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Le Marquis de la Croix – REVIEWED BY CHARLES LONBERGER
Le Marquis de la Croix REVIEWED BY CHARLES LONBERGER This intense and focused Bolivian production,...
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The illustrated version of C Dean Andersson’s review of Dead But Dreaming
Jac Avila’s Dead but Dreaming does for Vampire Films what Coppola’s Apocalypse Now did for...
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Dead But Dreaming – REVIEWED BY CHARLES LONBERGER
Dead But Dreaming REVIEWED BY CHARLES LONBERGER The cinema of Bolivian cineaste Jac Avila is a monolith of personality and thought and fashions grand, epic statements that, at best, summarize entire genres (as in Maleficarum, the final word in Inquisition cinema). His work has also evolved into commercial products that portray enduring fetishes that cannily transcend specific cultures in their… Read more →
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Dead But Dreaming review by Mike Haberfelner
Dead But Dreaming Bolivia 2013 review by Mike Haberfelner La Paz, Bolivia, the early 1800’s: A series of killings in which the victims’ throats are brutally torn open shock the city that’s already on edge due to a brooding rebellion against the Spanish crown, and the ever-growing fear of a uprising of the oppressed indigenous population. Officially, the killings are attributed… Read more →
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Dead But Dreaming, Part 1: Blood and Desire by Rich Moreland
Dead But Dreaming, Part 1: Blood and Desire by Rich Moreland, May 2016 This is my first attempt to deconstruct a film outside the adult genre. I happened across producer/director/actress Amy Hesketh’s work and decided to give one of her recent films, Dead But Dreaming, a go. Amy is a ground breaker, portraying the archetypal innocent victim with an honest,… Read more →
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Dead But Dreaming, Part 2: Lamia by Rich Moreland,
Dead But Dreaming, Part 2: Lamia by Rich Moreland, May 2016 Joining Amy Hesketh in Dead But Dreaming is French Veronica Paintoux who began her career with Pachamama Films in the early 1990s and La Paz native Mila Joya is who has shot for the studio since 2010. She stars with Amy in Maleficarum, a film directed by Jac Avila. These three… Read more →
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Sirwiñakuy
“What is most significant about this remarkable film from 2010 is how completely director Amy Hesketh absorbs and makes cinematic conventions her own, breaking them at will, such as her insertion of sped up footage though back streets to bridge scenes, as opposed to standard editing practices. Though her approach is an exercise in masterful storytelling, she boldly turns to documentary techniques when her fiction leads to an open Andean market, where whips are sold as common merchandise. Despite her employment of cinematic narrative traditions, her approach is also symbolic, with the Andes, whose culture she drew upon for her basic premise, hovering over the landscape in the background, and in red high heels that represent Woman’s sexual nature.” CHARLES LONBERGER
Synopsis
Anouk is French, she’s 30, she’s in Bolivia. A massive demonstration is taken place outside the charming café where she’s talking to a friend.
Luis, Bolivian, 50, is observing her terrible table manners. His companion won’t shut up about his travel ordeals. When they are both alone, Luis approaches Anouk and simply asks her to go with him. She does.
Luis takes Anouk to her rented room, asks her to pack her things. She does.
Anouk moves in with Luis. She doesn’t quite understand why she’s in an old house full of books, antiques and crumbling walls, with a man almost twice her age, of whom she doesn’t even know his name.
When he spanks her, her curiosity grows, she wonders how far she will go.
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Veronica Paintoux, Jac Avila, Erik Antoine, Beto Lopez L., Alfredo Lopez C., Chuqui El Gato.
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Amy Hesketh
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Amy Hesketh
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| Produced By |
Jac Avila, Amy Hesketh, Roberto Lopez L.
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Sirwiñakuy from VermeerWorks on Vimeo.
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Martyr Or The Death Of St Eulalia
With the release of this boldly offbeat study in a failing relationship in 2005, Pachamama Films announced themselves on the World Stage. For a company that conjoins European and South American sensibilities, it was somehow appropriate that the two continents would meet halfway, filming the downbeat tale in New York (…) The film succeeds because of the confident direction of Jac Avila, which treats a contemporary personal journey as it were an Illustrated Manuscript, thereby adapting the Medieval to the contemporaneous. Employing super impositions, and intimate hand-held shots, his primary perspective is omnipotent in its bird’s eye views. While the cumulative effect is of moodiness, his scene of Camille’s crucifixion is convincing. Interestingly, he suggests modeling to be a form of Martyrdom. Review of Martyr by Charles Longberger
Martyr Or The Death Of St Eulalia
(USA – 2005 – Drama)
Directed by
Jac Avila
A Pachamama Films Production
A VermeerWorks Release
Synopsis:
As the postmodern world is stormed by an onslaught of religious fundamentalism and resurrected holy wars, Camille, a 21st century young French woman, experiences the passion of a 3rd century virgin martyr.
Cast
Carmen Paintoux,
Mikael Trodoux
Natacha Petrovich
Veronica Paintoux
Erik Antoine
Jac Avila
Written and Directed By
Jac Avila
Produced By
Jac Avila
Percy Johannes
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Maleficarum
Maleficarum is the story of Francisca, a wealthy orphan and Mariana, her widowed protestant friend, who live surrounded by a town in which they are the center of hostile gossip.
Francisco Verdugo, the Inquisitor, has his own ambitions. He has his greedy eyes on the orphan heiress’s properties, but he needs a pretext.
A confrontation in the street among a group of girls gives him the perfect excuse to arrest Mariana and Francisca and enchain them in the horror chambers of the Inquisition, leading them to a frightful end as they are convicted of witchcraft.
Directed by
Jac Avila
Writing by
Jac Avila
Cast
Amy Hesketh – Mariana de Castro
Mila Joya – Francisca de la Cruz
Roberto Lopez – Father Francisco Verdugo
Alejandro Loayza – Brother Rodrigo de Palomares
Eric Calancha – Torturer
Omar Aldayuz – Prosecutor
Roberto Carlos Velasquez – Torturer’s Assistant
Maria Esther Arteaga – Josefa Maria Flores
Claudia Moscoso – Dona Beatriz de Trejo
Barbara Dorado – Maria de las Nieves
Manuel Rebollo – Diego Ascencio de Vera
Vanessa Calvimontes – Isabel Petrona Arteaga
Sergio Fernandez – Tomás de Araujo
Erika Saavedra – Maria Antonia de Castañeda
Fermin Nuñez – Don Juan de Gauna
Gina Alcon – Doña Mayor de Luna
Massiel Dorado – Luisa de Catellón
Ariel Enriquez – Tomás de la Puente Vernel
Rubi Mujica – Isabel de Porras
Carlos Izek Kahan – Soldier
Marcelo Quiroga – Soldier
Erly Illanes – Soldier
Andrea Galvarro – Beatriz’s friend
Diana Zapata – Beatriz’s friend
Danitza Lora – Neighbor
Cecilia Rocabado – Neighbor
Valdicia Yaroslav – Neighbor
Erix Antoine – His Excellency
Produced by
Jac Avila
Amy Hesketh
Associate Producer
Roberto Lopez … associate producer (as Roberto Lopez L.)
Dave Parker …
Wilsson Asturizaga – Associate producer
Cinematography by
Miguel Inti Canedo … director of photography
Film Editing by
Jac Avila
Costume Design by
Amy Hesketh … (uncredited)
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Mariela Salaverry …
assistant director (as Mariela Sasha Salaverry)
Art Department
Amy Hesketh … wooden props (uncredited)
Sound Department
Erly Illanes … soundC
amera and Electrical Department
Erly Illanes … lighting
Costume and Wardrobe Department
Mila Joya … assistant costume designer (uncredited)
Other crew
Wilsson Asturizaga … production assistant
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Barbazul
A co-production of Pachamama Films and Decadent Cinema.
Based on the children’s story “La barbe bleue” (1697) written by Charles Perrault.
Barbazul, the wealthy owner of a vineyard, loves women… he just can’t stop killing them!
One by one he stalks his prey. His intentions are pure, he only wants to be loved, but on his terms.
Amy Hesketh reimagines the children’s story of Bluebeard as a twisted and sexually-charged thriller for grown-ups…
When Soledad, a young model struggling to make ends meet, is proposed marriage by wealthy landowner Barbazul it seems like a fairy tale dream come true… He whisks her away to his vineyard in the beautiful countryside; and gives her the keys to his kingdom. She is free to roam this idyllic playground to her heart’s content, with only one proviso: “Don’t open the door to my secret room.”
Then Barbazul goes away on a business trip. And Soledad opens that door…
And the horror begins.
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Veronica Paintoux, Jac Avila, Mila Joya, Paola Denisse Teran, Erika Ingrid Saavedra, Amy Hesketh, Beto Lopez, Erik Antoine
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Amy Hesketh
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Amy Hesketh
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Watch Barbazul at VIMEO:
Bluebeard (Barbazul) from VermeerWorks on Vimeo.
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Le Marquis De La Croix
Amy Hesketh takes the director’s chair for the third time to direct Jac Avila and Mila Joya in her new film Le Marquis de la Croix.
After her intense experience with Barbazul, Amy felt more daring this time. She was going to ask more from her actors.
Jac and Amy inspired by the writings of the Marquis de Sade, came up with an idea. They thought “we have the set, the props, the costumes, so, why not make another movie?”
Casting was not difficult. Mila had proven herself in Maleficarum and Barbazul and she was willing to be put through hell one more time. Jac was not against the idea of playing a deranged Marquis. He enjoyed playing the equally if not more maniac Barbazul very much and he felt that he could become De La Croix, channeling one of his most admired writers the Marquis de Sade.
Amy set out to direct Jac and Mila in a tale of mad, sadistic passion. The shooting took only two weeks during May of 2011.
The story
The Marquis de la Croix is imprisoned in a dark and humid dungeon where he has certain privileges. He’s a Marquis, after all. He writes, eats well, enjoys the best wine and furnishes and decorates his cell
The best of his privileges is that he gets women. And not just any woman. He gets women who are condemned to die and who are given a choice: Death or to spend the rest of their short lives with Le Marquis.
Mila plays Zinga, a gypsy woman who chooses the infamous Marquis over death by the guillotine. It doesn’t take long for her to wish she had chosen the big knife instead.
Le Marquis de la Croix is a production of Decadent Cinema.
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Dead But Dreaming
The year is 1805, the city of Nuestra Señora de La Paz lives in fear of an invasion from the indigenous population, and – within its walls – a rebellion is brewing against the Spanish crown. If this were not enough, a beautiful vampire is terrorizing the population, leaving a bloodbath in her wake.
A young Irish spy, on a mission for the rebels, is found near the body of a victim. She is captured, accused of the murders, publicly flogged and sentenced to die by garrote.
Wishing to aid in the rebellion, a novice nun is prevented from following in the spy’s footsteps by her uncle – a Franciscan priest – who believes she should help him instead to combat the “demons” plaguing the city.
And lurking in the shadows, an ancient vampire is in relentless pursuit of the mysterious being who initially turned him – as he searches for the source of her power in a quest to become all powerful and conquer all.
All of these stories interweave in this epic horror adventure, spanning thousands of years.
Dead But Dreaming from VermeerWorks on Vimeo.
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Olalla
Olalla from VermeerWorks on Vimeo.
OLALLA
A film by Amy Hesketh
Sinopsis
The new and provocative film by Amy Hesketh, based in the story by Robert Louis Stevenson, tells the story of a gothic and decadent family of genetic vampires who need human blood to survive and prolong their lives, and where incest is the only way to maintain the family line. They don’t mix with the outside world and when they do the consequences can be disastrous.
The film centers in the avatars of Olalla, her daughters, Olalla and Ofelia and her brother Felipe. Both, Olalla the mother and Olalla the daughter, both interpreted by Amy Hesketh, are somewhat fractious, they can’t control their impulses thus endangering the entire family.
Hesketh starts her story where Stevenson’s ends. A new guest arrives to the family’s hacienda starting a struggle for the attentions of Olalla between the new comer and Felipe, the vampire’s brother. Olalla sinks deeply in her madness and unable to control her tenebrous instincts, first attacks Roberto, the guest, and soon after the village’s priest. That act is the last straw for the terrified villagers who storm the hacienda, capture Olalla, tying her to a cross, whipping her and burning her alive.
A century later, the surviving daughters, Olalla y Ofelia, genetic vampires age very slowly, live isolated from the world around them, staying away from any danger. When Olalla, seeking a normal life, moves away from her family, finds a lover, but can’t help herself from killing him, placing herself and her family in danger.
Ofelia calls uncle Felipe who attempts to teach a hard lesson to Olalla, punishing her for her transgressions. Will Felipe be able to control Olalla and thus save the family? Or will he eliminate her, as Ofelia insists?
CAST
Amy Hesketh
Jac Avila
Mila Joya
Erix Antoine
Alejandro Loayza A.
Roberto Lopez L.
Maria Esther Arteaga
Fermin Nuñez
Luis Almanza
Eric Calancha
Cristian del Rio
Rosario Huanca
Valeria Huanca
Pablo Paravicini
Rhobess Pierre
Directed by: Amy Hesketh
Producers: Jac Avila, Amy Hesketh
Associate Producers: Roberto Lopez L., Rodrigo León León, Dr. Jörg Steinmüeller, Eric Calancha, Jim Grundy
Director of Cinematography: Miguel Inti Canedo
Sound: Rodrigo León León
Editing: Jac Avila
Music: Cristian del Rio, Emillie Simon, Alfred Schnittke
Sound Mix: Tomas Cazalas, Juan Manuel Perez
Music recored at: Elastic Groove
Assistant to the director Milagros Agreda
Production assistants: Eric Calancha, Jaime Huanca, Alejandro Loayza.
Location assistant: David Choque
Location manager: Gina Alcon, Jesus Relos
Hair and Make up: Sol Calle, Gina Alcon
Locations: La Paz, Hotel Museo Cayara, Potosí – Bolivia
©MMXV VermeerWorks LLC
Olalla from VermeerWorks on Vimeo.
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Justine
Close your eyes. And step into my dungeon…
Can you hear the screams?
The WAILS of ecstasy!
The CRACK of the whip!
The SQUEAL of the rack!
Welcome to my playground…You may think you know the story of De Sade’s JUSTINE. But not like this one.
Because this is Jac Avila’s JUSTINE: A shockingly erotic experience more sadistic than De Sade himself.
Meet innocent Justine: Beaten, bloody and naked— she’s locked in the stocks after 50 lashes and the abuse of many men. Now, she awaits execution for a crime she did not commit. Or, did she?
Come along with Justine on her deviant journey, as she escapes from prison with a band of thieves, only to be passed into the clutches of various depraved men, who torture and enslave her in bouts of sex and thrilling scandals at the hands of perverted aristocracy.
Until Justine is finally sold into the torture playground of the brutal and sadistic Rodin, who further violates her by inflicting hideous torture upon torture alongside his resigned daughter and reluctant but sex-crazed female servant.
Ultimately, everyone becomes a pawn in this sick and twisted game of cruelty, culminating in the ultimate savage sacrifice.
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Specters Of Blood Castle
A Film in progress
A writer from the US travels to the rain forrest of Bolivia, to an ancient castle built by war prisoners. It is said that the castle is haunted.
The writer is researching the story of a couple who lived in the castle in the 1930’s. Legend tells that the couple died in mysterious circumstances.
The young woman breaks into the castle to write her book while capturing the atmosphere of the place and its surroundings.
On her first night she’s visited by a woman who may be a ghost.
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Pygmalion
A megalomaniacal film director thinks that he can create the perfect woman and get over his ex by casting a female street violinist in his bizarre version of the famous play Pygmalion.
Pygmalion will be released theatrically in 2022
Directed by Amy Hesketh
Written by Jac Avila
Produced by Jac Avila and Amy Hesket
Cinematography by Miguel Inti Canedo
Cast
- Mila Joya: Vera / Elisa Doolittle
- Jac Avila: Hendrix / Higgins
- Amy Hesketh: Heather / Ms. Pickering
- Eric Calancha: Alfredo Doolittle
- Beatriz Rivera: Penelope /Clara
- Roberto Lopez: Coronel Higgins
- Alejandro Loayza: Alan
- Erix Antoine: Tony Marino
- Ruzandra Calin: Melodica
- Fermin Nuñez: Journalist
- Miguel Angel BellotProductor
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