, specially now that we have so much equipment and resources, the argument against is that the bigger productions are, in fact, doing much better and taking most of our time, if not all, and they have the potential to go a lot farther, which in fact is happening.
But Jac looks out of the window, feeling nostalgic for those old days when making the Red Feline movies was so much fun and when they were so intimate. A dark set, nobody watching, just the two people living a fantasy with a couple of cameras running, taking it all in.
We are going through a similar thought process these days when we’re embracing the new cycle. Should we continue doing the small productions like Agent Honey Trap or CruXbound movies?
We returned to them when producing big movies became difficult to make because of the Covid Epidemic.
Before the world was hit with the epidemic we had at least two Big Production Values made, The Passion of Isabel, produced in 2017 and Monxa Mala, produced in 2018. Both films were the first big productions after Amy left for the US at the end of 2015.
In 2016 Jac got busy with a big production for NatGeo which involved lengthy periods of time traveling in the rainforest of Bolivia, for months at a time. In addition to that he was working on the post production of Justine and Pygmalion.
I mentioned in my previous post that I was going to go into the fundraising campaign and efforts for Justine, but it will be on a post later. This is mostly about our ‘moving forward’ plans.
After all that traveling through the jungles of Bolivia in 2016, Jac was back in La Paz to finish the post production of Justine and began preparing for The Passion of Isabel. He still had the big location where Justine was produced and all the props were there. He didn’t need a lot. He had the lights, the special effects, the props, the costumes, at least three cameras to work with, one of those cameras was used in the NatGeo project.
So, he talked to Bea who was game to suffer for her art and the two of them, and only the two of them, went in the set for a few weeks to make that extremely sexy movie.
The question remains… should we continue producing the less complicated movies like Agent Honey Trap?
We have to consider that question because we need to invest our time in more rewarding propositions as we move forward. The point is to engage in one or two big feature movies in a year, like we did before, between 2010 and 2015. Back then we had some of the Red Feline movies, like Agent X, making some cash, helping with the new ones. We have seven films in post and a couple preparing for release, which would help in the near and far future.
While we consider this, time passes, and this past Saturday, May 3, was Amy’s birthday. It was a bit coincidental that the last few days I was engaged in recovering old posts and putting them in our site. The theme of most of those posts were the new films around 2013, one of those was Amy’s Barbazul. One interesting comment got my attention, a discussion with Ralphus, from the GIMP site and I want to share it here.
Ralphus Amy being bound nude in Barbazul and then strangled nude in the movie is erotic but in the Boston Strangler’s real life he raped them then strangled them – NOT erotic. Hmmm…that’s a challenging statement. I think rape and strangulation are indeed erotic. Certainly there have been countless rape scenes in all kinds of movies. Suppose the Amy movie on Bluebeard was based on a true story? Bluebeard was fictional, but what if the film were based on the Boston Strangler? Would that make it less erotic, or not erotic at all? Certainly millions of women have been raped over the years in real life. Does that automatically disqualify every rape scene made on film afterward? Where do you draw the line?
Fiction and fantasy are based in reality or perceived/imagined reality. Even Barbazul the original story, is based on a real serial killer of old, as Amy pointed out before. In Dead But Dreaming, Amy’s character is based in two women who suffered the same ordeal, public whipping and execution, in the 1800’s. In Maleficarum Amy’s and Mila’s characters are based in real people who suffered the rigors of the inquisition, in fact, Amy’s character was the last person to be sentenced to die at the stake in Lima. And, like in the movie, there are rumors that she didn’t die. Jac’s performance in Barbazul was inspired by Tony Curtis’ Boston Strangler.
You can read the entire post here:
https://redfeline.com/chronicles/2013/02/02/the-continuing-saga-of-barbazul/
Back to the present.
Jac is having individual meetings with the five female protagonists of the next big productions and with the one crew member that is, right now, the only one on call, that’s Erix. He does a lot. One subject of discussions with him is the film Aventura he is going to be directing soon with Dani as the protagonist but he’s also involved in the work of pre production for Crucified Four. He recently had a big task for that film which he accomplished with passing colors.
In those meetings with the protagonists and Erix, Jac is exchanging ideas, disclosing to everyone about the possibilities for his future plans as well as where the current projects stand on the basis of what is happening and what he has at hand, which is a very fluid and organic process and everything can change completely from one day to the other.
In one of those meeting, the most recent one with Geraldine, they discussed the up and coming projects and the roles she will play in them. There are at least two roles for her, Paulina in Crucified Four and that of the very enigmatic wife of a presidential candidate in the series.
Geraldine tried on what Paulina will be wearing in Crucified Four, the dress fit her exceedingly well and she had the look Jac needs in the film.
This is what the near future holds, we are working on the post production of seven films with Agent Honey Trap heading the post production schedule.
We are also working on the release of 69 Anneé Érotique and the wider distribution of Pygmalion
We’re producing three of the CruXbound films, one is already in the can.
We’re also working on the Pre-Production of Crucified Four, Aventura and Maleficarum Excruciati
There’s some preparation work been done to make a sequel to The Man From The Moon – the 30 Years old miniseries, and to launch the huge production of the Television series Pachamama, as well as two documentaries, which we could start as soon as one of them gets approved by NatGeo and the financing comes in.
And Finally, we now have a little sale. 15% off if you buy two or more of our titles. We had some requests from some people that missed out in our April Sale, so we decided to at least have some kind of sale.
It’s a good time to get two of our titles, oldies, new ones, both. They are all very good.
https://movies.redfeline.com/bo/
