Explosively positive Junito, writer/ director/ producer/ editor/ composer/ designer/ star of his Liquid Dreamz Entertainment’s Wet Dreamz of Genie (and nominated in seven more categories) laughs as he says, “I’m a one-man band!”
Then he lets you know that, like any good one-man band, he makes good use of whoever’s on hand. Lina realized his costume designs, Mike Cruz did the re-mix of the Gary Wright 1970s oldie “Dream Weaver,” featured in the score, Jason Barnes made the sets, co-star Dimitri Santiago co-directed, and “somewhere I have a list of like fifteen cameramen that we used!”
About the nominations? “I feel like I’m on a drug that if I could bottle it I’d make a million dollars. The acclaim makes so much difference, because I work in such isolation.”
Isolation? “Well, I was trained in live theatre, and I miss the audience. Most of my dramatic flair comes from my love of grandiose musical theatre productions. My inspiration to do adult movies specifically came from the fact that I love porn, but as an avid foot-fetishist I was always disappointed at the lack of the ethnic foot-fetish genre. So when I did my first movie, Freaky Thugz: The Fire Within (2003), I created a whole new world. Not that I’m upset that anybody stole my idea. I’m thrilled, because now I can watch it myself!”
Favorites? “Michael Lucas. Falcon. Hot House. Latin. Foot-fetish stuff, of course. I get my surfer-boy and skater-boy fantasies every now and then. Arab porn. That’s always hot, because Arabian men are gorgeous.” He’s made only one other movie, Honor Thy Brother (2004). He’d put out more, “but so much of my heart and soul goes into it that after I finish, my body shuts down. I wish I could, financially speaking, crank out more than one a year. I’m an actor. I live to be in front of the camera. Everything else I do is to that purpose.”
For 2006? “Dimitri and I want to work on an improv thing, bringing in eight hot-looking guys who are skilled in acting to ad lib characters and scenarios that we’ve created.”
For 2007? “I’ve entertained the idea of doing a rock musical, if I could find models who could sing well enough. No synching. I’m a purist. I want the real thing. What I’m actually working on — I’m tight-lipped on it, but let’s just say it’s gonna be an interactive experience for the avid porn-fan.”
In the meantime? More hearty laughter from the one-man band: “I wouldn’t mind directing for someone else!”
