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TRIPPING THE LIGHT FANTA
Victims gives producer Francesco Juilland a boost
W ith his business part- ner, Freddy Braidy,
film producer/entre- preneur Francesco Juilland is steaming ahead with a slate of new films under the
banner of their Cameo-FJ Entertainment. Latest off the blocks is the black
comedy Victims, directed by Josef Rusnak (The Thirteenth Floor), blend- ing a, principally, British and American cast led by Jesse Bradford (Swimfan) and Sienna Guillory (Love Actually).
Originated by Tony Imi BSC on 35mm Fujicolor Super F-64D 8522, Super F-500 8572 and Super F-250 8552, Victims is backed by British, Italian and Luxembourg money.
Though, in fact, set in the US and England, the filmmakers used the Grand Duchy – Carousel’s studios – and a seaside villa 60 miles south of Rome to double for the Californian coast.
According to DP Imi: “The idea is that much of the film is meant to be like a drug trip – three quarters of the stuff we see never actually happens. It was a very interesting photographic challenge. I’ve never taken drugs in mylifesoIjustsortofmadeitupasI went along. We didn’t want a ‘trippy’ look or funny colours. It’s the story that’s hallucinatory, not the ‘look’.”
Juilland, who was also an associ- ate producer of The World’s Fastest Indian, has followed up Victims with Bottom’s Up, a romantic comedy, co- starring infamous party girl Paris Hilton, Jason Mewes, David Keith and Nicholle Tom. Next to go will be, in association with Frank Scherma’s radi- cal@media, Blue Valentine.
From one of the most respected families in Europe’s publishing indus- try, Los-Angeles-based Juilland, who also works with his sisters Antonella and Paola, graduated from UCLA and
the University of Geneva, before start- ing out as a journalist and film critic in his native Switzerland.
After moving into film production (Iguana, Homer: Portrait Of The Artist In His Old Days) and distribution, he later worked for a couple of top European commercial production companies and also brokered the acquisition of a share of Italy’s venera- ble Minerva Pictures, with its library of 1500 titles.
Cameo-FJ Entertainment was cre- ated in 2003 and early productions include Retrograde and The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, directed by Asia Argento. ■
Photo above and main: scenes from Victims; top l-r: the Juilland sisters, Paola and Antonella; DP Tony Imi BSC; Producer Francesco Juilland with Nathalie “Pocahontas” Milocchi; on location with Victims
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