The Passion of Isabel – Streaming Now!
In 1501 the Spanish Inquisition is still in force. Isabel’s inebriate father proudly announces his daughter’s engagement to Torquemada, a brutal lord, without consulting his lovely daughter and she refuses to agree to the wedding. When his father grabs her on the turret of the lord’s castle, there is a struggle as she tries to pull from his grasp, resulting in the old man falling from the rampart to his death below. Clearly this is a tragic accident, but Torquemada – the lord of the palace and surrounding lands – has been publicly humiliated. He accuses Isabel of murder and locks her in his dungeon to await a trial that never comes, for the vicious man intends to use the powers of the Inquisition to torture and destroy the woman who rejected him. Will Isabel be able to resist him and survive?
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Margot wrote: “Sure, one thing is to plan a bunch of productions, another is to get things done, our history shows that we do manage to work on most of our plans. Sometimes with three movies in a row, like when we did Barbazul, Maleficarum and Le Marquis de la Croix. All produced between December 2010 and March 2011.”
Petelobo All during the period when Amy was working with you. Thanks for the update on films in the funnel. Just a comment from someone who has produced films: You have a bunch of projects that are not demanding of high budgets, all stuck and unsure of when or if they’ll be released. If a commitment was made to finish and release one of those a month, or a week, by completing post work, you’d definitely generate revenue. Finish them all before starting another project (I do get it that it’s a hell of a lot more fun for Jac to play in the torture chamber than to sit alone at the editing bench).
Our work is always like this. Constant production, post production, and so on. It is true that when Amy was working with us there were times when we had more than one film in production in a short time; however, it was mostly one film per year and when Amy and Jac were producing three or two films in a row, the post production was always in Jac’s hands. During the period of Big Production Values movies that included Maleficarum, Justine, Pymalion and so on, there were no small, No Budget Films made during that period. Films like Agent X or Fantom were made before 2010 when the Big Production Values films were produced, until 2015, when Pygmalion and Justine were made, one after the other between August and December.
After Amy left, the number of productions seemed to decrease but considering that Jac took a year to work on a NatGeo documentary and that there was a Covid epidemic that shut off the entire world for two years, it wasn’t exactly normal. There were Big Production Value films and the smaller ones too.
Two films were produced before Covid, The Passion of Isabel in 2017, streaming now, when Jac was busy preparing to release Justine. One year later, in 2018, Jac worked in Monxa Mala. At the end of that production he was off to Europe, invited to talk about the NatGeo project he did in 2005, when he met Amy. Ironic?
There were NO Budget Films produced as well, like the 6 movies in the CruXtreme series, with Dani and Mila, and other 3 films that are in post, like Agent Honey Trap.
Most recently Jac produced two Big Production Values movies, Seditiosa and 69 Année Érotique simultaneously, like Pymalion and Justine were produced back in 2015.
Seditosa and Justine were released within a year of production while Pygmalion and 69 Anné Érotique have a different path altogether. Nothing different there. In other words, the number of productions since Amy left did not diminish and the time to complete the productions didn’t either.
Yes it is a lot of fun for Jac to play in the dungeon, but most of his time he is in front of the computer running the biz. Editing, working on the accounting, yes he does that too, every day, meetings, doing all the personal things people do, etc.
You do a great job of promoting the projects as they are being dreamed up and shot, but I’ve pretty much stopped watching (except for saving off a nice image from time to time), but I don’t really expect any more that I’ll ever get to see the finished project.
Some smaller films, like Agent Honey Trap were shelved when Seditiosa started. That production became a priority and took a lot of effort, concentration and time. And it came about when 69 Année Érotique was already in production. Jac had to concentrate in those two Big Budget Productions, specially Seditiosa that people were expecting to be released within a year of the end of production.
I also get it that Jac is an artiste, so only he can do color correction, etc. in post, but since these are your quickies and surely there is someone who can do basic post work. Save Jac’s post work for the big budget films you make (with the money earned by the quick-release ones.)
Easier said than done. Hiring someone to sit full time to work on post production work is kind of expensive and not easy as simple as it sounds. Normally the director sits in the editing room to make sure the editor does not fuck up the movie. We did hire a sound mix studio once, for Olalla, it became a big drama the night of the Premiere party, long story. The point is, there was a time when we could’ve work with a crew in post, but it didn’t happen. If things get interesting with our latest effort, the Streaming Channel, we might work with some people in post, better yet, we might work with other directors and so on.
JDArts In all the movies I’ve seen of Amy, she didn’t wear a crown of thorns. Isn’t there one in which she does wear a crown of thorns?
In Red Room Desperately Seeking Red Feline, Amy plays a character that goes to the house where Camille was crucified, the place is no longer the same, a building is where the nice house was. She walks up the stairs to one apartment, the door is kind of ajar, she walks in. All the walls are red. She looks out a window, and suddenly The Man In Black appears, captures her, tortures the poor woman in extreme ways and finally Amy’s character ends up crucified to a wall; but before she’s nailed and after a lot of unspeakable torments, she’s crowned with a crown of barbed wire, which looks like a crown of thorns, it’s the same idea.
Red Room was Amy’s debut film. Before this film she did some of her training videos, but this one was the very first elaborate movie she participated in.
Soon after that experience Jac and Amy produced The Perils of Jane In The Green Inferno Amy plays a adventurous woman who is trekking far in the tropics, she finds what she thinks is an abandoned house, she jumps over a fence into the gated property, she finds a place where she can take a nap. A man appears, captures her and proceeds to put her through hell. Jane is whipped, tortured, beaten, dragged through the mud and before she’s taken to be nailed to a tree, a crown of thorns is placed on her head.
In a third film, AristoCrux, also in the tropics, Amy plays an aristocratic lady who leaves her fancy castle to go for a walk all the way to the river far below, in the way she encounters and kicks a peasant, who was busy cutting some grass blocking her path. After kicking him, she spits on the big burly man who does not react. She walks away and he follows her down to the river.
In revenge the offended peasant kidnaps her, tortures her, whips her many times, makes her walk carrying a patibulum, nails her to the hard wood, makes her walk some more, carrying her patibulum, almost naked, and finally, when she’s on her cross, he places a crown of thorns on her head.
That’s three films where Amy wears a crown of thorns.
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