What does a former captain of the Colombian cartel do when he gets out of prison? He gets dragged into a spectacular, edge of your seat roller coaster ride of shear survival and international intrigue! “Sangre de Agua Ardiente [Blood of Ardent Water] ” is best described as “Romancing the Stone” meets “Traffic” in the style of Sam Peckinpah‘s “The Wild Bunch“. The story of a man, released after 30 years in a Colombian prison. The classic Hollywood yarn totally unraveled to its individual strands. When a man discovers that his dream of living the rest of his days in relative peace and obscurity was nothing but that. A dream. Instead, he finds that his past can never escape him and now all that is left is his last great adventure. The last good fight of his life.
Blood of Ardent Water plans to capitalize on the growth and earning potential of small, low-cost films, especially in the foreign marketplace and in securing foreign distributionas a gateway back into the U.S. channels. These include video/DVD, cable television, pay-per-view, and evenInternet distribution. Sangre de Agua Ardiente [Blood of Ardent Water's] primary objective is to secure 50% of the financing from one to four private sources of investment.
Our vision with this project is to bridge the gap of traditional and digital media. Shooting with the RED will enable us to produce an incredible film. Blood of Ardent Water explores the illegal drug trade from a number of character perspectives: The protaganist anti-hero Sergio, am undercover DEA agent seeking revenge agaist the killer of his father, an paramilitary commander leading a war against the cartels and a police detective seeking the same villain for the maming of his wife and murder of his young daughter. Blood of Ardent Water weaves a tale that bring their collective stories together throughout the film.
The script and story concept for “Sangre de Agua Ardiente (Blood of Ardent Water)” has garnered highpraise in test readings. Presently, we are considering a co-production with an Austin, Texas based production company which plans to take the film to Colombia.
