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Thanks guys from me and from Gonzalo for your comments.
Can’t add much to what i already said in other postings. Just that things are moving fast with my 2nd film ‘Brecha’ (trailer on youtube), which has just signed to be released in theatres in Spain ( a zero budget film!!). The other news is the 3-film deal I signed with a large production co. Though my 3rd film (july) will be a light comedy look at the 7-8 year old age group in school, the following one (summer 2010) is what some here might have been waiting for, for a long time. I’ll just have to take some pages of the script when I hand it over :-) It’ll be called ‘Todos Tenemos Secretos’ (‘We All Have Secrets’).

Hi there,
I am also a little out of touch, out of touch with these posts in this site, sorry…

1) Re the length of the film. As far as I am aware, there is NO other version other than the 99min one. I do believe the 134min version was a printing mistake. The directors cut IS 134mins long, but has never been released, to my knowledge.
2) Was the film censored? Censorship takes place from the moment the film is written. One cannot write all of reality in a script because child actors live in our western society. I used to masturbate on trees as a kid. I guess that was both odd and interesting. But can I tell that?
Censorship also happens during a shoot. Editors and other responsible people will choose certain shots according to what they feel is ‘acceptable’.
Then there is the censorship at the distribution level. Yes the film did have more daring scenes in its first cut, but ones that were almost automatically manipulated to avoid ‘problems’.
There was nudity, but, finally, the decision not to include it was taken by myself on the basis that what this nudity MEANT in the script, the use it had in the storyline, would simply get completely lost to other ways of seeing the scene which are specific to out society and time (anything from disgust, shock, outrage, to calling the cops). It was narratively just not worth wrecking the natural rhythm of the film for this. In the 70’s in France this would have fitted in well into the story, not nowadays …But, well, even with the ‘gentle’ version, people in England STILL walked out on it!
3) Piracy: someone above asked me to explain how much money we indie directors/producers/writers make from a film, in order to make people understand the bad of pirating a movie. The fact is, I did sell my house and belongings to make this film, and I have not earned ANYTHING back on it at all yet.
The facts are simple: my film can be downloadable even viewable anywhere for no money at all. I have lost all I had in the belief it was a good idea making this film. Piracy totally destroys such projects.
I am sickened, absolutely appalled by those so-called ‘defensors’ of freedom who claim it is a good idea to ’share’ files online. They are despicable, ignorant people. Sure these big companies need to be woken up to their abuses, but I am a perfect example of one whose Art has been wrecked by pirates from the start, before my career could even start properly.
I am VERY grateful to those who actually purchased the DVD, and for their support, but there are 4 google pages where one can buy or rent my film, and about 40 pages where one can downlaod it without paying a thing.
The sort of honest, independent, risqué movie that some people here would like to see, and me (or another) to make, simply wont happen because of piracy.
My only hope is that even more people will support such films as I make, when my 2nd feature ‘Brecha’ comes out soon (trailer youtube)