The News From Red Feline Pictures

[MasterKav]

For me, the only thing this lacks is under arm hair.

[La Reine Margot]

Another bunch of posts. It looks like it's going to take me years to complete this task but one day I will have them all in place... bwahahahahaha.....

Some are kind of prophetic, really, and others are so way out of the mark that it's ridiculous, but they are all very much fun and have really great pictures.

I dare you visit the maze, you might not find your way out...

CruXtreme I Rules!

As the screaming 20’s get to a terrifying start, with scorching earth fires, war preparations, and massive distress, most of the world tries to go on as normal as possible. But nothing is normal, unfortunately. Yes, I’m gloomy these days, but I have some promotion to do for our amazing movies.

Instead of concentrating on the big sellers, like our number one: CruXtreme I – The Playroom, I’m going to look a bit into those movies that do not come up often enough, if at all.

Before Maleficarum went into production, and while Amy was on a trip to the US, Jac took Mila to the location where Romana Crucifixa Est was shot to make a quick film as a way of giving Mila some practical experience in front of the camera. They shot The Via Crucis of Mila. A one day shoot, without any particular effects, no blood at all. Just a whip, some ropes, the Tree of Pain, the sun and wind. That was it.
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Oh Such Extreme Cruelty!



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When Dani and Jac began the three part project Crux Extrema, now CruXtreme, the title sounds more up to our current meta-modern world, there was just an idea. Three separate scenarios where Dani is tortured in one different individual torture instrument each time. One of them The Post had an obvious outcome. The other two, not so obvious. One thing Jac knew was that The Wheel was very suitable for Dani, so it would be the first to be used. The challenge was to focus for an entire movie of more than an hour on that contraption.
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At The Speed of Light

As we all travel at exactly the speed of light through spacetime, not through space, not through time, spacetime, we’re still bound to our small space and all too short time. And yet, a lot happens in that small frame of time and within that even tinier space. Sometimes the unexpected presents itself right in front of us and in a very, very short time something new begins to take shape.

Jac was moving through time, Saturday, with a definite plan. Do some home tasks, take care of the spreadsheet, do some editing for CruXtreme II – Room For Rent, take the teleferico (cable car) to the far off street market to get cat food, they have a great variety there and his cats are terribly picky, all five of them, but as he was about to leave it began to rain heavily.

Soon before attempting to go to the market, just before lunch, Jac wrote a note to Amy, where he jolted down an idea lingering in his head for a new film. It was a short email, three small paragraphs with a few news and his idea … that was it. Then he felt the need to illustrate his idea with a picture, so he opened Photoshop, grabbed a picture from CruXtreme I – The Playroom and made what is known in the business as the Key Art for the new idea he was kind of proposing. He even had a title: 69 Un Año Erótico.
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At The Speed Of Light! Part 2

After a heavy and lengthy scourge with the Flagellum, our heroine has lost consciousness, her body is limp, her wrists are released from the shackles that held her arms high above her body and stretched to the sides. Time has stopped for her when, because of the intense pain and suffering, her mind could not take it anymore and went totally dark or, if you prefer, blank.

Perhaps a few minutes, or hours later, her torturer turns her around to face the ceiling above, her back bent over the contraption under her. Once again her wrists are attached to the shackles on the walls to the sides. She is set on the second position on The Wheel for a lot more torture.
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Ready For Some Water!

The young woman’s back is bent over the wheel, her exposed breasts facing up, her legs spread apart, her ankles tied to the extremes of a long log. Her face is covered with a white cloth, she’s not conscious… yet.

Her torturer prepares to dump some water on the cloth, slowly, to wake her and to make her experience what is known as water-boarding, but in her case is water-wheeling.
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[La Reine Margot]

I'm waiting for news of what will be happening, I know what's happening and it's not so pretty, There was an event, two weeks ago, that was intended to be a lot of fun and it turned out to be a nightmare. Jac thought that the nightmare was only for himself, but he was wrong. So... people taking Covid tests, having medical expenses, and so on and so forth. That includes Dani, Erix, Jac and a big number of Dani's and Erix' friends... Mila did not show up to the event, so she's not part of the crisis.

In any case, if all goes well, the Red Feline Threesome will be back in the set tomorrow, to basically build it and, maybe, decorate it for the new production Agent Honey Trap.



One thing that will not happen tomorrow is rum drinking. They can't. Period.

Would love to see this as part of a crux scene but set in roman times

One little movie was Romana Crucifixa Est, shot in one day, where the Romana of the title is played by none other that Amy and it is set in Roman times.



Jac has an idea in his head, for a very long time, that takes place in Roman times where a beautiful Egyptian woman falls from grace and ends up crucified. It's a very nice and long story and Jac has the perfect actress for the role. Mila.

I think the intention of taking some interesting promo pictures for Pygmalion were to illustrate his idea.



When I first shared the above image, someone said... Cleopatra!

I agreed, and I also agreed that she looks more beautiful than Taylor.

That film, the one Jac has in mind, would cost a lot of money to make and having the appropriate locations would be almost impossible unless they travel to someplace near Rome.

However, one can dream, and Jac dreams. In the meantime or beloved Mila suffers in a bunch of other of Jac's nasty scenarios for her, like in CruXtreme IV - Another Roommate



More news later.

[La Reine Margot]

As I wait for exciting news from our Red Feline Threesome, I have another bunch of posts in our site, coincidentally, they are from the end of the year of our lady 2019, when the world didn't know there was a pandemic brewing in the far east. I dare you all to take a leap into the past:

HAPPY THANKS GIVING!!!!!

The week began with Dani subjected to more torture for Crux Extrema II. Not satisfied with crucifying his most faithful actress, Jac decide to strangle her as well. As he pulled the rope around her neck, tightening the noose, Dani began to suffer the lack of air. The scene had to be shot from different angles, so it went on and on for the entire shooting time for two days.

When the scene was finally done, and after Jac freed his victim from the tight rope around her neck, Dani commented: That was scary! … I couldn’t breathe! It was exciting too!

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I love this work!

November is gone and the hard working people at Red Feline are presently involved in closing the year of our lord 2019 by finishing the post production of Crux Extrema I, wrapping the production of Crux Extrema II and beginning and maybe ending the production of Crux Extrema III. It is entirely possible that Jac might begin the shooting of Blanca and The Inquisitor during the last month of the year! Jac really wants to do that; however, he might encounter some limitations as far as his very busy schedule. Regardless, the three Crux Extrema feature films will be in the can before the year is over and the first of them shall be released SOON!

The first week of December saw very intense days of torturing Dani. Jac thought of something very nasty for the final scene in Crux Extrema II, which he told Dani about. She liked the idea and Jac wanted to test it. So, right after they were done with the shooting for that day, and before Dani went to take a shower and get dressed, Jac took a chain and proceeded to tighten it around Dani’s breasts. Press harder, I can take it Dani said as her breasts were pressed by the cold chain. That particular torture was added to the film and was shot the very next day. Jac plans to perfect it for the next film. Apparently, extreme breast torture is IN these days.
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CruXtreme I Has Arrived!

After much laboring and anxiety riddled days Crux Extrema I is going out in the world. When Jac was in Cuba, a long, long, long time ago, he came across a book written by the man who at that time was presiding the famous Cuban Film Institute. The title “Por Un Cine Imperfecto“ (For An Imperfect Cinema). It was a form of manifesto that stated that Latin American filmmakers … and by association independent filmmakers, should not attempt to match Hollywood. They do not have access to the kind of resources that Hollywood can afford to waste in films that have no meaning.

His proposition was that these filmmakers should do as much as they can with the little they have and not to worry about trying to make a “perfect” movie because in reality, a “perfect” movie does not exist. Jac had a big fight with this man once, for other reasons, but he took those words in his book to heart. Decades later, Jac continues to make movies, with little or NO means. They are not perfect, but they are perfect.

And now he has another film out, one made with a cast and crew of TWO! Dani and Jac, that’s it. As crazy as it sounds, that’s something Jac is used to. He created this business with the first film he made in this style, Red Feline On The Cross where Camille and himself were the entire cast and crew of that now classic crucifixion film. He’s done it again. The first of the three films in the series now titled CruXtreme I – The Playroom is beginning it’s journey around the world.
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CruXtreme I Is Here!!

​I wasn’t planning to post until next year, but I got news that the set up at the Red Feline Pictures Store! is complete and the new film CruXtreme I – The Playroom! is available in all formats. It’s now in our fans hands. As with all of our productions, it will be well received by many people and not so well by some. That’s something we cannot control and we don’t need to or want to do. Beauty IS in the eyes of the beholder.
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For Heavens Sake, What’s That!

I wasn’t planning to post today, but, in the legendary words of Michael Corleone, I was pulled right back in.

I’m already used to the idea that our films will have some controversy for one reason or another and CruXtreme I is not exempt from that. The reasons are palpable.

Ralphus Margot wrote:As with all of our productions, it will be well received by many people and not so well by some. That’s something we cannot control and we don’t need to or want to do. Beauty IS in the eyes of the beholder. “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”? I guess that’s code for “We’ll use tattooed models and those who don’t like it, well, tough”. We’ve been through the whole tattoo issue infinite times before on the forum, so many times that I feel like the proverbial broken record for even bringing it up. But there ARE options if the only actresses or models you can find have plastered their bodies with unwanted ink. It takes longer, requires an effort, but ultimately it will bring you more sales, likely a LOT more sales. Some, like Rick Masters at ZFX or Pedro at ElitePain, recognize the value of presenting their models in their best possible form for the cameras. And others…they just don’t give a damn, do they? C’est La Vie. It’s up to you how much income you want to make, or not. But don’t say it’s something you can’t control.
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A New Year, A New Decade!!

Another year is past, another decade is gone. We have a new beginning, the screaming 20’s, as they will be known by all. Mark my words. 2019 was a mixed year for us, with plenty of good and plenty of not so good. It was a year of real transition.

At the beginning of 2016, Amy had moved up north. Soon after, our DP got a steady and well paid job at a magazine, and many of our regular cast took different paths, those left behind had to figure out what was next. It was time to rebuild. And here we are, 2020, with new productions released, many more to come.

The year 2019 ended with Monxa Mala on the top of our best seller list, followed by Mila À La Croix on 2nd, JUSTINE on third place, Passion of Isabel on fourth and Maleficarum on fifth place.
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[La Reine Margot]

Love For Impaling



This is the time to catch up with our doings and undoings. The year is rushing to its end and our threesome are preparing to shoot another movie. But there are some movies I must mention here because there are some who asked.

gjpain Margot said: a beautiful Egyptian woman falls from grace and ends up crucified. I only hope that one day you will create an impalement execution scene with the same precision and details as you do with crux scenes, I’m sure that we all impalation lovers will appreciate and support the effort!

There are FOUR films in our catalogue of movies where such a scenario happens. In the now very old series Red Feline Faces de Inquisition, in the fourth installment, Camille suffers impalement after she’s nailed to her cross.



After much torturing, in 3 dramatic parts, Camille if finally nailed to a crossbar and strung up to dangle from it, her body contorting and swinging from her nailed hands, her arms stretched sideways to the max. It is in that position that Camille watches as the torturer retrieves a long metal spike from the rack.

He brings the spike to Camille and…



There is a brutal Impalement scene in Seven Days on The Cross. In the not yet release 5th part, Gabrielle suffers impalement after an incredible nasty crucifixion, one that lasted, until that moment, 7 days. After her nailed body is raised up to her cross, her feet are nailed and thus she begins the long agony of the cross.

But wait. She’s offered water, but it comes with a price.

LadyKiller For the seven days impaling scene..did you actually insert something?

I, personally, did not do anything in the movie; however, Jac wanted to shoot a very realistic angle from under Gabrielle’s crotch as he went on with the task of impaling her. The point was to use something that could actually be inserted in her without damaging her insides and causing her to suffer a deadly impalement.



So they, Gabrielle and Jac, created such instrument and used it successfully and safely. Gabrielle went on, after Seven Days On The Cross, to perform in many more movies, including Dead But Dreaming.

LadyKiller The way Gabriele dies in seven days on the cross is understated and sublime. It’s like she is quietly overwhelmed by her own death as she tires to gulp her final breaths.

Gabrielle performs her suffering with a mix of stoicism and resistance to pain. She does not want to give her torturer the pleasure of her screams.

LadyKiller I applaud Gabrielle’s realism in her death. You see when the implement was rammed into her vagina right up to the hilt her entire digestive system would have been ripped into shreds. This would have released stomach acid which would have mixed with her blood and slowly destroy every organ in her body, including her brain. As her body shuts down she would have gone though hallucinations as her lungs stopped working , which would explain her look of bewilderment and her gulps of air. Finally her heart is destroyed and she dies.

Jac is working on the release of this film. It will have the entire sequence of events on one 90 minute film.

In our most recent release CruXtreme III – The Callback Jac tortures Dani in many extremely intense ways, until, using a wooden stake, teases the beautiful tortured woman with the nasty looking piece of wood before impaling her with it.



But the impaling is not the end of her suffering. She’s tortured more, including being nailed hand and feet for a grotesque and incredibly bloody, sublime and yet romantic ending.



And if that’s not enough impaling, in Crux Simplex (For Two) Jac uses the same nasty piece of wood to impale Dani once again and I don’t think he had enough of the thing, or any other thing for that matter.

[La Reine Margot]

More amazing posts from the past:

Auténtico Suplicio! (Absolute Torture!)

After a day of rest, Dani returned to the set of Crux Extrema II for more extreme torture. ‘Will I be on my back this time?. She asked Jac ‘because when I was facing down, my body resting on my ribs and hips, it was too painful’. Jac comforted her saying that she would be on her back this time.

They began to work on the the Cross/Rack and after some truly painful moments that Dani took with great courage, she could no longer hold what she was feeling. ‘Esto es un auténtico suplicio! (This is absolute torture!) she screamed in pain.

After saying that she added ‘go on, I can take it for a bit longer’. Dani’s torture continued until Jac felt that she should take a well deserved rest. ‘You’re my hero! he said to the suffering and gorgeous woman. Dani smiled in the middle of her pain. The worst is yet to come and she knows it.

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Some positions are really, really painful!

Something happened in the country last week that changed completely the entire situation, even history. I mentioned before that Bolivians were reacting against the evident fraud committed by the government during the recent presidential elections. I also mentioned that Jac was working at the polling booths then, making sure everything was legit in his polling station. So far so good. At one point, during the counting of the votes and when the president saw that he was not winning, the count was stopped and re-started 24 hrs later showing that Morales had won. The people cried out FRAUD and the upheaval began. Dani, Jac and tons of people were demonstrating, the police repressing the demonstrators, the supporters of the president threw dynamite sticks… very long story. By Saturday the demonstrations were so huge, that the police decided to join the fight for democracy. By Monday there was a new government, the now ex president flew to Mexico, and history in Bolivia turned completely around.

That’s the reason why Dani and Jac didn’t work on Crux Extrema II until the 14th, when they went in the set to work on a very complex and painful scene, on the combination Rack/Cross torture.

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I can take another day of this torture!

On Tuesday, Dani and Jac were back in the set of Crux Extrema II to put the gorgeous actress to more intense suffering at the Rack/Cross torture. When they were done, Dani went to take a shower and Jac was in the middle of packing the gear when a wassap call came in from France, it was Camille, who wanted to know what’s going on in the country.

Jac had a detailed conversation about what’s going on, while walking around, handling the gear with one hand, holding his cell phone in the other. It was a fairly long conversation, because Dani came out of the bathroom, all dressed up and ready for tea time. Then something wonderful happened, Dani met Camille. They hadn’t met, ever, and there they were, in different parts of the world, saying hello to each other. Dani feeling starstruck, while Camille was fixing her hair, to give a good impression. Dani told Camille how much she loves her and her amazing work. Camille was very pleased.

Jac and Dani had tea after that. It is customary for Jac to have afternoon tea, a family tradition that dates back centuries, Dani went on to host her TV show. A show that talks about current events but it is mostly dedicated to the world of music, not any music, Rock! Yeah, she rocks.

Once alone, Jac decided to just relax, watch the news, which nowadays are not relaxing, and as he switched channels, he came across Dani hosting her show. He couldn’t resist, he took a picture.

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Increase my torture!

The working week ended with Dani suffering more torture for Crux Extrema II. Jac concentrated applying the new torture that includes stretching Dani by the neck. It goes like this, she’s forced to assume a sitting position on the the rack, her hands nailed to the crossbar, still, the rope from the rack is then placed around her neck and pulled until Dani is almost strangled by it. Her legs are wide open, over the sides of the rack. But that wasn’t the end of the production, nor the end of that torture. There will be more suffering for poor Dani this week, with some additional tortures in the position she ended on Friday.

When they were done on Friday, after having some tea, and as Dani was leaving, on route to her TV show, she commented: That was great! … I can’t wait to start working on the next film, and the next… and the next!

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[La Reine Margot]

Set To Torture



Our Red Feline Sexy Threesome got together to work on the set for the new film Agent Honey Trap. Jac wasn’t very pleased with the way the lights were set up, so he spent a lot of time sitting on his medieval throne, looking at the set to then get up and move a light here, a light there, while Mila stood by the side, sipping her glass of rum without ice, she didn’t want ice, and Dani stood, or sat, or lay down in the area where she will be tortured during the first part of her incoming harsh, bloody and electrifying torments.



After some time had passed and Jac realized that he was not going to be happy no matter what, they moved on to the living quarters to talk, and continue their rum sipping. He promised himself he was going to set up the lights the very next day, which he did. They are going to start shooting next week.



Agent Honey Trap is not the only concern that is occupying Jac’s mind. He is editing CruXtreme IV – Second Roommate with Mila in the role of the second tortured innocent girl.

This film follows the story from CruXtreme II, when Dani is looking for a room and falls in the hands of an evil landlord.

In CruXtreme IV, Mila arrives to the house, looking for a nice room where to live while going to the university in the far, far away big city, and…



If I’m not mistaken, CruXtreme IV is the 11th film Mila made with Jac, there are two more in post and she’s going to be in another two, Agent Honey Trap and Deep Cover Agent (provisional title). That’s a lot of movie making.

The first film Mila made with Jac while preparing for her very dramatic role in Maleficarum was The Via Crucis of Mila – The Tree of Pain.

It was shot in one day in the same location where Amy suffered the cross in Romana Crucifixa Est. The same location where Amy was burned at the stake and Mila was stripped, attached to a cross and forced to watch the agonizing suffering of her lover in the classic inquisition movie of all time Maleficarum.

When Jac sent the gifs of The Via Crucis of Mila to me I couldn’t help but notice that they had a western feeling to them. I mentioned that to Jac and he said that it was his intention to make the film with Mila in the photo style of a modern western, he even wore the nice Australian cowboy hat he bought in New York.



I’ll have more news soon!

[La Reine Margot]

Another bunch of past posts!

A lot has happened since I posted what follows next way back in 2019. It's nice to read them, there are amazing pictures and great anecdotes. And many of those films I'm discussing there, which were either an idea in Jac's head, or were in post production, are out now!

And don't forget, we have an END OF YEAR SALE. 20% off if you buy two or more movies!

Fierce and Extreme!

The production of Crux Extrema II will go on for another week, there’s a lot more gut-wrenching tortures planned for gorgeous and courageous Dani. When the concept for the second film in the series got into Jac’s head, he was not expecting it to be as specially severe as it became with each passing shooting day.

The Rack/Cross combination needed some special treatment, and that is exactly what happened. Dani suffers a good number of torture combinations on the rack, not just the classic position of being stretched laying flat on it. Some of the positions Jac was coming up with, didn’t even seemed possible and yet, Dani was audacious enough to try them, at great pain to herself.

Jac was reserving the most painfully intense scenes for the third and last film in this series, but as the work progressed and the possibilities opened up, it was obvious that Crux Extrema II was a lot harsher than what the initial scenario intended. Jac now has the challenge of making Crux Extrema III a lot more fierce and extreme!

During the tests and rehearsals for Monxa Mala, Dani was put to the rack, this time the idea was to shoot a rehearsal scene as it would be in the film. The result is a great looking video of Dani tortured on the rack, from beginning to end. This video will be streaming at the club soon.

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Number One!

October is gone, a very intense month in all areas, and Maleficarum Monxa Mala, continues to be our best seller and most of the sales and hits we get in our sites come from this highly esteemed forum. Mila À La Croix is a distant second, followed by JUSTINE in third place. The fourth place remains solidly in the hands of The Passion of Isabel. The fifth place is occupied by Maleficarum. Although we sell most of the films, some more than others, those five keep their place. Two films competing to go up in the charts are Le Marquis De La Croix and Agent X. The rest of our movies have their moments. None is ignored.

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Chaos Reigns!

​While the entire country is going through the most chaotic upheaval in a very, very long time, with people fighting in the streets, huge demonstrations against the government, cries of electoral FRAUD and much, much more, Dani and Jac are using the afternoons to do what they love to do the most, shooting an extremely naughty movie. But not all afternoons, sometimes there are other demanding things to do; but most of the afternoons this coming week will be used to torture Dani in truly nasty ways. They hope to finish shooting of Crux Extrema II by the end of the week.

The mornings and evenings, when there’s nothing else pressing, is when Jac goes in the editing room and cuts the scenes for Crux Extrema I. There were 2 hrs and 55 min to be cut at the beginning of the weekend, now there are 2 hrs and 34 min. That’s still a lot, considering that all of that material is usable, in other words, those are shots that were pre cut. Depending on how things go today, Jac will have an idea how much longer it will take for the post production to be finished.

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The Pain Is Too Real!

The production of Crux Extrema II entered perhaps the most painful week for Dani, who, as she was set on the rack, facing down, her ribs and hips resting on the coarse and hard rungs, her breasts off the rack, her back bent as Jac pulled the crossbeam to which she had been nailed not long before, her ankles tied to the ropes pulling her body on the opposite direction, she cried out ‘Oh shit, I’m in real pain!’. Jac stopped pulling the crossbeam up for a second, then she said ‘Go on, I can take it, don’t stop, just do it quickly!’. Jac pulled the crossbeam up as Dani cried out in agonizing pain.

After securing the beam to the post at the end of the rack, Jac proceeded to mercilessly lash the unfortunate girl’s stretched body.

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[La Reine Margot]

December belongs to the twins of pain



At the end of 1975 and beginning of 1976 Jac was in Bolivia, visiting from NY. At that time he was a film student in the Big Apple, he also worked in many odd jobs including one doing maintenance for a building in Van Wyck EPwy, Queens.

One day, while working in the apartment building, a man came to the place and asked Jac if he wanted to join the union of maintenance workers. He said, ok, why not? One week later, while changing a bulb in a narrow back entrance, he had a very strange accident, he was up in a ladder, his boss was holding it because it was not very secure, and as Jac stepped down, the guy let the ladder go, needless to say Jac broke his leg. The owner of the building was none other than Donald T. yes. That D. T.


Jac in Central Park, NY, 1975.

So, after spending 6 months with his leg in a cast, Jac was not ready to work, he had some time in his hands, and after recouping further from his really terrible accident, multiple fractures, and since he was receiving some compensation, off to Bolivia he went, planning to stay a month, ended up staying 6.

He was preparing to return to NY when he went visiting some relatives, one of them was his grand father’s second wife, Hilda, a well known poet. She invited him to visit her family, who lived in the famous house of another famous poet. Jac’s family is full of poets, painters, musicians, really. He took pictures of his step grandma and her relatives, all of them extremely well known. One of those pictures won awards for Jac during his student days. He also took some pictures of his travels and of himself in strange situations.


Jac’s self portrait at the San Francisco Church in 1976.
Later on, in 2013 he shot scenes for Dead But Dreaming in this church.


During the visit to his grandfather’s relatives, Jac saw a beautiful young woman, Hilda’s niece, Carmen, who he hadn’t seen for a few years. She was two years older than him and he kind of had a crush on her a few years back; seeing her at that moment he could see why.

Carmen mentioned to him that she was in town, visiting from France, where she was now residing, she introduced to him her young, very tall, French husband. Jac could see that she was pregnant… She was pregnant with twins!

Shortly after that meeting Jac was back in NY, back in school, in his own little studio, and no longer holding menial jobs, he got into advertising and photography while finishing his film studies. He also produced a weekly radio show, worked in some films, including Hair, where he was a production assistant and extra.

By 1981 he was already working in his own films and in 1988 he premiere his first major feature documentary film at the most famous Cannes Film Festival, where he met Graham Greene, the celebrated writer. Because of that film he worked in Cuba and ended up going to Hungary, where we met. Another long story told in detail in other pasts and future posts.


Jac at the Cannes Film Festival with a journalist

In 1992 we were in NYC, living in a nice duplex by South Street Seaport, he was preparing to shoot another movie and he wanted to make it in Bolivia, so… off to Bolivia we went.

In April of 1992 Jac and I arrived in Bolivia. A month before our arrival, Jac’s beloved aunt Mercedes, also a poet, died of heart disease. A few days after our arrival there was a mass to remember a month of her passing.

Jac and I were in the front row at the Church where the mass was taking place because Jac was direct family. To his side was his dear uncle Guido, the widower, also a poet. In the row behind us there was this very beautiful young woman with the most shinny smile. Next to her was Pancho, who Jac knew well from their time of smoking pot and organizing weird music encounters. He is also Carmen’s brother. Pancho introduced the young pretty smile woman to Jac. Jac learned at that moment that the beautiful girl in front of him was none other that one of the expected twins from 1976. The twins were born on December 6 of that year.


Camille in 1992, before the encounter

After the mass everyone went on their business. Jac and I were preparing some acting workshops to prepare actors for the film Jac was hoping to produce. He also needed a million bucks for that. Long story.

While looking for cash for the big film, Jac decided to give all of his new actors roles in a twin peaky miniseries he was writing in his head about two sisters, one gets killed. A casual encounter in the street with Camille, the beautiful young relative of his, led him to cast her in the central role of his new story. It was 1993.

Camille played the difficult dual role of twins, one who is killed and the other helps in the investigation. Jac decided to make the sisters twins because he had the perfect actress for that. The dead twin appears in flashbacks, while the living twin is a central character along with Jac himself and… me.


Shooting a scene for The Man From The Moon

Camille surprised Jac with her daring and capacity to get into character. She had one extremely difficult scene where she rolls down a cliff. Jac was impressed with her passionate performance and saw the amazing possibilities Camille’s talents and daring were offering him. He was sure he finally found his goddess.


Clip from The Man From The Moon

Soon after completing the miniseries Camille and Jac began her training for a role he envisioned she would be perfect for by trying out scenes for the film he had in mind, one that involved a crucifixion. Camille was willing to do it and so they recorded some sessions that became more and more intense as they worked on them.

Somewhere along the way they became a couple and were living together. in ’95 they went to the US, France and other cities in a sentimental and working tour.

They were back in Bolivia at the end of that year.

At the beginning of 96 Jac was invited to be a film professor at a prestigious university, he was also preparing to shoot a TV series based on his script for the film that never was and that’s when Gabrielle, Camille’s twin sister, moved in with the happy couple. He was now living with the twins, teaching at a university, preparing a TV series, doing a lot of photography and also planning a vampire movie with Camille and Gabrielle in the leading roles.


Camille and Gabrielle, posing in 1996

In 97 Jac was hard at work making a few documentaries, preparing to shoot the TV series and working with Camille on the videos we call The Via Crucis of Camille. At one point Camille and Jac decided to make one movie with the subject of crucifixion and with a lot of torture and they made Red Feline On The Cross with a budget of less than 500 dollars.

And then the crisis. The TV station that promised to back the series withdrew their offer because they had too many things going. Jac got pissed. He got together with his basic production team, that included me, and announced that he was leaving Bolivia.

Before the end of 97 off he went to the US to begin something new, something he didn’t know at the time, a new industry, Red Feline Pictures, something that had Camille, who went with Jac, Gabrielle, who later joined them, and himself as the sexy triumvirate who would give shape to the brand new and outrageously daring adventure.

BTW, his basic production team is, still, the pillar of Jac’s work, all the original members of that restless team are still hard at work.


The Team in 1996, making a documentary.
The same team later on, in 2005, in the same area, shot a documentary for NatGeo
and met Amy who became a great actress and director.

And that's how it all began, and why December belongs to the twins.

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I love that back story, Thanks for posting.