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[La Reine Margot]

Location Location Location



Not long ago, but before all the frenzy for Pygmalion, Jac took a trip to the location for Seditiosa, a solo act except for the hired driver who took the long road, a back road, through areas that Jac didn’t know. The famed director was annoyed for most of the trip to the terrain where he plans to bring havoc to three beautiful ladies. The car journey took about 45 minutes, because of the driver’s unfamiliarity with the city. Jac became acutely aware that the poor fellow was not a paceño (from La Paz), his accent betrayed him.

When they finally arrived to the Alkamari Eco Resort Jac was relieved. His friend Miguel, the owner, was there, big hugs, and then off he went to talk to Miguel’s ex wife, who is the manager of the place. She was very please to see him, they talked about different things and then Jac explained to his hostess what he needs. She was very impressed with the film idea, the Femenine Christ. She said it gave her goose bumps. A good sign.

Then the lady mentioned her daughter, who is in college in NY, who saw what Jac did in that place back in 2013, a great scene in Dead But Dreaming, Mila’s Crucifixion. The daughter was amazed with that work, and would’ve love to be part of it. Jac mentioned that he needed more people for the new film. Carmen, that’s the manager’s name, said “I’ll talk to her, she might come for this“. The daughter is 25 and a poet.



The subject of poetry came into the conversation, when Carmen mentioned that her daughter wrote something related to spaces, the poetry of spaces, and in the young woman’s case, the claustrophobic spaces in NYC, the tiny, closet size apartments, high price tiny apartments.

The poetry of spaces concept was in Jac’s mind when a short time after his conversation with the helpful manager, he took a nice long walk through the location, capturing more of the poetry of the space in his mind and his cell phone and… yes, getting inspired by it.

Jac encountered many issues during his walk, a lot of them technical, but there was one central subject he was becoming aware of and which goes into the main structure of the story.

As Jac walked through the different areas of the location, choosing those with the potential of being the places where the different sequences will happen, he became aware of one particular aspect of his exploration.

He began his journey from the top, where he already decided the market place will be set, all the way to the bottom of the hills where many of the areas for the different sequences are located, including the possible site of the crucifixion.



If he sets the beginning of the film at the place where the thinks the crucifixion can be set, then the Crucified Three would walk from that point, all the way up to the market where they will be arrested to then be taken down to the place of the crucifixion, in other words, the film would be about their journey.

At the beginning of the film Yahel and her companions will encounter a group of people about to stone a woman and the Crucified Three intervene.

A few meters from the area that Jac thought could be the place of the crucifixion, there was some kind of hole in the ground. A perfect spot for a stoning. He envisioned the woman being dragged to the spot, pushed in there and about to be stoned to death when Yahel confronts the people. He imagined a pile of rocks on the side of the hole.



Is that where the film begins? Jac thought. Maybe something could happen before that scene. He looked back to where he was thinking setting up the crucifixion area at the border of a cliff with the view of a rocky hill on the other side. That could be a good starting point.

In this scenario, Yahel and her companions appear in the area from a pathway beneath the cliff and they come across three or four tall tree trunks, three of them empty, one has a crossbar hanging, nails on the extremes, blood around them. Below the cross there are skulls, dogs feeding on bones, and an overall a ghastly sight and at that point Yahel has a ‘vision’.

A nice opening scene before the ‘stoning’ sequence, Jac thought.



Jac walked from the ‘crucifixion site‘, going pass the ‘stoning site’, not far from it there is a construction, normally used to keep horses, not a stable as such, but intended for that purpose. Jac saw the construction from the hill high above the area sometime before. He hadn’t seen it up close and he was curious. But now that he was in front of it, he saw its potential, as well as the problems. One of those problems is the total lack of a source of electricity anywhere near it, a problem if he were to do any shooting at night in that place.

Regardless, Jac was concentrating on the journey. The ‘stables‘ are on the road up to the market after the possible crucifixion site and the ‘stoning” area.



After arriving to the crucifixion area, or calvary, and stopping the stoning, ​Yahel and her companions will continue their walk by the path behind the construction, all the way up to a different area, one with trees. That’s where the encounter with the possessed man could happen, the Third sequence in the story, where Yahel and her companions confront a group of people who drag a chained man down the hill with the intent of getting rid of him. She proceeds to heal him.

After taking care of the man and giving the man’s family the means to help him recover, the growing group of young women, now 7 of them, continue their walk to the market.



The Crucified Three finally reach the market at the top of the walk, where Yahel will get into trouble because she picks up fights with slave traders, snake oil peddlers, religious zealots, while Judith and Magdalena take issue with the Romans killing one of them.

After the confrontation at the Market, the Crucified Three are taken down again, by force this time, all the way to the execution area, stopping first at the ‘stables‘ where the scourging of the three ‘seditious’ women and Yahel’s crowning will occur, followed by the sentencing, the carrying of the patibulum all the way to the hill of skulls and finally the crucifixion of the three women.

That’s a brief summary of how the story can go. The Crucified Three go full circle from the moment they arrived to the area until they agonize nailed up upon their crosses.

Thus, after the visit to the location, the basic story was settled. It is about what happens to the crucified three when they go to the market to acquire some supplies for their work of healing people, basically, like a road movie where the events come to them each step of the way.

In that way the story will not be a grouping of random events not connected. The journey connects them all.

daelan: Really excited about the movie. Even with the low budget (unfortunately), I believe that it will be a milestone for those that enjoy crucifixion. Also, I think it has a potential to attract new members to the crux community.

A low budget film demands a lot of creativity. How to make the best production with the least of funds. In other words, where to put the little cash for best results. Tricky. I’ll discuss that in my next post.

In the meantime you can help bring up the available cash by becoming part of the production with very little.

You can join Patreon and get the updates on our projects, with great pictures and videos, here:
https://www.patreon.com/rfpix?fan_landing=true

During the production of Seditiosa we will have exclusive posts, with pictures and videos at our Patreon page. We will also post videos of all the testing we’ll go through, one particular video will be when we build the crosses and we’ll have The Crucified Three becoming acquainted with the positions they will have during their crucifixion.

You can also help by watching our amazing movies over and over again, you just have to get them


Download our films!
https://movies.redfeline.com


Get our DVDs by mail
https://dvds.redfeline.com

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The new design of the site looks just great. Compliments.

[La Reine Margot]

The Great Story Of A Female Messiah



In the Gospel of Mark, the oldest of the four versions of the life and passion of Christ, as far as I know, we encounter Jesus as a full-grown man. The two miracles that push the story —the Virgin Birth and the Resurrection— are not there at all. The story begins with Jesus’ adult baptism, and it ends with a cry of desolation as he is crucified. It’s left to the Roman centurion to recognize him as the Son of God after he is dead.

In Seditiosa we meet Yahel as a grown woman, with no particular connection to the divine. We don’t have a nativity scene, mandatory on every household of the Catholic persuasion in December. If we did, it would have to be like this:


It’s a girl!

Seditiosa begins with the three protagonists arriving to the Hill of the Skulls, the place where thieves, rebels, murderers and others meet their ghastly end. It is called that because there are skulls on the ground, most of the time.

When Yahel and her companions arrive to the area, not their destination, they are just passing through, they stop to look at the place, the skulls, the dogs eating from the scattered bones.

Yahel has a vision, that of Janai, her ancestor, standing by one of the tree trunks, obviously a cross. She doesn’t say anything but she seems to be telling Yahel who she is and who she will be. A sort of baptism.



Thus the story begins, the three women are on their way to the open market near the big city, they need to get supplies. The market is known for the great variety of products that merchants bring at certain times of the year, and for a short time, a day or two, and from all over the known and not yet known world. The products Yahel needs are those herbs and plants that arrive from many of those parts unknown, many of them with natural properties that are close to miracles.

At the market, Yahel faces the ugly world of deceit, slavery, hypocrisy and she goes nuts. Judith and Magdalena will try to protect her by intervening, getting in front of the incoming roman soldiers who are there to preserve the peace, an act resulting in the death of one of the soldiers. The three women get arrested and taken to the place of execution where they will be scourged, sentenced to die on the cross and all the rest.



As you will notice by my description, the beginning of the story is described in some detail, even tough in script terms it is only the 1st act. A script has 3 acts.

And here is where the story meets its main obstacle. The budget.

Ben Hur, a film made in the 50’s, had a budget of 15 million dollars. Spartacus came in cheaper, a miserable 12 million dollars, the 1927 King Of Kings cost 1.5 million dollars, while The Last Temptation of Christ cost 30 million dollars and The Passion of The Christ came in at 25 million… The cheapest of them all Jesus Christ Superstar was made with 3 million… yes, only 3 million. What do they have in common? Expensives sets, star actors, elaborate costumes, huge number of extras… and so on. Except for the 3 million musical that relied mostly on natural sets, hippie clothing that the actors probably had in their closets, a few rented prop machine guns, instead of swords, a couple of tanks and a couple of jets flying over which probably was stock footage anyway.

Where am I going with this?



Well, many of those films were in development and pre production for a very, very, very long time, in some cases many years. Their budgets were in the millions and they had a lot of people involved in making them and still, they had to cut corners, they had delays, they had all the normal problems a big film production has. In some cases, there were lawsuits, during and after the production, and in all cases they had to invent their own reality, close to the historical times, but their own, nevertheless.

Yes.

Well… with the immense budget we have of less than 20,000 dollars Jac has to decide how to make the location, the cast, the crew, the art, the costumes and everything else work. One way is to bring down the shooting time to an eXtreme Minimum… from a few weeks to a few days and have everything fit into place in a good way.



The Great Story of Yahel is now set to be produced in 7 days… yes, 7 days. And the story covers two days in the lives of the Crucified Three.

The first three days of production will be dedicate to the 1st act. That’s when Yahel and her companions arrive to the Hill of Skulls, stop the stoning to death of a woman, heal a possessed man, have dinner and finally arrive to the market to have their confrontation with many people there, including Roman soldiers.

By following the story in a linear way, a lot of time will be saved. The production crew will be using three or four cameras, to have different angles for each take. Saving lot of time time too.

The other three days, four if necessary, will be dedicated to the 2nd and 3rd acts. The second act starts at the moment the three women get arrested and it goes all the way to the moment when the three are sentenced to die on the cross.



The number of people involved in the cast will be big enough but it cannot be bigly like Ben Hur, or King of Kings, or Last Temptation, not even like Jesus Christ Superstar, but enough so we can have a little crowd during the sentencing and the crucifixion.

The location itself must carry the day, not by us turning it into an ancient city with ancient buildings, like they do in Hollywood, but by staying the way it is with some little decor added for realistic effect.

In other words, we have to work miracles to bring the story of Yahel to the big screens. They are all big now, whether at the theaters or at home. Unless, of course, you watch movies on your cell phone and miss all the details.

The third act begins when the women carry their crossbeams and ends when they agonize on the cross and that’s where most of the cash will go. I will go into more details of the production as it begins to happen.



On my next post I’ll be discussing the Scourging of Yahel and the other two. The pictures I’m sharing here are from a recent MakeUp FX (effects) test that was done a couple of days ago.

It was the opportunity for our new MakeUp woman to show her talents and skills, and she demonstrated that she had what it takes to be part of the team. All Jac said to her was “I need you to create make up effects of a heavy lashing, where the whip breaks the skin“. That’s what she did, but that’s another story.



As we set on the road to produce Seditiosa, you can help us add some needed cash to our treasure box by watching our films, all of them, beginning now!

You can also join Patreon and get the updates on our projects, with great pictures and videos, here:
https://www.patreon.com/rfpix?fan_landing=true

During the production of Seditiosa we will have exclusive posts, with pictures and videos at our Patreon page. There’s a video of the MakeUp FX Test which is fascinating to watch. It shows, step by step and almost in real time, how the effects were made.

We will also post videos of all the testing we’ll go through, one particular video will be when we build the crosses and we’ll have The Crucified Three becoming acquainted with the positions they will have during their crucifixion.

You can also help by watching our amazing movies over and over again, you just have to get them.



Download our films!
https://movies.redfeline.com


Get our DVDs by mail
https://dvds.redfeline.com

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Location Location Location



Not long ago, but before all the frenzy for Pygmalion, Jac took a trip to the location for Seditiosa, a solo act except for the hired driver who took the long road, a back road, through areas that Jac didn’t know. The famed director was annoyed for most of the trip to the terrain where he plans to bring havoc to three beautiful ladies. The car journey took about 45 minutes, because of the driver’s unfamiliarity with the city. Jac became acutely aware that the poor fellow was not a paceño (from La Paz), his accent betrayed him.

When they finally arrived to the Alkamari Eco Resort Jac was relieved. His friend Miguel, the owner, was there, big hugs, and then off he went to talk to Miguel’s ex wife, who is the manager of the place. She was very please to see him, they talked about different things and then Jac explained to his hostess what he needs. She was very impressed with the film idea, the Femenine Christ. She said it gave her goose bumps. A good sign.

Then the lady mentioned her daughter, who is in college in NY, who saw what Jac did in that place back in 2013, a great scene in Dead But Dreaming, Mila’s Crucifixion. The daughter was amazed with that work, and would’ve love to be part of it. Jac mentioned that he needed more people for the new film. Carmen, that’s the manager’s name, said “I’ll talk to her, she might come for this“. The daughter is 25 and a poet.



The subject of poetry came into the conversation, when Carmen mentioned that her daughter wrote something related to spaces, the poetry of spaces, and in the young woman’s case, the claustrophobic spaces in NYC, the tiny, closet size apartments, high price tiny apartments.

The poetry of spaces concept was in Jac’s mind when a short time after his conversation with the helpful manager, he took a nice long walk through the location, capturing more of the poetry of the space in his mind and his cell phone and… yes, getting inspired by it.

Jac encountered many issues during his walk, a lot of them technical, but there was one central subject he was becoming aware of and which goes into the main structure of the story.

As Jac walked through the different areas of the location, choosing those with the potential of being the places where the different sequences will happen, he became aware of one particular aspect of his exploration.

He began his journey from the top, where he already decided the market place will be set, all the way to the bottom of the hills where many of the areas for the different sequences are located, including the possible site of the crucifixion.



If he sets the beginning of the film at the place where the thinks the crucifixion can be set, then the Crucified Three would walk from that point, all the way up to the market where they will be arrested to then be taken down to the place of the crucifixion, in other words, the film would be about their journey.

At the beginning of the film Yahel and her companions will encounter a group of people about to stone a woman and the Crucified Three intervene.

A few meters from the area that Jac thought could be the place of the crucifixion, there was some kind of hole in the ground. A perfect spot for a stoning. He envisioned the woman being dragged to the spot, pushed in there and about to be stoned to death when Yahel confronts the people. He imagined a pile of rocks on the side of the hole.



Is that where the film begins? Jac thought. Maybe something could happen before that scene. He looked back to where he was thinking setting up the crucifixion area at the border of a cliff with the view of a rocky hill on the other side. That could be a good starting point.

In this scenario, Yahel and her companions appear in the area from a pathway beneath the cliff and they come across three or four tall tree trunks, three of them empty, one has a crossbar hanging, nails on the extremes, blood around them. Below the cross there are skulls, dogs feeding on bones, and an overall a ghastly sight and at that point Yahel has a ‘vision’.

A nice opening scene before the ‘stoning’ sequence, Jac thought.



Jac walked from the ‘crucifixion site‘, going pass the ‘stoning site’, not far from it there is a construction, normally used to keep horses, not a stable as such, but intended for that purpose. Jac saw the construction from the hill high above the area sometime before. He hadn’t seen it up close and he was curious. But now that he was in front of it, he saw its potential, as well as the problems. One of those problems is the total lack of a source of electricity anywhere near it, a problem if he were to do any shooting at night in that place.

Regardless, Jac was concentrating on the journey. The ‘stables‘ are on the road up to the market after the possible crucifixion site and the ‘stoning” area.



After arriving to the crucifixion area, or calvary, and stopping the stoning, ​Yahel and her companions will continue their walk by the path behind the construction, all the way up to a different area, one with trees. That’s where the encounter with the possessed man could happen, the Third sequence in the story, where Yahel and her companions confront a group of people who drag a chained man down the hill with the intent of getting rid of him. She proceeds to heal him.

After taking care of the man and giving the man’s family the means to help him recover, the growing group of young women, now 7 of them, continue their walk to the market.



The Crucified Three finally reach the market at the top of the walk, where Yahel will get into trouble because she picks up fights with slave traders, snake oil peddlers, religious zealots, while Judith and Magdalena take issue with the Romans killing one of them.

After the confrontation at the Market, the Crucified Three are taken down again, by force this time, all the way to the execution area, stopping first at the ‘stables‘ where the scourging of the three ‘seditious’ women and Yahel’s crowning will occur, followed by the sentencing, the carrying of the patibulum all the way to the hill of skulls and finally the crucifixion of the three women.

That’s a brief summary of how the story can go. The Crucified Three go full circle from the moment they arrived to the area until they agonize nailed up upon their crosses.

Thus, after the visit to the location, the basic story was settled. It is about what happens to the crucified three when they go to the market to acquire some supplies for their work of healing people, basically, like a road movie where the events come to them each step of the way.

In that way the story will not be a grouping of random events not connected. The journey connects them all.

daelan: Really excited about the movie. Even with the low budget (unfortunately), I believe that it will be a milestone for those that enjoy crucifixion. Also, I think it has a potential to attract new members to the crux community.

A low budget film demands a lot of creativity. How to make the best production with the least of funds. In other words, where to put the little cash for best results. Tricky. I’ll discuss that in my next post.

In the meantime you can help bring up the available cash by becoming part of the production with very little.

You can join Patreon and get the updates on our projects, with great pictures and videos, here:
https://www.patreon.com/rfpix?fan_landing=true

During the production of Seditiosa we will have exclusive posts, with pictures and videos at our Patreon page. We will also post videos of all the testing we’ll go through, one particular video will be when we build the crosses and we’ll have The Crucified Three becoming acquainted with the positions they will have during their crucifixion.

You can also help by watching our amazing movies over and over again, you just have to get them


Download our films!
https://movies.redfeline.com


Get our DVDs by mail
https://dvds.redfeline.com

Very interesting description of the tasks needed to complete a video. Thanks

[EroticaWriter]

I absolutely love ambitious, artistic projects! The authenticity of the cast, the purposefulness of the writing and the enthusiasm for the story are worth more than money!

Love the concept and the storyline! I am already thinking of the sequel - where the cult of the three women grow from reality, to legend to religion.

I am very much excited to see where this goes!

[La Reine Margot]

The Scourging MakeUp FX Test



Last Thursday night came the big test of our talented MakeUp woman. When she arrived she was carrying two big bags which made Jac wonder.

Soon after, our dear Simonne arrived and got ready for the Scourging MakeUp FX Test. Basically what a good scourging will look like. The idea, in Jac’s mind, was that the wounds left by the scourging have to look like cuts skin deep.

The MakeUp woman set up a table, she had her own special light. Put out a lot of stuff on the table and got ready.

Simonne got undressed, down to her panties, she covered them with a loin cloth to better create an atmosphere, Jac set her up on her cross and proceeded to whip her some, just to give an idea to Keymi, that’s the MakeUp artist’s name, what will be happening.



After Simonne was flogged she put herself in the hands of the artist who proceeded to mark her back with deep cuts from the heavy lashing.

Keymi took what looked like a white cloth and put it on Simonne’s back, on the area where she was going to make the FX. It covered a large part of the naked back. Not all of it. For the purposes of the test it was fine. Jac thought at first that the cloth like material was something like a pattern and that it was going to be removed; but no, it was going to be transformed into Simonne’s skin.



After half an hour work Jac saw the beginning of the results, he was impressed. The previously white material was now indistinguishable from Simonne’s skin and the ‘cuts’ were pretty impressive.

​When the work was done Jac was very happy with the results. Simonne was equally impressed, she asked Jac to take a picture of her back with her cel so she could send the picture to her mother.



Although there will be more work done during the shooting of those scenes, the basic idea was there and it looked awesome, to say the least.

Jac asked Simonne to carry a crossbar on her shoulders to see the effects, she did, she walked a bit and it was amazing.

Jac did not give any directions to Keymi as to what he wanted, exactly. All he asked was for the MakeUp woman to create the effects of the lash that cut the skin of poor Yahel and that’s what our dear lady did and did it exceedingly well.



After the work, Jac talked about what he will need in the actual shooting, the kind of details, not to mention the FX during the crucifixion, the crowning and after going over those points, the meeting was over that was that.

The test took around 45 minutes, that’s the time it will take for each of the Crucified Three. The touches and details it will need after the basic work is done take very short time. So, it’s looking good.



There are some ideas going through Jac’s brain, some of which might be a bit too difficult for Simonne, so there will be the need to first test those sparks of genius at the location and under the actual work conditions, to see if she can handle it.

The traditional scourging is with the person tied to a post. Beginning from that basic concept, Jac is getting creative.

The first issue was where will it happen. In a dungeon? In a yard? In some kind of stable where they keep the horses?

That became somewhat clear after Jac studied the location and it’s different areas. The Dungeon possibility is the less likely, the ‘Stable’ type of area is the more likely but the spaces are kind of small, so he’s thinking outside the ‘stables’



One idea is that there are two posts in the “stable” area, one big and the other half that size. Magdalena would be suspended on the first one, facing it and maybe totally naked.

After Magdalena’s lashing, Judith will be tied to both, the big and the small posts, arms spread to the sides, one high up and the other one lower, a very unusual, stressful and very uncomfortable position. At this point you have two victims scourged, both in full view.

Yahel is brought in, she sees her two friends all bloody and half dead, she’s chained to the small post where she is scourged until she falls on her knees. Her feet are pulled back and raised, she’s suspended facing the ground and the scourging continues, she’s turned around and it goes on.

At the end all three of them will be in view in very odd positions.

That’s one idea Jac is playing with and it will be tested.

wanttoknowmore: Margot, nobody is expecting the film to be at the level of a Hollywood production, either in length or scope.

That said, you folks stated you could make the film “like it should be made” with a budget of $25k. It is $5k short of the goal, but at the same time, instead of multiple sites, with a much reduced logistics costs. You have said the 69 film was made for under $2k, and that one had crowd scenes as well.

You can’t speak for everyone. We don’t know what people expect. Some might expect to see 50 rabbis, all well dressed, Passion of the Christ style. A legion of Roman Soldiers, hundreds of extras… and so on. But maybe not. I just want to make clear to people who follow my rantings, and not just here, but in a bunch of places, what to expect, as far as the production.

69 had crowd scenes, sure, but we didn’t have to transport them, dress them, feed them for many days. No, they just showed up at the club the two or three nights we were shooting those scenes, they were there and then they were gone. They didn’t get paid. They were there for the fun. Almost all of them signed up for Seditiosa.

wanttoknowmore: The recent updates to the film flow also make sense, still provide a true plot, and lessen the production costs at the same time.

The sooner you complete and release the film, the sooner you will get revenue from it. The better the production quality (not to be confused with massive sets, but high level plot, dialog, and film angles), the larger the potential market.

We don’t doubt that the film will have an appeal, although our experience with Martyr was not what we expected. A film like Maleficarum and Justine are the big sellers and if you look at them, 80% of the film is torture and more torture… and more torture. 20% are the transition scenes with some dialogue, some cuteness and so on. Seditiosa has a third of the story without torture at all… then comes the arrest, the scourging, the sentencing, the carrying of the logs, the crucifixion… not exactly 80% of torture and more torture and a variety of tortures. It’s just your typical crucifixion drama as recounted on the gospels.

wanttoknowmore: So, when are you actually going to start filming? Has the casting call been done yet? Costumes fitted? Crosses made? You ask for additional support, but at every turn, we get further changes to promised dates and efforts. You might get more support if a film looks like it actually being made.

In practical terms the production has begun. The cast is all complete, 58 of them, men and women, different ages but mostly young, which is ok. Most of the roles have been assigned, some are going to be settled soon and the rest will simply be extras.

There will be a couple of meetings these days for costume fitting and scheduling for the cast and crew, not all actors have to be in the set the whole time.

The transportation has been arranged, a big bus will take everyone except part of the crew to the location. Part of the crew are going in a different van with the equipment.

The crosses will be set up when the actual shooting starts. Everything needed is in place.

Having said that, the team no longer responds to suggestions, questions, pressures. They are only responding to the needs of the production from now on. Taking care of all those perky details.

That is what dictates the time frame, the day, the hour, the very moment when the cameras start rolling; and this is the time when our team goes into a retreat from public exposure for many reasons, the main one, we don’t want disturbances when the filming starts.

When we did Barbazul and Olalla, all the public announcements came days after the filming began. In most cases the news come out after the film is done and the post production begins, to promote the new film.

We will have a press release announcing that we’re making the film without any details, not even what the story is, just mentioning that is set around the year 30 AD

In the case of Seditiosa we can’t show pictures of the cast right now because they are just about to sign their contracts and releases.

Ryan Potochnik: I Can Recall Reading In One Of Margot’s Post A Week Or So Ago That The Pre-Production Phase Should Be Done By Mid-April And Now We Are In Mid-April Or Well Past Mid-April

The pre-production phase is done, we’re now in the production phase of the project, preparing the actors, going over their lines, the demands of their roles, all those perky details, each with its own demands.

Producing a film does not consist of going to the set one day and scream “action!”

No, there are lots of preparations to set everything so when the director calls to action everything works perfectly. It not always happens that way, no matter how much you prepare, but sometimes it does.

Ryan Potochnik: @Margot I’m Financially Strapped And For That Reason, I Cannot Be Watching Your Films But However, I Might Consider Joining Patreon With The Hope That It Might Help Add Some Needed Cash To Your Treasure Box

You recently sent a postcard, of your own creation, to Jac. He kind of liked it and shared it with Amy with a little joke. “We could sell mugs with this picture to raise funds“. Amy responded “that’s not a bad idea“.

What do you think? I agree with Jac that it is a very nice, creative work and it could serve a purpose.



I’d like to make something very clear. When I talk about raising funds is just the normal thing to do. We have 20,000 dollars to make the movie. Well, a lot less than that now, because we’re already spending it in the production and I know that by the end of next week there will be less than half of that and it will be all gone before we finish the production.

The actual budget of the film, as it is now, is over 50,000 dollars. Most of the costs are deferred, always, with any of our films. Those deferred costs are paid, little by little, throughout the first year of the film’s release, if at all. Olalla covered its costs just recently and it is now making money. It was a very expensive film, with lots of extras, costumes, far away locations…. right, just like Seditiosa.

So, when I ask for support, I’m simply encouraging people to watch our movies so the cash can be flowing constantly. It’s nice to sell our films, our bank account relishes every penny that goes in and we cry every time we have to withdraw it.

Most of our earnings go to make more movies, to pay our actresses so they will be willing to do some heavy suffering for your enjoyment and beginning now they will be entering a new dimension of suffering the agonies of the cross, all naked and in front of a bunch of people. They deserve what they get… And I mean the compensation for their suffering.



So, go ahead and jump on the wagon to take this film to its amazing finale… and you can do that by watching our movies with amazing finales, all them end in nasty crucifixions, you should see them…

You can also join Patreon and get the updates on our projects, with great pictures and videos, here:
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During the production of Seditiosa we will have exclusive posts, with pictures and videos at our Patreon page. There’s a video of the MakeUp FX Test which is fascinating to watch. It shows, step by step and almost in real time, how the effects were made.

We will also post videos of all the testing we’ll go through, one particular video will be when we build the crosses and we’ll have The Crucified Three becoming acquainted with the positions they will have during their crucifixion.

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[La Reine Margot]

Seditiosa Takes Over The Location



There’s a saying in Spanish, Otra Cosa Es Con Guitarra, which can be translated as it’s a whole different thing with Guitar in hand. … Kind of.

It is one thing to think of something and another to actually do it.

All is well in the production front. The work is advancing at its normal pace with many interesting surprises and even better than we expected considering we had a major issue last week.

During the try outs to assign the roles to the cast, some inspirational moments came into play. Some of the new actresses proved to be a source of ideas which were incorporated into the story.

All that inspiration meant that Jac had to create a pathos for those characters on the spot and to figure out their arch in the story. A task in itself, but a great task because what was a great idea with great possibilities, it is turning into a truly solid and amazing story.

There are almost 30 women in the cast and an almost equal number of men, which make things interesting, challenging and somewhat costly.

And that’s not all!

As the team worked on the preparations of the production, all those perky details, like the costumes for 60 people, all the props to fill up the market… yes we have a market to fill up with goods, all kinds of goods, from ancient times, the ideas kept rolling down the hills of creativity. Visual ideas, dialogue ideas, action ideas… all of them as a result of the preparation work.

But that’s not the most interesting part of what happened!


Jac and Victor, the Art Director, visited the location to plan all the work needed. The visit was full of surprises. They took the same walk Jac journeyed during his previous visit and at each area Victor had suggestions and ideas.

When they talked about the crucifixion posts, the distance between them and all of those practical issues, Victor was also full of ideas and advice, he even mentioned he has the tools to do the work properly, he told Jac exactly how deep the posts should be, how they will be align and everything else.

When they were at the market area, they took a lot of time to go over, measuring the spaces to calculate all the material it needs, and so on. Again, Victor was full of suggestions and ideas for all the different shots that are possible in the space. One phrase he had was ‘in the interest of the shot‘

When they were done and were about to leave, the spirit of creative curiosity took over. They walked around areas that Jac ignored before ending up in a construction that he didn’t think was of any use but boy he was wrong.

They approached the construction. Jac saw the windows with metallic barns, which are not good for the film, but that could be easily covered.



They came upon a very low door it was not locked, they ventured in and oh my goddess, Victor could hear Jac’s thoughts, they were so clear. The interior of the ignored construction was perfect for the dungeon that Jac had in mind at the beginning of this adventure. He discarded it because there was no area in the location, that he knew of, that could serve as a dungeon. That’s why he settled for the ‘stables’ area.

The possible dungeon location had some intriguing elements inside, one in particular, a ladder that went up to what our creative adventurers thought was to climb to an upstairs room, but no, it went OUT OF THE PLACE to the roof, which can be set as a stage like area. Oh my goddess… Jac thought again to himself, or maybe even said it and maybe Victor heard it because he agreed.



He checked the stage area and it was perfect for the SENTENCING! Another scene that was changed as far as its possibilities because there was no area appropriate for what the original idea called for.

He envisioned the sentencing sequence with the new discoveries in mind.

Yahel and her companions are arrested at the market, not far from the construction. They are taken to the dungeon, up to the area where the opening for the ladder is, they are forced down the ladder to the dungeon where they are scourged. That scene grew in its possibilities.



After the scourging, subsequent crowning, and so on, The Crucified Three are forced to climb out of the dungeon to the sentencing area, where they are led to the edge to be in front of people waiting to hear what will happen to the women.

Yahel and her companions are up on a stage-like area, facing the crowd below and they are sentenced. After the sentencing they are forced to take their crossbeams and walk the entire walk they had before, when they went up to the market, but now in the opposite direction, to the crucifixion area, where it all started. A very, very long walk

When Jac was in front of that possibility, his creative powers went full throttle. When discussing his ideas with Victor, the talkative art director became so impressed that he could not believe that it was happening. He was witnessing the power of imagination creating art in front of his very eyes, making him express his feelings with that’s filmmaking!

When the visit to the location was over, everything that Jac had initially thought and felt it was not possible, was now not only a reality, but better than what he originally envisioned. .

The location is perfect, the cast is perfect, the time to make it happen was the right time. Jac’s vision was complete. It couldn’t be better.

The team was all set to move into the location to begin the work, beginning with the building of the crosses, producing a test scene with the protagonists, which included bringing in the Make Up artist to work on Mila and Dani, to cover those tattoos, and have a real sense of how long it takes to do both of them.

The night before the scheduled day, Friday, Jac woke up in the middle of the night because a huge storm made so much noise that it scare the cats. It was huge, a mixture of rain, hail and snow, accompanied by loud thunder, bright strokes of lighting, the works. A combination not seen often in Jac’s side of the world.

He hoped that the rain would stop before his scheduled ‘walk with Rocky‘ (the dog), the daily activity set for early morning, before his crew was scheduled to arrive.

The rain didn’t stop. He couldn’t take Rocky out, his crew could not leave home. And it rained, and it hailed, and it snowed all day long, and it continued through Saturday and Sunday. It was so huge that it made the news and social media filled up with anecdotal pictures:



Roads were blocked, the landscape was amazingly beautiful, a treat for the eyes, and it was freezing cold. So… the plans for that weekend were cancelled.

One week later, the sun was up, luckily, no clouds, no rain, no snow, but the air was and is, still, very, very cold, but needless to say, part of the team ventured to the location, with the plan to accomplished at least some of what was planned for the previous Friday. Jac decided to scheduled their adventure for a Saturday, but in the afternoon, just in case. So, at the scheduled day, the team went to take over the location.

After one and a half hour drive, the team arrived to Alkamari, the site where everything will take place. Almost immediately, the tasks were assigned. The Art Director and his Assistant were in charge of carrying the incredibly heavy 4, 5 meters long logs for the crosses from the top of the location to the far away crucifixion area where they will be planted. A huge, time consuming task because they had to cover a very long distance over a rough hilly terrain taking each of the posts one by one.

Victor’s comment about the uprights for the crosses was: They are perfectly old but need some make-up to make them look hideous!

He also said that he has the tools to make those patibulums and make them fit the uprights. Now, that’s a time and money saver, Jac thought.



Jac had a meeting with Carmen, the manager of the place, to settle all that needed to be settled. The agreement was reached, the dates were set, taking into account the imponderables, like the weather or anything that cannot be predicted. There were some requests for a couple of the dates, like the 27th of May, Mother’s day in Bolivia, when the area will have more people visiting than usual, so that date and the dates around it should be used to shoot with the least number of people possible. No large crowds.

After that brief meeting everything was in our team’s hands to do whatever they wanted to do from that day forward, through all of May and even June if that became necessary… which was music in Jac’s ears, the kind of music Roger Corman or Jess Franco heard when they took hold of a location and were told that Time Was Not A Problem… Jac could take all the time he wanted and could afford, the possibilities were endless!

Two of our protagonists were at hand that day, Dani and Simonne. Mila had some urgent things that day.

Dani and Keymi, the Make-Up artist, went into the cottage that was selected for changing into costumes, doing make up, storing things, resting and anything else needed, to have Dani’s tattoos covered. That activity was going to be timed to determine the length of time it will take for that job.

Jac and Simonne, who was already dressed as Yahel, walked all the way to the crucifixion area where the story will begin. As they walked, Jac took the opportunity to do some shooting of our heroine getting familiar with her surroundings, her world. They walked down the many hills discussing her role as well.



A couple of days before this adventure, Jac and Victor went over what was needed for the crosses, the most critical elements in the story. They have to be perfect. They also went over all the materials needed for the Market, which is a lot of stuff to make it look very good. It involves cases worth of materials.

As they checked everything, one thing became clear, they had to test the logs they got for the crossbeams. Jac and Victor themselves checked them, putting them over their shoulders. The big logs were heavier than the logs Jac used in other films, a lot heavier. Jac got worried that they were too heavy for the protagonists. Jac decided that the protagonists should carry the heavy logs over their shoulders climbing up a hill with them as a test.



When Dani was ready to go to work, after Keymi finished the job of covering her tattoos, not all of them, just what Jac wanted to see, she joined Jac and Simonne.

Jac decided to shoot part of one scene where Yahel and Judith have an interesting and lengthy dialogue about Janai, Yahel’s ancestor, who appears in front of our Heroine a lot.



After they were done with the scene, Jac told them that they were going to carry the logs up a hill and with less clothing than what they were wearing. Obedient as they are, they took off part of their clothing, it was freezing cold and Dani was screaming about it as she walked to take her position to walk up the hill. It was fun, it’s all on video and we will be sharing that moment. We won’t share the scenes, just The Making Of some scenes, or tests, or anything like that. Not the actual scenes. There was a lot of laughter when they were testing their crossbeams. Victor was amazed at the energy and strength Simonne and Dani had.



Our team is now officially in control of the location and the shooting of the film has begun with parts of the first scene. The shooting will go on in full force this coming Saturday.

On Friday the crosses will be finally set in place with everything that’s necessary to accomplish the job of having beautiful ladies nailed to them. Setting that up involves a lot of work and it was decided that Victor needed at least two more assistants to have those crosses up and ready along with all the decorative things needed, like the skulls and bones.



The shooting of the film has officially begun. It will take at least 7 production days for the whole film to be completed and depending on how Jac organizes the schedule, based on what each sequence requires and the new information he has now, It should be done by June 4th. Jac has a tight schedule but he knows things can happen, so he’s not going to be freaky about it. He wants to work on every sequence with the utmost care, sparing nothing. Each day of production will dictated the next. But he has the first two days scheduled in a way that it will give him a real taste of how long he needs to work on each scene. Those two first days will not involve large numbers of people. He decided to work with the smaller scenes at the beginning, like the stoning and the healing of the ‘possessed man’, which does not involve more that 15 actors each, maybe less, saving the large crowds for later dates.

The scourging and crowning scenes will take a lot of work because of the make up and everything that is involved and it will probably take two days.



Jac is concentrating on getting the scenes for Saturday and Sunday ready.

Saturday will be a nice shooting day with only four members of the cast involved, Simonne (Yahel), Dani (Judith), Mila (Magdalena) and Geraldine (Janai) to complete The Opening Sequence. At the end of the day the Crucified Three will be put on their crosses to make sure the set up works the way it should.

Sunday will be dedicated to the Stoning Sequence, The Healing of the Possessed Man, and ‘Gethsemane‘ scene where Yahel confronts her fate. In those two days almost a third of the film will be in the can.



The production of Seditiosa is ON!

It wont be long before I’ll have the great news that the production was wrapped.

We can use your support.

During the production we will have exclusive posts, with pictures and videos at our Patreon page. We are featuring a nice and fun clip of Simonne and Dani testing their crossbeams.

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[La Reine Margot]

Toiling Under The Bright Sun



After much organizing, budgeting, getting all the stuff needed, planting the posts for the crosses, fitting the actors with their costumes, dealing with the location and a lot more which is hard to list because it is so much, the production of the Female Christ film titled Seditiosa went into full production.

The plan is to follow the story in a chronological order, something not common in filmmaking, because it lends itself to that. The main characters will go through the story as it is told.

It began nicely enough, with Yahel, Judith and Magdalena arriving to the Hill of Skulls, where they see the ominous posts, one an empty cross. Below the cross a dog eats the flesh out of a big bone, a skull lies near it.



The Crucified To Be arrive to the area and each reveals their character. Yahel has a vision while Judith curses the Romans. Magdalena, however, the most pragmatic of the three, has none of it, and insists they have nothing to do there and they should get on their way.

And that’s how the shooting began, establishing the characters and setting the story.

Somethings became very clear. On the problematic side, the sun was incredibly bright and it will be like that for a long time. No clouds! There was wind, cold wind coming down from the snowy Andean range. The crew had to adapt to those circumstances.

Another issue is time. There are two main characters with lots of tattoos, so it takes time to cover them and that is now part of the scheduling. Our team knows how long it takes to do that.

The shooting began with two cameras, the plan is to have a third one and maybe even a fourth. A lot was accomplished in the first days of production. Many scenes are in the can now and Jac has begun the work of assembling those scenes and cutting them. He has the two first scenes already in first cut, with sound FX and music. It’s not like the final cut, but pretty close. He’ll have all the shot scenes in rough cut before he starts shooting the next few scenes.


The main cast having some fun during production. They know what’s coming, so they might as well enjoy themselves.

During the first days of production it became clear what can be accomplished in one day. The conditions of working in that location, which are fine, have their own and very clear possibilities and limitations which must taken into account so the location can be used to its full extent and then there’s the matter of the light… the sun does not respect shooting plans, it comes and goes at its own irreversible schedule.

The cast is working very well. Jac knew what to expect from the three leading ladies and their initial scenes were pretty easy to do. He didn’t know what to expect from the rest of the cast, most of them are new to him. The big test came when he worked on the stoning scene. The woman to be stoned was great and showed great potential for future movies. She even intimated that she could do partly nude scenes… after saying that she wouldn’t. One thing was clear at the end of the day, she loved it.



So, the film is now ongoing. It’s looking good, in a low budget kind of way, we can’t have thousands of extras, not even hundreds, and even the dogs are not showing up as we wish they would, we were hoping for at least four… no, just one showed up at shooting time.

One person, the driver perhaps, asked a question about the accuracy of the area with what the film is portraying. He is aware that the film is the story of a Female Christ in the year 30 AD or so. Jac’s response was simple. It’s an alternate universe. It feels right.

When Jac was directing the scene where Yahel confronts the high priest, she responds in a defiant way to what he says, which basically is ‘you should occupy the place God gave you as a woman and not interfere with us men‘. Not literally, of course. She responds I occupy the place the mother gave me, far from the men that abuse her Word.



We’ll see what the future holds. It’s very inspiring to be in the middle of a new production with a big cast, in a great place, with an amazing story. We wished we had raised more funds to overcome the limitations that come from not having a lot of cash, as The Rutles sing “all we need is cash” to make a great movie greater.

We should have a new campaign Make A Great Movie Greater… hmmm

We’re considering fundraising again, to cover some extra costs, to the tune of 5,000, maybe with pre-sales of the film. The way I see it, if Jac already has the first scenes cut before he shoots another bunch, it’s very possible that the film will be ready at the end of July.

However, our release date is, still, August 2023.

The production of Seditiosa is ON!

I insist, it wont be long before I’ll have the great news that the production was wrapped.

We can use your support!

During the production we will have exclusive posts, with pictures and videos at our Patreon page. We will be featuring more fun clips of the production.

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Thank you for the detailed updates La Reine Margot. They are fascinating!

[La Reine Margot]

The Healer In Our Midst



I can say with a good level of certainty that this past weekend shoot of new scenes for Seditiosa was a success. I say this with a little bit of trepidation, I don’t want to ginx things and although I’m not superstitious, I’m too well educated academically for that, I still have those ancient feelings that are passed from generation to generation.

I can also add that those superstitions endlessly taught from one generation to the next are exactly the subjects which are now a very strong part of the story of Yahel, when she confronts the believes, fears, conflicts of the people she encounters on her way to the market.

This past weekend Yahel spent some good time healing Debora, the rape victim, who was beaten when she went through that awful experience and was about to be stoned to death because of it when Yahel intervened to saved her, earning the hatred from those in power in the process.



While healing Debora, Yahel took part in the discussions her companions were having about whether it is good for women to learn how to write and read. Debora was very clear on the negative effects of defying men. She had a close encounter with them and she wanted to make sure her benefactors understood what they were facing.

Their discussions were interrupted by the screaming of some people who were running after a fellow who was attempting to jump off a cliff. They were struggling to catch him and hold him down where Yahel and her companions reacted and went to help .



​The man himself, his friends and sister are under the supposition that he’s possessed by a Dibuk, a spirit in the Hebrew traditions. Yahel gets more information from them about what happened to the man. She learns that he was found in that state after a prolonged time in the desert where he got lost. When he was finally found, he was screaming, biting, talking nonsense, obviously under the powers of the Dibuk. Yahel knew better and proceeded to help him.



That’s a gist of what was accomplished this weekend.

The production is advancing at a pretty good rate. The scenes schedule next are the Gethsemani sequence, which is not very complicated, and The Market sequence which is going to be the more complicated so far, involving a large cast, a complex set with a lot of stuff in it, including a scene where a beautiful slave is up for sale, some merchants selling the equivalent of ‘snake oil’ and other situations that make Yahel create a series of conflicts which bring about some elaborate action scenes that involve the killing of a Roman soldier and the arrest of the crucified three.

The Market sequence will take a lot more effort and time and it has to be that way. That is when the story takes a turn for the worse. After this sequence things will get really tough for everyone, for the principal cast, for the crew, for the characters, for the director, everyone bar none.

I’m pretty sure Jac will handle that well, not only because of his extensive experience, but also because he has already learned a lot about his cast, his crew, the location, the climate… everything. He knows what to expect from everyone, how far they can go in a day, where are their strengths and their weaknesses. He can estimate with a good degree of accuracy how the next days of shooting will go. He also knows how long he needs to get it right and how to handle it.



Things are working well and we expect to continue to be like that. The cast and the crew are doing a fantastic job.

The production of Seditiosa is ON!


We can use your support!


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