Interview with Juli Simon, director of FICEB. Part Two
Second part of the interview he gave us Juli Simon, director of the International Erotic Film Festival of Barcelona. On this occasion Juli talks about his heroes in the porn industry, the differences he found between the Yankee and Spanish porno, developments and future FICEB location of the controversial "politics" that has attracted the festival Catalá Sexe, the competition generated by internet sex industry of the late Spanish and production companies to react against the network of networks, what is expected of Prop0rn, operation, marketing excessive film Pirates 2, the disappointments he has lived, and the solutions suggested to solve the current crisis. 
7 - Who is your hero or the person who deserves more respect you in porn?
'I do not know. That is, who he is and I have been with him. But he is a hero and I admire in the distance. But for me, the person writing the modern porn, so my hero is Larry Flint. Without it we would not be today or festivals, or movies, or anything. It is the one that breaks the spear in the U.S. and get what no one thought we would get, and from there the entire industry was born. Therefore it is a hero "strategic" rather than a personal hero is also what Clinton did and things he has done has been brutal. A very involved especially in the U.S..
8-To Juli Simon, what is the biggest porn movie of all time?
'I speak of the ones I've seen during my years as director of the Festival. To avoid falling into the clichés of big names and such. From all that we prize, which I liked most certainly was "Stavros" Mario Saglieri. On 1 and 2.
9 - Who is your favorite actor and porn star / oh why?
-If we talk about sex for me favorite porn actor because I have an almost emotional soft spot Ron Jeremy. A person who has no need porn because it was well established in their series "B". It is dedicated to porn and triumphs. I think it's the first person to get to "normalize" the porn industry worldwide. That is what makes this crazy that we see in the series every day and suddenly gets into porn without leaving the series and is combined ... Apart is an excellent actor. When Ron Jeremy is serving notice that comes from the Los Angeles school, and he is an actor who plays so wonderful. Sexually, it is certainly not the best because it is not a balancing of these, but it's Ron Jeremy. As an actress I admire Delilah. I admire because they have bitched so much, has the face, threatened with death. It is a Moroccan who was devoted to porn. It has been three years at the Festival. It's a great person who is hidden somewhere. Here if you are a writer and threaten you, salts in all the newspapers. If you are a porn actress and you threaten them, nobody knows. She has been working from time to time. Now this withdrawal because it is larger. But what made this woman on principle and because it was what I wanted without giving up absolutely nothing to me is surely the most admired woman, my heroine in the world of porn.
10 - What are the differences between national porn industry and the U.S. porn industry?
'Luckily enough. But not enough. Apart from size, there is a clear market analysis. It is not the same to three hundred million porn direct and indirect one billion and the U.S., to do porn for a country like Spain where the industry has a hard time opening for example the Castilian speaker. It is difficult for the Spanish industry exploited this fact to see the language of Latin America. I think the difference in Spain is total. A Spanish film by system refuses to follow the established by law, do not know whether written or unwritten, for the U.S. industry, which is a very white porn and when you pass the borders, such as Max Hardcore the same sector is putea. Here in Spain there is a much greater creative freedom. Here you can see blood, vomit can see, you see violence, you can see everything in the porn and can not be all Hamilton type filters, screening and such. There are exceptional pieces in Andrew Blake plan, or Paul Thomas who make films that I love, but in general is a very uniform porn boring. Where I live creativity is the basis for better express our own vices, dreams, and other objects of desire. So I think that, fortunately, there are still differences.
11-A lot of it seems strange to see the International Festival of Erotic Cinema in Barcelona in Madrid. Do we enjoy again the Erotic Festival in Barcelona in 2009?
If I had my, yes. Although it seems that this is a business that comes to the greater glory of the company I lead, we depend on one sector. The only answer I have to give me, who for me is yes, but also have to give the industry itself. Then, from last year burnt finished among the sector is fatal, and between that movies are being filmed, because the truth is that I have to sit. I am too lazy sense because if I feel them now what will not. I'm waiting to see if there is a little "breeze" to push a bit up the sector. If I had my, yes. And I will make every effort, but I can not make a solo Festival. If I see that the industry responds, then the answer is yes. But it will be the sector, as was the sector that I agreed to go to Madrid, and was the sector that I accepted the change of model, I can have ideas and I can have proposals, but I always feel the sector and say "Gentlemen, these are my ideas, and my proposals," the debate and start to accept them or not and if I say yes, kick forward. This is like any other event. You can organize a free concert by The Police The Police. Well here you can not organize a film festival without producing erotic movies and no.
12 - What's new is going to show next FICEB?
-The news will be a function of the decision of the site. The news may be for prizes that we will always try to evolve according to the features. Each year we put two or three new prizes, and took two or three. Let's change the jury because some members are already too long. There are ten thousand ideas but if you are advanced to a location just thinking maybe I say no, or maybe I'll say it another way. I think there are basically two ways. One is to return to "model Farga" looking for a fairground where the limitations of the site will determine a lot. Or search for a location type Fabrik (which obviously no longer Fabrik, which certainly will not go back there). Everything is based on the type of site.
13 - Almost the same day, almost the same location, almost the same characters from past editions, but in Catalan language. Does the festival "Catalá Sexe" is the "accepted" version of FICEB by certain political groups have been openly opposed to the renewal of the Forge FICEB?.
-Yes and no. Not a "no" outright. The "Sexe Catalá" arises when there is no problem with any political party. We're now in its third edition and problems in the Forge are for a year and a half. There is a project that comes "after". This project sets out to cover a specific topic that was on our good relations with the Generalitat of Catalonia asked us to develop this project. It is a "yes" because it is politically correct, and is a "no" because there is no cause-effect relationship to what happened in Fargo and FICEB. What happened?, Because as we Ficeb moved to Madrid, if we wanted to convert it and make a product much closer to FICEB of what they love even those who once asked us for this very product. So now what will be "Catalá Sexe" looks a lot more to FICEB when we were commissioned by the Generalitat of Catalonia. Among other things, the Government is not going to expose as to so far. So "yes, but no." The origin, if it comes from a political settlement. It has nothing to do with the subject FICEB. The evolution separates us from the political parties with the new profile you are taking. And if we have sought are dates and locations, to say that we echáis but now we leave this granite in the ass.
14-SMS, video chat sex, amateur porn ... internet is killing the porn?, Or is the porn industry that has not adapted to the new age technology? .
-What I believe is that the Internet is also declining. If only it were that is the internet and everything else goes down. Internet also low. No webmaster that earning the same day two years ago, there is not one. And no new inventions, because when you finished the dialer, SMS came out, but now nobody is swearing like when certain laws existed dialer, but simply because consumption down low. Because there are free pages, because there's piracy, or simply because the consumer has decided not to eat. That said I think there is much further on the internet that the traditional sales. As in other traditional businesses (travel, airline tickets). Converge in porn all to the plasma TV, when we get internet even further, because I believe that porn is out there. The traditional producers are very late on this. To me this does not bother me, because porn is not the traditional producers. Porn is the product itself. If the product now others do, as are the others. It's not like before the producers, there were other producers, and others ... is the production of a particular sector. In this sense I do not think it's just that those who were tardy used to be in the picture in the nineties. Now the picture will be another two thousand.
15-In the event ProPorn is intended that the online porn industry and porn industry relate more. Do you think the internet porn industry and must unite their destinies?
-They are already united. Internet is within the porn industry. The origins of amateur porn is porn. Antonio Marcos, Salvador Diago, everyone you see today began in plan amateur movies. So there has always been amateur porn in traditional industry, both on video and DVD and now internet. What are new technologies for the exploitation of porn, SMS, video chat, do not think this ending. These are new forms of exploitation. I see this as a negative development but as a normal technological evolution. It's like a few years ago we used the fax as a means of communication, and now we use the email. The effect is the same. Before the letter received by fax, and now the receipt for the computer screen. The intent of ProPorn is to unite all stakeholders. Do not connect to one and all, because there are many that have multiple arms. There are webmasters who make content, some producers are SMS platforms. It's just a networking. What we tried is that all the players involved in the sex industry in Spain, including sex shops, to come together and talk. It has no other purpose. If it looks like the On and Off. Nomenclatures are used even ourselves but mentally not see it. Let us unite all stakeholders in the sex industry in Spain. Let's annual meeting FICEB has not been able to consolidate as a meeting point. That if it is, but it is much more playful. Although 80% of those who come to ProPorn come to have fun more than anything else. In that sense, I'm very happy because the actors interact. Not only the producers speak. The actors present their website. The photographers. Journalists can do their work. In this sense to me ProPorn is one of those jewels in the crown to start without knowing exactly how it would go, and that in two years has established a brutal way. Getting nearly 300 people come to ProPorn is spectacular. The networkings that are organized in the Netherlands are 140. In this sense, I am very happy with ProPorn.
16-In 2008 in the U.S. has released Pirates II with ten million dollar budget. In contrast, in Spain, there is little shooting or ongoing projects. What has happened to have come to this?
-Let's face it. I think I have spent ten million dollars on this production. I think this is part of a marketing strategy. They have spent a lot of money, more than normal. Think of that ten million dollars in Spain are rolled three conventional films. Ten million is brutal. Too much. And so I do not believe it. Marketing campaign is a very well made, very intelligent, which makes all of us talking about this movie. If you have spent three million, and it seems a bit silly. I do not know if in this case would be the most expensive, but in any case would equal the second most expensive. They have set the bar 4000000-10. And in a rare situation. The problem we have here, is moving to the U.S. and worldwide. Then there is that Spain is becoming an island where porn Barataria works differently to the rest of the world. The porn situation with more or less down, is uniform in almost all markets. Talk to the Germans, the French, Americans, with the Portuguese, with Latin Americans speak with anyone who is crying. You see someone who is in the virtual corner mounting a kleenex factory, because it is awesome. Pirates II But I think it is marketing, if you think you have spent more money, and do not understand why. If it's pure marketing as when one makes a great movie to jumpstart or corporate image positioning, and that some guys who know more than I have decided what to do, and thus they will sweep and will exceed your competition is so pure marketing. Or really is that they see light at the end of the tunnel that I see. Why not be filmed in Spain?: I think that in Spain there are shooting for what happened in 2006-2007. You know that Eve's apple?. Well, the good will and confidence of good people, dedicated to creators and directors to budget multiplied by three, and made the move and started X, and began to make big productions. And these people, no more, which are four, five or six directors, who really are monopolizing the last six, seven or eight years the porn market in Spain. Suddenly, I removed the block but already have the drug in the body, and tell them not back to the 2005 budget, but the immediate reality of the current which is 50% of 2005 and the salary charges charged then. If you've paid movie "X" are now going to collect "X divided by 5". This has made the directors refused, the producers refused to do the projects that were on the table. And in the end it served as an excuse to clear accounts. Pull catalog Goodwill pull, pull, and so what we see, if not filmed because we bring projects that we will not support. In a time of descent of all we have the perfect excuse for not working. I believe this is the situation. And little by little they begin to do things, but within the realm of low budget. Micro scenes to hang somewhere or if gonzo being made. Of course, we as Film Festival, it's not. This we saw in 2007 over 2008. There were very few productions and directors starving.
17 - What person or company has been disappointed you most in the industry and why?
-Ugh. Contrary is that the version does not exist. No company has me excited about something to write home about, nor any that I have disappointed because they expected their reactions. My relationship with the private sector is no enthusiasm or disappointment but realistically cruel. Industries ¿I disappointed?, Man, maybe the one I was disappointed by the illusions that we put all has been THAGSON. Not because they have done wrong, but because he was the one that put the seed of the move X in which all had high hopes and I as director of the festival even more. That put the parking brake and move X outbreak has caused this. Many directors who worked for others went with them and there was a creative movement toward THAGSON it was very interesting and if it had been consolidated would have been great. Pop this collective illusion it has been hard. But there has been disappointment. It was realism. Could not be maintained at the current juncture product quality. It's more disappointment disappointment. Because the dream was very, very, much.
18 - What Juli Simon proposes solutions to an industry in profound changes that are currently too many fights and perhaps too much ego in his players?
-The answer lies in the question. I think what the industry the first thing to do is be very realistic. The only way out is the collective realism. Wondering why are we here? And to answer this. The porn industry in Spain, is entrepreneurial edge. Neither the webmasters nor the producers or distributors, or those who do one thing and doing another. The solution I see is that of sitting through the partnerships that already exist, see what the problem, and from there I think the Lone Ranger business is over. The events that I do try not to make only making agreements with Portuguese, Germans, those who need it. And I think we must begin to have close links to launch specific things. No business links in plan mergers, but to begin to join forces to create a culture of consumption and generate new customers. The problem is that we have sold meat for many years without worrying about creating a addicted to this meat. The meat eaters ate everything, because he was giving him everything. The fact is that we have failed to retain consumers with a particular product, which for example the Germans if they have done. In Germany certainly is where the least effect this crisis because people pay the product you are because they are accustomed as I am used to buy Danone for Danone buy, and another purchase any product. For here we do not buy "Spanish product" or "product made here," but we buy "sex." So I think what you should do is 1: this analysis of realities, 2: start to come together to develop products. Individually is impossible. This bond is what can make interesting things out for the consumer. Regarding actors should see their career as more than just actors. Examples ten thousand: Torbe, Nacho Vidal, Rocco, Dunia Montenegro, who were able to see his career in a different way. My career is not just being in front of a camera when I called. I have to develop a career because my customer is what it is, and I have to give me what you want because I am the product. All I see is in terms of companies to develop joint products, after analysis of concrete realities, and the actors must understand his career as something more than interpretation.
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