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Your new movie The
Insurrection - in a few words, what is it about?
It’s about a CEO from large telecom company who exposes her company's
secrets as to why and how they use movies as tools of indoctrinating the
public into left wing political propaganda. She hires an ex-commando to
protect her long enough to get her message out. With
The Insurrection
being about a global conspiracy - to what extent have you based your movie
on actual conspiracy theories, and have you done much research on the
subject? I don’t know about political conspiracies or pharmaceutical,
or agricultural conspiracies, but have been in the movie business for many
years. I’m an expert and a full time professional film maker. Sadly that
means I have to deal with Hollywood producers, distributors, and more. I
know the secrets of this business. The things that are done, the things I
expose in this movie will seem like far fetch conspiracies to the
uninitiated. To what exent can you personally
identify with the socio-political messages your female lead tries to
transmit to the world?
I agree with everything she says. In effect, that character is an
avatar for myself. The movie is dramatized to be more action intense, but
the conversations from the lead actresses' side are absolutely my point of
view. You of course also have to talk
about the action scenes in The
Insurrection for a bit, and how were they achieved? Well, Michael
Paré
is just a kick ass kinda guy. It was my job to try to keep up with him. I
also have a local militia that I collaborate with. They played the private
contractors. They are all gun experts, which lets me focus on the
choreography of the shootouts. I even had martial arts master John Ozuna
choreograph and perform the hand to hand fight against Paré, so the action
was brutal in this one.
What
can you tell us about your overall directorial approach to your story at
hand? I usually make retro-style
movies but in this case, the subject matter was too serious to make one of
those. I just made this as realistic as possible. I had more good actors
than usual on this one so directing was an absolute joy. The male lead is played by veteran action star
Michael Paré - so what was it like working with him, and how did you get
him even? Well this is actually my
second time directing Michael Paré. He played the villain on one of my
previous westerns. But yeah, we felt very fortunate to have him play the
lead. When I met him on the western I said to him, you still look like a
leading man. So I went to work on writing a leading role for him. This was
it.
Do talk about Wilma Elles, and why exactly her? Wilma is an amazing actress. She’s a
joy to be around. I’ve worked with her before on Playing with Dolls:
Havoc, and we’ve stayed friends ever since. She is an international star
of movies and TV shows. We were lucky to have her in this movie. She
delivered every line with distinction. A great match for Michael Paré. A few words about the shoot as
such, and the on-set atmosphere? Oh we
joke on every movie. We laugh and enjoy the filmmaking experience. I know
the tone of this movie seems very somber but we laughed in between every
take. I’m the only crew so the actors help out with everything. The
actresses cooked and cleaned and the menfolk helped me set up the lights
and move equipment. We’re all just a happy troop of filmmakers. The $64-question of
course, where can The
Insurrection be seen? Good
question. Sadly, because of the attack on Hollywood subject matter,
The
Insurrection is being denied the normal wide release distribution that my
movies usually get. I’ve had to put it up exclusively on Vimeo:
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/theinsurrection
- we hope Vimeo doesn’t take us
down as well. Anything you can tell us
about audience and critical reception of The
Insurrection?
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So far it’s been great. One of my
best reviewed movies to date.
Any future projects you'd like to
share?
I’m about to do another Michael Paré movie. Happily. Your/your movie's website, Facebook, whatever
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Thanks for the interview! Thank
you for the kind words in your review.
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