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Berne Velasquez
"The movie is about The Seven Adventures of Sinbad, it's pretty much a story where a Somalia gang which is led by a very brutal mean guy Merock, I happen to play that role. To play the bad guy role was not something that I would have chosen to do but me not being able to call the shots in these different roles that come my way, I am just honored to have taken that role. So Merock and this Somalia gang went over to take over Captain Autach's ship in the middle of the Indian Ocean and end up sinking his ship killing his entire crew of men. One survivor Captain Autach who ends up on a stranded island or a deserted island in the middle of nowhere. Sinbad is searching for these crew men and the ship and trying to save these people and has to go through seven adventures to try to rescue them. We did some shooting at Sanctuary Bay, we did something at Baka Bush Tours around mile 31 side towards going to Belmopan. We did some scenes right out here near the ocean actually, right out here in the front of the Princess with helicopter scenes, going up to the ship and all that stuff, we did quite a few scenes right around Belize. As Belizeans a lot of us don't really see the value in things like this, we would let stuff like this pass by. I've been in lines in Hollywood where it's like 10,000 people in line, waiting in line in rain, sleep, trying to land a part on a role or something. So for me to go to the Bliss and get into this open call audition and kill it was just a wonderful thing for me. It was taking candy from a baby."

The movie was produced by Asylum Production and was shot in Belize. About 40 other Belizeans had roles to play in the project. According to Berne you can get your copy of the DVD at any major DVD outlet in the city.