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[La Reine Margot]

Bring Out All Those Films!



I mentioned before that a new cycle was upon us and it has begun. With the production of Deep Cover Mole Jac completed a mini cycle, that he might as well call it the Pandemic Cycle, which began with CruXtreme I – The Playroom and ended with Deep Cover Mole for a total of 8 films in less than three years and in the middle of a wide world deadly pandemic! Remember those days? When people had to be in lock down for weeks, months, and weeks, and months….



As I also mentioned a few times before, Jac loves to identify the cycles in his work. He doesn’t consider the pandemic cycle a complete cycle. He goes by decades, like the 80’s, 90’s and so on, but that’s a subject for a later post.

The new chapter for Red Feline Pictures / Pachamama Films begins with a lot of pre production work for a few big production values films, the first of these films will be 69 Année Érotique, with a complete script, locations already in place, most of the cast in and so on. There’s no set date for production. It will be set once everything is in place, most importantly, the cash. There’s talk that Jac and Amy, yes, Amy, are preparing a fundraising campaign with the goal of rising $10,000 to cover the production costs.


One of the actresses in 69 will be Simonne, from Monxa Mala.


In the meantime, Jac is advancing with great pains with the old film Seven Days (Of Torture) On the Cross.

As he worked on the sound issues, he found some additional problems. He hopes that he’ll have an idea of when it will be ready by the end of this week. It is very possible that it will be released by the end of the coming week.



Jac is also working on CruXtreme V – The Playmates, cutting it down from its 7 hrs of footage. No details as to how far he is into that film yet. If I were to bet, I would say the release might be at the end of August.



There are some comments at the Crux Forums that need to be answered.

wanttoknowmore: When is the Martyr cut scene film going to be available?

nardnob: Yep, that movie needed way less plot and way more crux!!!

I’m writing a many parts post with the history of Martyr, Or The Death of St Eulalia, which will tell the story of that life changing film (according to Amy).



However, because of popular demand… if a few posts can be considered popular demand, it’s not like a million tweets are demanding it, Jac will work on an Only Tortures version of Martyr after he’s done with the editing and release of at least two of the new films like CruXtreme V and Crux Simplex and the release of Seven Days (Of Torture) On The Cross.

frog: jdm wrote: Which of Amy’s films is the original picture from – I can’t seem to trace it?
It’s from one of the whipping scenes from Maleficarum.

At the GIMP forums there was a question about a picture of Amy that frog manipulated to a good effect. He responded that the picture in question comes from the best inquisition film ever Maleficarum.



I further responded that yes, indeed, the picture comes from a whipping scene in the film that has been described as A Masterpiece Of A Genius by a film reviewer in his recently published 958 pages long Film Reviews book that covers 100 years of Cinema.



And finally, our Solstice Sale is almost over. It should end with the end of this month of June, unless, of course, the powers that be changed their minds and keep it going a few more days.



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At the GIMP forums there was a question about a picture of Amy that frog manipulated to a good effect. He responded that the picture in question comes from the best inquisition film ever Maleficarum.

I love this treatment by frog, the moment before the punishment starts, with Amy's smooth young unmarked flesh stretched and on display before the Arab torturers. I can just hear Amy's terrified breathing as she hangs by her wrists, the banter in Arabic between the cruel men as they discuss how they're going to proceed...

[La Reine Margot]

The Wheel Keeps Turning



Just when you think you have everything figured out, something comes up that puts everything upside down… in a good way.

I think history is repeating itself.

And I explain.

More than a decade ago, Jac and Amy were working on the pre production for Barbazul and having rehearsals for Cage, the original title to what later on had many changes, that’s when Amy received an offer Jac couldn’t refuse… some cash for a film if it includes a now classic scene in the masterpiece of a genius.



The generous offer was accepted and we ended up shooting three films back to back, Barbazul, Maleficarum and Le Marquis De La Croix.

Cage was shelved, the script turned into Casa de Fieras, it then was merged with 69, and now the official title is 69 Année Erotique



Something similar is happening right now and it is driving us into a mad frenzy of work and excitement. I will have news about these new developments soon, very, very, soon. But it all points out that we’ll be shooting a few films back to back.

wanttoknowmore I asked about the Martyr highlight reel as you mentioned some time ago one was in the works. I think a number of folks would be interested in seeing it, but have given up on it ever being released. How about posting the deleted scenes of Natacha crucified?

Some time ago, an international film festival requested from Jac his film on Haiti, Krik Krak, in 35 mm. The comment in the request was “to see it the way it should be seen”. Well… a 35 mm print of the film does not exist, it never did. As a matter of fact, there’s no longer a 16mm print either. There were two, one with French subtitles, the copy that went to the Cannes Film Festival, and one with English subtitles. There are three masters of that film in 1 Inch Video Tape, made for television, one in Germany, one in the UK and one in the US at PBS.



There’s a master negative in a refrigerator at the laboratory and then there’s a U-Matic version of the film in Jac’s bookcase, this U-Matic version was digitized and it is now in a hard disk. The rest are the VHS copies going around. I bring this up because something is happening in the world of cinema… The Evolution of Technology.

Martyr suffers from that evolution. That life changing film was shot at the beginning of the age of Digital Cinema in SD, with a great Canon camera that cost around $3,000 back in early 2002, the second year of the 21st century. Since then a lot changed. We are living the age of HD digital cinema where SD is an ancient system, and the way things are going, if you don’t shoot the next major film in 8k+ you won’t sell your film to Netflix.



Jac is now working with high end technology and finding out that current computers/apps refuse to recognize old material. At least that’s how he described the problem to me. However, he’ll be using one of his old computers to transfer all the material from Martyr to re-edit those segments.

The “deleted” crucifixion of Natasha scene is in the old tapes, as well as all the material that ended in the virtual editing floor, like extensive whipping scenes of Eulalia that did not make it to the final film.

Ranger1951: Re Margot’s comment about a few posts ≠ “popular demand”… over countless years, I attempted pointlessly to chase release dates for those long ago RF films (Double Cross, 7 DotC volume 5, Martyr [Torture only] among others, perhaps those innumerable queries might count towards “popular demand”?!

The law of probabilities suggests that other fans would also have asked the same questions as I did. Perhaps they also gave up!

With few if any responses from RF, I gave up long ago! As they say, “none of us getting any younger”. I know how you feel!

I guess my little comment about popular demand didn’t go that well. I didn’t mean to offend anyone. We do appreciate our loyal fans, particularly those that have been following us for so many, many years. It is because of this appreciation that Jac wants to release all those shelved projects and the old footage that was never meant to be public, but in the age of Meta reality, when every frame counts, for some reason, those materials from the beginning of Camille’s work with Jac, have some value for a lot of people.

Jac was going over some of the material he did with Camille, the early tapes, that are more like home movies than anything else, but now they have some historical value and it is in that context that Jac wants to release them. There’s a documentary feeling to them now.



Something similar to what Jac experienced in Cuba once. He was visiting one of the editing rooms, and lo and behold, Che Guevara’s father was in one of those rooms, going over some material he shot of his son, the famed guerrilla leader, in 16mm b&w film and it was going to be part of a documentary titled My Son Che. All those black and white 16 mm films he made of his son and family, for personal reasons, acquired great historical value. But I digress.

Ranger1951 I had also asked about the series “Training Camille” being made available. The original material was shot using now obsolete technology so problems translating the precious footage into presentable media were to be expected.

The first offering I purchased in good faith was (Training Camille – Sessions 2, 3 and 4) contained ONLY Session 2 and 3. Even by run time, the missing Session 4 was patently obvious. After further fruitless attempts to have the situation remedied, I gave up (again)! When later Sessions were “released”, I didn’t bother with another disappointing purchase experience! Those later sessions would have been more like the content of the excellent “Via Crucis, Camille” films. Once bitten, twice shy!”

After reading this comment I went to check the DVD of Camille Training Session 2,3 and 4 and I saw session 4 in the DVD. It’s there. We did not release any later editions to the Training of Camille.

All the Training of Camille videos were recorded with Jac’s VHS camera, the quality of the image cannot be compared to the later Via Crucis of Camille videos. If I were to comment to Jac about this exchange, he might change his mind about releasing the other Training tapes. In any case, right now he’s very busy with two films, Seven Days (of torture) On The Cross and CruXtreme V – The Playmates.



Jac is also busy with the pre production work for three Big Production Value Films and it looks like he’s adding a FOURTH one now! But that’s material for my next post. Stay tuned!

[La Reine Margot]

Thorny News



When Jac thought that he had a plan for the rest of this year, and maybe next, with plenty of work with a big feature in pre production, another big feature planned in need of a good script, a good number of productions to edit, when all of a sudden, like a gigantic meteor ready to hit a planet to transform it completely … something grandiose and extremely gripping came his way.



It looks like Jac has his work cut out for him… Is that the correct expression?

The situation can be described as exciting and exceedingly crazy, at least from my point of view. I had the chance to get a well informed sense of how things are going.

Well… in a given day he has four documents open in Word, three scripts and a pitch, he also has two films open in his Premiere Pro timeline and he’s working with all those documents and films AT THE SAME TIME, if that’s not multi tasking, I don’t know what it is.

I told him that it is crazy, he said that it is not. Actually he feels better working that way because he doesn’t get stuck. For some reason, working in one script stimulates his brain to work on the others.

He’s cutting CruXtreme V – The Playmates. So, he goes over all the shots for one scene, they are all assembled, but now he has to cut them. Some are very similar. So he chooses one, then another, then another and at one point he needs to think about which of the selected shots he wants to use and how, so he needs to distance himself a little…



So he goes to one of the scripts. He looks at the scene he was writing before, it was going well until he hit an obstacle that got him stuck… he looks at it again, he is, still, stuck, so he goes to another script and reads what he was doing and bang! He finds where to take the story from there so it will flow. He writes the new ideas until he reaches a point where he needs a new idea…

Back to the editing room, checks the material, it’s obvious to him what he has to do, he eliminates one shot that, although it was pretty, it didn’t flow with the rest, something about the position of a hand, so he cuts and selects more shots, puts them together, trims them and now he’s ready for the next part of the scene… Again he puts shots together, he trims them, he’s not happy, he needs to distance himself again…



Off he goes to the script, he found the solution, it’s flowing, he continues, he’s inspired, he completes two scenes, they work! But what’s next?… He needs to think again…

Off he goes to the other script where he finds that the problem persists… he needs to think about what to do with the problem… needs more distance… maybe he’ll leave it for the next day… unless…

Off to the editing again, cut, cut, select, select, that piano music is cool… that shot… hmmm that shot… does it work?… And so on.

It sounds crazy to me, but it’s not unusual for Jac.

In the middle of 2014 He was working in two scripts at the same time, Justine and Pygmalion, and he was editing Olalla.

Olalla was released at the end of January of 2015, Pygmalion was produced in August of 2015 and Justine was produced between November and December of 2015 after Amy returned from a trip to Mexico, to show Olalla at a the Feratum Film Festival and a visit to the US!



So, the big meteor I’m talking about came down on Jac’s already busy routine a couple of weeks ago to make things more exciting. Soon after, he learned of another big development, another meteor or asteroid… and now, on top of all the work he has to do, a lot more has fallen on his lap… top.

He has to have a script for a pilot for a TV series by the end of the month, right, next week, he got news that there’s some interest in the series he’s been plotting for a while and the whole proposal has to be sent before the end of next month. But he needs to have the script for the pilot to work on the proposal.



He also has to finish the script for 69 Année Érotique this coming week to work on the scheduling. Most of it is done… he’s finishing the third act.

He’s practically done with a Pitch for The Film I’m Not In Liberty to discuss yet, but it is a Grand New Project, so he’ll be shooting a scene for the pitch on Wednesday and/or Thursday and on Tuesday he’ll be sending the Pitch script to Amy for her to record it.

The new script for The Film I Can’t Discuss Yet will take time, of course. Jac is working on it with the pleasure that comes when he works on a new tale. He is carefully developing the characters, their motivations and their arch. The three main characters have to be strong and beautifully drawn and the way to do it right is planting the roots when you introduce them and stay true to them throughout the story.

Those three characters for the new film are going to end in a nasty situation, of course.

More about this and other great happenings later.

[La Reine Margot]

Crux Goes Mainstream



I’m not wrong when I say that there isn’t anything more mainstream than a good crucifixion, and it’s been so for over 2000 years. Sure, that’s but a whisper in the age of the universe, but, still, it’s many, many generations of Mainstream Crux. Isn’t that the reason why so many of those who follow us love it? If not all of them?

What’s the point of my post?

Well, not long ago, someone commented in a private message that The Passion of the Christ made 600,000,000 bucks. My first thought was that if it had made 666,000.000 exactly, I would go religious.

My response was that Gibson invested 25,000,000 of his own money and was clever enough to target the millions of people in the evangelical world. If we were to try the same, with a Female Christ, we would have a problem finding a target with such numbers as to make 600,000,000 bucks. Worse yet, we don’t have 25,000,000, not even 1,000,000.

Although in most of our movies beautiful females suffer the pains and agony of the crucifixion, we never made a Big Production Values movie with the very specific Female Christ Theme… And by that I mean a movie set in Roman Empire times, with all the costumes, the locations, the props to make it work, and based on the actual story of The Christ. Anathema!



Well… there are some videos out there that I know of. Like Ramon’s short or shorts.

There are even video taped performances in schools, with young girls performing the passion play, all female passion play where you see a pretty young lady carrying her cross.

So, a question came our way… Would we be willing to make a Female Christ Big Production Values film? Would we? … Could we? … Should we?

The question had a comment and I agree with it, this film could be, the only one of it’s kind so far. Part of the comment was: I have spent many hours searching the net, without finding anything close to this.



Coincidentally, not very long ago Jac was having a nice talk with Dani and Mila about future films, he happened to mention that he had an idea for a crucifixion movie set in ancient Roman times, inspired by Mila’s look in Pygmalion, particularly one promo picture where she looks like she could play Cleopatra.

The story is that of a sad Egyptian priestess that ends up nailed up to a cross. It has nice, high drama, but it needs locations like a Temple to Osiris, costumes for the priestesses, Roman soldiers, at least a Centurion and not to mention all those extras, and, of course the costume of the noble Roman woman who falls prey to the machinations of our dear and very naughty Egyptian priestess.



After Jac told them what it would take to make such a movie, they agreed with his reasoning that it would be too costly, a lot more than Dead But Dreaming, and that they would have to put some good cash to get all those Roman costumes, work the sets, the locations… all of that…

And for the purpose of this discussion, it would not be a Female Christ Movie, with the female Christ going about healing the blind, casting demons out, defying the religious leaders… all of that… to then end up crucified with two thieves, female of course, to each side… but then… something happened… that asteroid coming down and crashing into the ongoing pre-production party.

xso Wonderful news Margot!

You, Jac and your team seems to have a lot of exciting and interesting ongoing and upcoming projects!

Starting with the TV series: Will it contribute to make the ‘crux theme’ more accepted in mainstream media? (Guess you can’t answer that yet… )

Even more intriguing: When I read a line like ‘The Film I Can’t Discuss Yet’, curiosity increases dramatically ofc! Will be hard to wait!

Hope you can reveal more soon!

I will now follow your thread very frequently, hope other CF members do the same!

(PS: I hope your projects, old and new will have a broad support from the CF members. Your work is very important in order to make the female crux subject more accepted in mainstream media. Good luck!!!)

The Film I Can’t Discuss Yet (TFICDY) is getting closer and closer to be The Thing in our very near future. The Series, however, is not The Thing.

In The Series there will be two crucifixion scenes but not exactly feature length like TFICDY. One crucifixion scene will come on the second episode of the first season, while the second crucifixion will be the ending of either the second or third season. If that counts as bringing the Crux Theme to a mainstream audience, I guess that’s what it will be a possibility. But that’s not TFICDY. The Series is the second asteroid that came down crashing on the HQ of Pachamama Films

The first massive asteroid, The Film I Can’t Discuss Yet, has the potential of making an impact all over the place. The extreme violence in TFICDY would be incredibly intense. An orgy of bloody cruelty. And I bet that comment of mine will be made by some critics and I bet some will call it a Masterpiece comparable to Maleficarum, while others an affront to the universe, worse yet, Anathema!

Eulalia: I can understand Jac – I like to have two or three jobs on the go, swapping from one to another, I find I approach them more freshly, don’t get bogged down with a single set of issues. But I’m probably not so intense and driven as he is!:zplayita:

He has added a few notches to his intensity, throwing all those balls up in the air and juggling the projects without missing a beat, looking at each as it passes by his eyesight while his brain, in full storm, makes notes, adjustments, adds ideas, cuts shots… and on and on and on… total creative madness, I say.

I’m sure that very soon I will have a lot more to say about this feverish time we’re living.

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The Horrors of the Crucifixion



For the looks of it, the asteroids that hit our HQ have an effect beyond our walls. No small accomplishment for the likes of them. After all, they, the asteroids, shook the placid but very engaged progress of our already filled almanac. Am I making sense?

Suddenly, like it happened years ago with Maleficarum, the unplanned, unexpected and with a very favorite theme in Jac’s heart, The Horrors of The Inquisition, a new film takes center stage and begins climbing up, very fast, in the list of priorities and this time, another of Jac’s favorite themes, the number one, the one that gave birth to Red Feline Pictures… The Horrors of the Crucifixion.



Like I mentioned a million times before, back then, in 2010, Amy and Jac were busy preparing to produce two films, Barbazul and a film titled Dolores’ Cage, or something like that, when a proposal fell on their lap, a film about the inquisition and came with some cash attached to it. Dolores’ Cage was put on a shelf. Barbazul was already in full steam.

So, between November 2010 and March 2011 we produced THREE films back to back. Maleficarum, Barbazul and Le Marquis de la Croix, the latter one because we had a great location, a great couple of performers, Mila and Jac, and some extra cash from the theatrical release of Sirwiñakuy, Amy’s directorial debut that was on the big screen for months.



There’s an irony to all this. The film Dolores’ Cage went through changes in its title and intentions. From Dolores’ Cage, it went to Casa de Fieras, and now it became part of 69 Année Érotique, one of the films in pre production and the first in the list of priorities like Barbazul was back in the day, in other words 69 Année Érotique is all set to start production.

So, we find ourselves in a similar spot, which is very exciting, to say the least. The new, unexpected, big project I’m talking about is The Female Christ story, of course, and the one causing us to go nuts and the one getting some growing attention.

xso: Fantastic news Margot & team!

First the TV series that will make the crux theme more accepted in mainstream media, although it is only shown in 2 episodes if I understood you correctly. However, step by step, the acceptance increases. Very good news!

The TV series is very complex, the plan is to have at least three seasons that cover a lot of material and in different times of history, and having torture and mayhem in a mainstream visual work is not new to us. We had torture of pretty females in The Man From The Moon, the TV miniseries where Camille had her acting first steps. And this time, apart from some girls suffering torture, there will be two, count them, two crucifixions.

xso Then the 2:nd bomb, a possible qualified version of ‘The female Christ’ story’ if I understood it correctly. (There is still some uncertainty?) That’s really glorious news if that is what you are trying to realise. It might be a little bit controversial to some people ofc. The possibility of a female / alternative JC is however discussed more openly as each year passes by according to my non scientific analysis.
I am full of admiration that you are considering to try and realise such an amazing project.

Every project carries a level of uncertainty with it. It can only be certain when everything is in place, the funding, the cast, the crew, the locations, the props… everything. In the case of this new project, The Female Christ Theme movie with a name I cannot mention… yet, a lot depends on what happens in the next days, or weeks, or even… months.

xso As some CF members might know, a female version of the passion story is my absolute favourite theme, so I personally hope that this project will become a reality and a big success for you!!!

So from my point of you, I strongly urge as many CF members as possible to support this project! Please make it happen, it sounds to me like it would be a milestone in the development of the female Christ / female crux theme if it can be realised! It would be a pity if it cannot happen due to poor initial funding. Margot, how do we support this project? (Sorry for being so eager!)
PS: Do not forget to support also CF, it is after all the foundation for us ‘cruxers’, which we all depend upon!!!!!

In the next few days some critical things will be happening.

Jac will have a discussion with the possible actresses for the main roles, that of the crucified female Christ and her two companions, he will explain in some detail what will be demanded of them. Something like:

How would you feel being scourged, viciously, then taken to be exposed all bloody and naked to a bunch of people, then made to pick up your patibulum and force to walk, carrying that heavy wood on your shoulders, with people jeering at you, maybe throwing things at you, and a torturer or two flogging you to make you walk faster and then, after you reach your destination, to be nailed to the patibulum… to then begin your torture… With an emphasis on ‘in front of lots of people’



During that critical discussion, a lot of details of the how, when, what… of the production will be put on the table, and if all goes well, they will come to positive agreements, a timetable will be set to have a script and a pre production plan, they will schedule the making of a pitch video to then begin a campaign to raise some of the funds we’ll need to make this film a reality, which means, the project will then be more certain. All of this will happen this coming week, the last week of July, although I still feel like it is February.

Iconoclast12 Margot said: Although in most of our movies beautiful females suffer the pains and agony of the crucifixion, we never made a Big Production Values movie with the very specific Female Christ Theme… And by that I mean a movie set in Roman Empire times, with all the costumes, the locations, the props to make it work, and based on the actual story of The Christ. Anathema!

I am one of those people who have long imagined a movie with this theme. And although not everyone here has a female Christ kink, religious imagery was the gateway for a great many of us into crux. For that reason, it feels that we are approaching holy ground with this project!

Our experience the last two decades of making these movies, where, in most cases, beautiful females suffer the pains and agonies of the crucifixion, is full of surprises. When we first launch Red Feline On The Cross we didn’t know what to expect and ended up creating a mini industry and a large, loyal, following, and here we are, 20 something years later, discussing a Female Christ scenario for a new film and the offer of some good cash to make it happen… that is if we raise enough to make it THE WAY IT HAS TO BE MADE!

Someone could say that we already made such a film, big and small, like the Via Crucis of Camille videos, or the Big Production values film Martyr, or even Justine. As a matter of fact, Erix said exactly that to Jac when he was describing the idea to him.

Erix: But you already made that movie, didn’t you?
Jac: It is not exactly that film. I didn’t make The Christ story with a female in the place of Jesus… like, what if Jesus had been a woman instead of a man kind of speculative movie.



So, that’s where we are today, on the verge of launching a new project with the Female Christ Theme, ready to begin production of 69 Année Érotique, preparing the theatrical release of Pygmalion, … and much, much more.

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Trials And Tribulations Part 1




Well… things have a way of going their own way, and it’s not the highway. It’s more like the long and winding road. Everything was getting ready for the Wednesday preparation where the Foursome of Cruxing were going to get together to discuss the new idea… the Female Christ movie with high production values and big, elaborate scenes leading to a nasty crucifixion of the three of them, when Simonne contacted Jac and said that she can’t make it because of … Covid… Yes, she tested positive for Covid and she’s quarantined for the entire week. If she tests negative on Monday, she’ll be good to go next week.

So, instead of the meeting of four, it became a meeting of three where they went over the possible costumes for the pitch he’s planning, and they also went over the plans for the production of 69 Année Érotique.



I was truly impressed with the response to my previous post that I feel the need to quote everyone and since there are so many issues in each comment, it would be as long as a book, so I’ll be doing it in parts. Some of those parts will be something akin to a history lesson…

Btw, I have a phd in anthropology so I have the tendency to dig deep. I’m even tempted to sell my thesis to raise funds … anyway…

joek0 Awesome post Margot! It is great to hear about the possibility of an awesome big production female Christ type movie.

When I discovered you guys for the first time on the GIMP forum back in 2015, I was not a CRUX fan, but watching all your red feline and feature films got me hooked into the genre. Red Feline on the Cross and Martyr made me fall in love with Camille and the crux theme.

Your discovery of Red Feline On The Cross happened when more than ten years have passed since we released that film. When I think about it, I feel like it was only yesterday when we were in a basement apartment in Astoria, NY, with the first laptop Jac had, with a external gadget to capture images from the video tape. It was a weird little thing. And the quality of the pictures was not great, but that’s how we started, in 1998, in the middle of winter.


The actual size of the captured images

joek0: I seem to enjoy the movies that have financial backup from fans to be your best films That I enjoy watching over and over. Maleficarum, your first fan supported film is still my most favorite film of yours and the best Inquisition film ever. Even though it had no crux scenes, I enjoyed it. Dead but Dreaming is a good film, but not the best compared to the other fan supported films in my opinion.

The Big Production Value movies, like Maleficarum, were always a goal. The first one to have that kind of big production values work was Martyr or The Death Of St Eulalia, we could say that it was fan supported because at that time, at the beginning of this adventure, we were selling our first film, RFOC for 70 dollars a VHS copy and a lot of people were buying it.

That and our members only website were giving us some good income, which in turn we could use to get better computers, better cameras, better everything. The attack to the towers in NY changed everything; not immediately, in time. Things got harder and harder. By 2006 we were struggling, but things were changing as well. We were in transition. Camille had stopped working in films, she was involved in theatre in France and we had no new films since Martyr, which was produced in 2002 and had a theatrical release in 2005… That’s when Amy saw it and … well… you know.

joek0: I myself supported Justine financially and enjoyed it as a film, but found the crux scene at the end lacking. This disappointed me as I was a major backer for the crux scene, but enjoyed the other scenes I had backed for with major backing. I understand that it was cut short for reasons, but I wish it could have been edited a little bit longer on screen with the whole process.

Like Martyr before, JUSTINE closed a cycle, the Amy cycle, which started ten years before when the dynamic duo met in Bolivia, of all places, when Jac was visiting his country of birth, invited to a film festival to show two films, Martyr and Nocturnia.

While in the country, he was contacted by NatGeo to make a documentary about the hemorrhagic fever that killed thousands in the late 50’s early 60’s. Amy was passing through, on her way to Chile, when her friend saw a casting call flyer at a trendy restaurant in La Paz calling for North American actors to play the doctors that were involved in the investigation of that pandemic. The guy was Irish, but he convinced Amy to coach him to fake a Texan accent. He was hired… and so was Amy, to play his wife. Her entire scene was of the wife giving the doctor a kiss when he was almost dying of the fever. They were about to leave for Chile when Jac invited them to see Martyr at a second festival in a near city… they went, Amy saw it and decided to change her life… yes, I told that story already…


Amy with the crew in the bus during the trip to make the documentary

joek0: At this point, I had lost interest when Amy left. for the US I however found renewed interest and picked up Monxa Mala last month and really enjoyed the film. It is still not as good as the 1st Maleficarum film, but a great film for me none the less. It also had an awesome Passion Play scene at the end which makes up for the short one in Justine which I mentioned that it was lacking.

Like it happened with Camille ten years before, many people were disappointed that Amy was moving on into other less dramatic but exciting, just the same, adventures. And it was really disappointing for Jac, of course, he felt at a loss. Not only Amy was leaving. Miguel, the director of cinematography, was hired by a magazine/agency to direct commercial spots, a full time, permanent position, big salary too.

Mila also left the team because she was going to do something else with her life. And, adding to the irony, NatGeo contacted Jac again for another extensive documentary, this one about the killing of jaguars in the jungles of Bolivia for their teeth to smuggle them to China and give rich Chinese men a hard on.



In 2016 Jac was out there, in the jungle, shooting the documentary with an American crew, going after poachers, suffering the attach of a billion mosquitoes, sometimes protected by Bats.

While in the middle of the jungle, he was still working in the post production of the two films we produced in 2015. Pygmalion and Justine.

Justine was released in 2017, Dani saw it at the Cinemateca and called Jac. Like Amy before, Dani wanted to be in his movies.



In 2017 Jac was back producing his favorite films. This time with Bea, who played an impressive role in Justine, a smaller role in Pygmalion, and a smaller role in Olalla, the first film she did with us.

Jac returned to the old set from Justine, Maleficarum and Le Marquis De La Croix, where some of the props were stored, to make the now amazing film The Passion of Isabel.



The next step was Monxa Mala, with Bea in the lead. Mila returned to the fold and Dani had already been tested by Jac and was ready to take a major role. In addition, a new actress impressed Jac, Simonne.

For personal reasons Bea had to leave the production and was replaced by Simonne in the lead role.

A new cycle was beginning.

joek0: I can’t wait to hear more news about the Female Christ movie. I would love to support the new movie financially with a pre buy. Covid still makes it tough to spend money these days. Good Luck with your 2 new films in production.

trevorc: Please let the crux community know where they can assist to realize a potential Female Christ Theme production! It would be amazing if this came to fruition.

We’re going to begin a campaign to raise funds for the Female Christ movie very soon. We’re working out the details. Perhaps in my next post I will be informing of the campaign.

In the meantime, one way to support our work is by watching our movies! We have great films, as you all know and I know that most people didn’t see them all…

Some people saw ALL of them, Some people didn’t see any, but most people didn’t see them all…

Be one of those that saw them all!

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[La Reine Margot]

Trials and Tribulations Part 2



There are times when things come together for reasons only the universe knows and somehow a clear path appears in front of us. This weekend is turning to be one of those times.

As you all may know we have a Big Production Values movie in pre production, 69 Année Érotique, and although most of the cast is already in, there were two characters, one very magically delicious, as described by Dani, and particularly of critical importance, and another character that is also very important for the story who has at least one scene where she appears topless.

Well, as it always happens for reasons only known to Shekhina, get used to that name, she’s the Mother of All Things, a beautiful lady friend called Jac Thursday evening. She wanted to meet with him for coffee or something right away. It’s not everyday that Jac gets asked for an urgent date, so he was very pleased.



So, off he went that evening, leaving all the work and his very confused pets behind, to meet with this very lovely lady. At the end of his almost romantic and very rewarding meeting he had the actress he needed for the role with a topless scene.

At the same time, Jac was going through a decision making process for the missing magical character, and after one sleepless night or two, he found the solution, a fantastic solution that, once analysed, it was kind of obvious.

And yesterday he received two bits of news. One from his Production Assistant telling him that there are two people interested in the job of DP (Director of Photography) for the films ahead. Something Jac needs urgently.

With those issues resolved Jac has all the cast and the crew set for the production.

Jac was very happy before Friday ended. Then he received a bit of sad news. The University in Florida that was organizing the screenings and talks he was invited to do, all expenses paid, for September, was cancelling the events, or maybe postponing them, because of some internal problems.

Jac was scheduling the production of 69 Année Érotique around that event because he was planning to be away for at least two weeks. That’s not longer the case, so, unless there’s a dramatic change at the University and the screenings and talks are back on, Jac is scheduling the production of 69 Année Érotique for August and September. The exact date of the beginning of production will be set by the end of next week, but for all practical purposes, the production of 69 Année Érotique is ON beginning today.

Iconoclast12 Margot said: How would you feel being scourged, viciously, then taken to be exposed all bloody and naked to a bunch of people, then made to pick up your patibulum and force to walk, carrying that heavy wood on your shoulders, with people jeering at you, maybe throwing things at you, and a torturer or two flogging you to make you walk faster and then, after you reach your destination, to be nailed to the patibulum… to then begin your torture… With an emphasis on ‘in front of lots of people’

You summed it up perfectly! So excited for this!

The meeting with the three leading ladies planned for last week didn’t take place as scheduled because Simonne was tested positive for Covid. There were only two leading ladies at hand for the meeting, which was dedicated to go over the costumes they need for the Pitch Jac is planning to record, and to discuss the future, without the information that came Jac’s way the next day.

One of the issues came prominently, that of the props. One very important prop one is the famous The Crown Of Thorns. Jac remembered a town he visited years ago, while making a documentary about the Jesuit Missions, where they make very nice and brutally honest crowns for Holy Week. They use them on the statue of The Christ that they carry around during the traditional procession in Good Friday. One idea is to see if he can get the crown from that place or at least copy their style.

nardnob: Margot said: and here we are, 20 something years later, discussing a Female Christ scenario for a new film and the offer of some good cash to make it happen… that is if we raise enough to make it THE WAY IT HAS TO BE MADE!

Don’t forget the two thieves!
Would LOVE to see Dani and Mila crucified as the two thieves, naked alongside the lovely actress who played Isabel as Christa, all scourged bloody and humiliated for the jeering crowd’s macabre entertainment.
But that’s just my dream-team, surely I will enjoy whatever Jac is able to produce!

Part of that wish will come true. Dani and Mila are going to be up on their crosses, but not as thieves. That bit of the story will be different; however Bea, the actress in The Passion of Isabel and Justine, is no longer active in the film world for the time being, she has moved on to a more domestic life.

The actress that will be part of the three crucified women in the film is Simonne, who made her debut with us in Monxa Mala.

cire: If you guys take the challenge to pick up the Female Jesus theme, would be thrilling.
When you look at almost all Jesus movies, these crucifixions are not good at all.
All the production Teams didn’t really pay attention to details, thus failed. One can pump millions and millions into a project, but when he doesn’t know what he’s doing, what can it be?

You got the knowledge to do it.

Maybe you would like to think about the “Thief” issue. Why not having a female and a male Thief?
Most likely, when they crucified Jesus, there was quite sure a woman crucified alongside with him.

And yes of course, who can say that Jesus was a male?

Best of luck for your project.

Thank you for the good wishes. The general consensus amongst those who initiated this project, and that includes our team, or course, is that all three of the crucified should be women. One basic reason is because the Female Christ in this story leads a group of women, she has some male sympathizers, but she leads a tight group of young women who want to learn from her and consider her a prophetess. The paradigms in the traditional story have been changed in very creative ways to make the story more plausible within its historical and sociological framework.

So, it has become very important that all three of them be women.

In our story two of those young women are sisters who hold opposites views of what the prophetess should do with her life and mission. Both of them, without really intending to do it, bring about their horrifying and fateful experience, for all three of them.



We’re preparing to launch our campaign to raise funds for this amazing movie, in the meantime one way to help us move the project ahead is by having the extreme pleasure of watching our movies!

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[La Reine Margot]

A New Via Crucis



When Jac was asked in an interview which film was the most difficult to make he responded, the next one. I agree with him, there’s nothing more difficult in a production than to begin a new one. Once it is done, it no longer can be seen as being difficult… it’s done!

And here we are, at the beginning of a new film, a new adventure, with everything that this huge effort entails.

In the coming days Jac will set the date to begin the production of 69 Année Érotique, the first Big Production Values movie since Amy left for the US. We’re in front of the most difficult film to make yet…

It is the beginning of a new cycle, one that has a few projects to be produced between now and next year. The next in line is, of course, the one project that is making some waves, the Female Christ movie that now has a TITLE!



Would any of you like to be part of it?

I bet many of you do, that’s why we are setting up ways in which you can participate and work with us to make these films happen!

One way is to join our Patreon page!

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xso: Thanks for the lovely update Margot!!!

My hopes to finally be able to enjoy a qualified Female Christ film increases to the boiling point with each new post you make!

As I see it this is a very rare opportunity to make this subject more accepted in general. It will happen eventually, but why not make it happen now instead of in 5 – 10 years!

As with anything in life, from baking a cake to brain surgery, to throw some examples out there, there’s a method to making a movie. The choosing of a subject can be difficult in itself, to pick up a subject that can cause tremendous waves is an extraordinary move… and to decide to embark on a project that deals with a subject that is part of the soul of the history of western civilization is quite a feat… and if you decide to turn that subject on its head and change the paradigms… that’s a defiant provocation worth a world war.

To top it, to put another face on the most revered person for billions of people can be a daunting task.


Testing… testing…

xso: If you for instance google the subject ‘Feminist theology’, just as an example, you can find that the discussion of a gender swapped JC is getting some momentum and acceptance. It sounds like this project could contribute to that idea and the acceptance of female crux in general.

Swapping the gender of JC demands not only changing the gender, and with that to give it a feminine name… but also a complete change of the paradigm known to all.

That’s the task.

Will a film like that bring a change? Maybe. Will it cause a debate? Most likely.

xso: In addition to that this film will hopefully give us female crux lovers a formidable experience watching the final product! I am confident that you have the capability to make this to something very special! Hopefully it includes the most important classical scenes like arrest, trial, whipping, via crucis and finally a loooong Golgotha scene + a story and a message! All done ‘your style’ ofc and with some exciting twists! Now I am dreaming……hope that is ok……….

Perhaps there are many out there that share that dream, some, with tremulous lips, dare to express the dream, some others might let their imagination roam the landscapes of old, looking for such prophetess, to join her in her path to pain and glory… and maybe now that can happen.

xso: Seriously, and this is my personal view ofc, I feel that this is an opportunity not to be missed!!!

It would be a pity if it was not realised due to poor initial funding!!

So, my opinion, please try and support this project, check your (big ) piggy banks! Let’s hope that the funding site is operational soon!

Also, do not forget to support crux forums, our common home!

Once more, I wish you success with this and your other projects!!!

So today the Foursome of Defiance met to discuss more of the project and to rehearse some of the dialogues that will be part of the Pitch Video Jac is working on to start the campaign to raise funds for this film and to make The Dream Come True.



But we already started!

We have a Patreon page, in its infancy right now, where you can start helping this project.

As we move on with two productions, you will be on that path, just behind the three heroines of this story, who will suffer the wrath of that male enclave of chauvinistic passion, the High Priest and the Governor of the Judean province.

Join Our Patreon Page And Be Part of This Adventure

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You can also help by buying our films, those films full of crucifixions… and all of them framing the female body in exhausting pain.

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