Wrapping up Le Marquis.

Miguel focused the lens on a close up of Amy and began to raise the crane, slowly, from a close up of Amy's face to a long shot of her body while she let out a piercing scream. After a few moments Jac said CUT and that was it, the production of a new film, Le Marquis de la Croix was over. It was the only time, during the production, that Jac took the reigns of the scene because the director of the movie, Amy Hesketh, was all tied up and screaming.

The cast and the crew present at that moment let out an applause for a job well done. The shooting of this movie took two weeks to the date, Saturday, April 30th in the year of 2011. Later that evening the cast and crew of the film went to Jac and Amy's house for a wrap up party that lasted until four in the morning. We had beer, rum, whiskey, martinis galore. Fun for all. It was a well deserved party. We also celebrated Amy's birthday.

Le Marquis de la Croix is the third production that we wrapped this year, so far. It's the third feature of the director of Sirwiñakuy, the most controversial, attacked, admired Bolivian film. And if Sirwiñakuy created such a stir, we think that Le Marquis will make some people throw fits and for a lot of reasons.

Le Marquis de la Croix is inspired by the writings of the controversial philosopher, writer known universally as the Marquis de Sade.

The film rests on the shoulders of Mila Joya, who has protagonist roles in Barbazul and Maleficarum, who plays Zinga, a gypsy woman trapped in the underworld of the infamous Marquis and the well known filmmaker and actor Jac Avila, who plays the role of the celebrated Marquis.

A recap is in order.

Last year, while Sirwiñakuy was still playing, we began shooting Maleficarum. An inquisition movie extravaganza, with 30 actors, a big crew, costumes, props and incredible locations. And yet, it was not a huge budget, but it was big for our low budget standards.

We had plan a two week shoot for that movie, but as we began the pre-production it was obvious that it would take longer. After 10 days of shooting Maleficarum Veronica Paintoux, the star of Sirwiñakuy arrived to shoot yet another movie. Barbazul. That too required a good number of actors, far away locations and some large expenses.

Maleficarum was interrupted and off we went to Chivisivi, the location of Barbazul for a two week shoot in complete isolation from the world. We didn't have television, cell phone or internet access. We were in the past.

We finished shooting both films this year, at the beginning of the year. But not happy with those two accomplishments, we decided to add to our work load with yet another movie: Le Marquis De La Croix, which is the film we finished shooting Saturday evening before our wrap up party.

Before we started shooting Le Marquis, we released Martyr for a limited run at the Cinemateca before its worldwide release in DVD. Yes, this film can be considered a direct to DVD movie. Why? Because that's where its audience is. In fact I can actually say that most audiences are in the VOD/DVD market and that's world wide. Le Marquis is also going directly to DVD release.

There's a legitimate, loyal, VOD/DVD market for our films out in the wide world of the web. The web has made the planet smaller and easy to reach.

And if there's a question to why we're making so many movies in such a hurry? The answer is because there's such thing as a supply and demand law. We found a niche, a market and a demand for our movies and we're just doing what any producer in our shoes would do. We're making the movies that we would like to see and that some people with similar taste will be willing to pay to see.

We're preparing three more productions for this year, but of that I'll brag about later on this month.

I'm just happy we finished shooting our third feature film in less than six months.