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November 10, 2005
Porn B.C.: Checking in with the East Van Porn Collective
Georgia Straight's Pieta Woolley visits with a happy camp of Vancouver no-no-budget filmmakers. "The East Van Porn Collective never expected its first and only movie to screen beyond East Vancouver. After all, the budget was just a few hundred bucks. Plus, it’s the work of 7 non-filmmakers, with the help of one member with a couple of documentary-film classes under her zipper." Woolley reveals more of her lasciv proclivs, as she narrates, "In spite of all that, the film is an independent filmmaker’s wet dream. Thanks to a self-funded tour, "Made in Secret: The Story of the East Van Porn Collective" is now... certainly an international rumbling. Over Earl Grey tea at the Our Town Café on East Broadway, the Georgia Straight met with alt-porn stars nerdgirl, JD Superstar, Monster, Mr. Pants, and Professor University. They’re just back (with the exception of nerdgirl) from a six-week tour throughout eastern and central North America. “We slept on couches and floors; it was like an old-school rock band,” Professor University told the Straight, explaining it was Greyhound, rather than jets and limos, that carried them from screen to screen. “Everywhere we went, people wanted to pick our brains about how to make movies.” ... Part of the film’s charm is that the collective members look like typical East Vanners, quiet revolutionaries who might serve you a latte, drywall your basement, or teach your kids second grade. Another part of the charm: the film is so utterly East Van. Even the name of the porn film within the film—Bikesexual—has a whiff of Commercial Drive about it. How was such a Vancouver-oriented film received in New York and Cape Breton? “There’s an East Van in every town,” Mr. Pants said." [More exposure at the link.]
Posted by pride at November 10, 2005 12:10 PM
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