'Bliss' trivia and fun facts
Director
This is the third Joe Begos full-lenght film in six years.
Aesthetic
The film is shot on 16mm. "I knew we had to shoot on 16MM, and I knew I wanted to shoot like this really 70?s style, early Scorsese style", director Begos said in an interview with NOFS Poscast.
Sitges
'Bliss' was nominated to Best Film in the Midnight X-Treme category in the Sitges Film Festival.
Dora Madison
The actress Dora Madison also appears in another horror movie by Joe Begos made in 2019, 'VFW', in which a group of war veterans must defend their local VFW against a drug dealer and his relentless army of punk mutants.
A familIar face
Dora Madison, also credited sometimes as Madison Burge, has played roles in popular shows such as 'Dexter' and 'Chicago Fire'.
Hollywood
The director Joe Begos has talked about the idea in this film's plot: "I always wanted to make a movie about an artist in Los Angeles and not about someone in the beautiful Hollywood hills making millions of dollars as an artist. I wanted something that would showcase the dirty and shabby side of Los Angeles, that exist, but it seems that no one wants to show it on the big screen". He was inspired by his own situation of despair for not being able to do his art.
Shooting
The shooting was approximately a month long.