Vivid Girl Briana Banks is starring in a co-production for Vivid Entertainment Group and Red Light District directed by Manuel Ferrara.
Ferrara, the two-time, reigning AVN Male Performer of the Year, today is shooting Banks in a scene with Michael Stefano (2004 AVN Male POY), Mick Blue and John Strong in which she will get d.p.’ed. Banks will also do a one-on-one with Ferrara and participate in a group scene with Red Light contract girl Brianna Love and Rita Faltoyano, with Stefano, Strong and Ben English.
“Basically, I just want to do something where Vivid, the feature company, meets Red Light, the gonzo company," Ferrara told AVN.com Tuesday, noting that Banks is “probably the strongest Vivid Girl” in terms of performing. "I want to show that a girl like Briana Banks that is very well known as a contract girl can be as hardcore as the kind of gonzo that Red Light does.
"Plus she has a huge name in the industry. It’s very good. It’s going to be the first time we worked together. We have some common friends and have gone out a couple times bowling. She's actually really good at bowling too.”
Ferrara personally selected the cast which also includes Flower Tucci, Courtney Simpson and Tiffany Rayne.
“It was very important for me to use the Red Light guys (Stefano and Strong) in the movie,” Ferrara said. “I’m just very happy that I could have all the people that I have booked in this movie. I think they’re all incredible performers.”
“I’m looking forward to shoot that group scene with Brianna, Briana and Rita. It will be the first time a Red Light contract girl shoots with a Vivid contract girl. Both are incredibly beautiful.”
Ferrara said that he will also bang Tucci and use it as the first scene in the movie.
“I think Flower is one of the best performers in the industry. She is nasty and she loves to fuck more than anything, which is the main reason why she is in the industry. I think she is an incredible performer,” he said. “I’m going to start strong with that scene, like we’re not messing around, having strong sex right away. This movie is about showing that with Red Light and Vivid there is not so much difference, besides having Vivid do more features.”
Marci Hirsch, vice president of production for Vivid, told AVN.com that the idea started with a discussion between Vivid national sales manager Howard Levine and Red Light District president David Joseph.
“And Howard was saying it would be great if we did some of kind of project together, and then [Vivid co-chairman] Steven [Hirsch] and David talked,” Marci Hirsch said. “The whole idea is to alleviate the myth that our girls don’t do anything. … Our girls don’t shy away from anything we’ve ever asked them to do.”
Levine added, “David Joseph and I were hanging out - I love David - and it was just an idea. And I asked him if we could do a Red Light meets Vivid, and he thought it was a great idea. So we took one of nastiest Vivid Girls and one of his nastiest directors and put them together and it’s like the bride of Frankenstein meets Godzilla. It is going to be some of the nastiest footage.”
Ferrara, a frequent performer for Vivid, said that the award-winning feature company knew he wanted to work with Banks. Marci Hirsch said Vivid would distribute the yet-to-be-titled movie which would be released during the summer at the earliest.
“This is what Briana wants to do. It’s not as if we hold her back,” Marci said. “We shoot our movies the way we shoot our movies, but this is more in line with how she did her scenes before she came to work for us.”
Ferrara said there is a little storyline in the movie that entails Banks meeting Red Light director Jake Malone and telling him how much she wants to do a scene like Red Light does. Malone then hooks her up with Ferrara.
“He’s going to be the one wanting to connect us together. She’s going to show me she is different than what people think of a Vivid contract girl,” Ferrara said. “I really want to show that a Vivid girl can be as nasty as any girl.”
Ferrara indicated this would be his last movie for Red Light before he officially departs for Evil Angel. On Monday, he fucked Simpson and Rayne to kick off the shoot.
“It went very well. It always goes well when you’re fucking two girls,” Ferrara joked.
