Fresh from winning honors at the AVN Awards for 2014 Female Performer of the Year, Bonnie Rotten has turned her hand to direction.

Rotten talked a bit about the first shoot: “We started at 7:30 in the morning ended at 1 am,” said Rotten. “All of the girls were wonderful. We did a pairing of dom sub with more experienced girls and newer, more innocent girls. The beginning of each scene had a bondage set up where we put each girl through a couple intense bondage scenarios then moved them into dominant g/g sex. The scenes are twisted, but shot so beautifully!”

Rotten said the pairings were “pretty perfect,” and that each scene in the movie has a completely different setting and was done differently. Alex Ladd is her director of photography for the project. Girlfriends Films is releasing the movie on April 4. To the Core is the debut movie for Rotten's new production company, Mental Beauty.