Emerging Queer Pornographers Get a Boost
SAN FRANCISCO – Point of Contact, a new series of films exploring sexuality in the real world, has debuted on Pink & White Productions’ online video-on-demand hub.
Armed with cameras and micro-budgets, first-time filmmakers took to the streets and sheets with one goal: to explore the seldom-explored and grow as documentary pornographers. Lensed over a period of four years, the project’s debut offers works by four emerging directors: James Darling, Minax, Tina Horn, Cyd Loverboy and Shanna Katz. A dozen more directors are slated to follow, according to Pink & White founder Shine Louise Houston.
Houston said she outlined a suggested structure for the project and then turned the filmmakers loose. Most adhered to the plan: a film split into four parts encompassing an introduction about themselves, a solo scene, something they currently like a lot and something groundbreaking, iconoclastic or otherwise “new.”
Already Point of Contact has spawned the response Houston anticipated when she launched the project, fostering a new wave of queer-porn directors who, in turn, have launched companies of their own. Based on their experiences with the project, Horn co-created, produced and directed QueerPorn.tv, and Darling created FTMFucker. Cyd St. Vincent’s related project, Bonus Hole Boys, is expected to bow soon.
Films in the Point of Contact series are available on PinkLabel.tv. The VOD site is part of Pink & White’s affiliate program, which pays a 30-percent revenue share.