Director Candida Royalle has completed production on another of her erotic videos told from a female perspective. A comedy set in her hometown of New York City, Under the Covers features a cast made up of performers from New York and L.A.
Royalle partnered up with Jamye Waxman on the production. Waxman, formerly a radio and TV producer for the “Joan Rivers Show,” is a columnist for Playgirl, Steppin’ Out and The Philly Edge. She is completing her masters degree in sex education at Widener University. She also serves as president of Feminists for Free Expression.
Royalle's collaboration with Waxman is the first of what she says she has long intended to do with her production company: “groom young female directors to create female driven adult erotica for Femme Productions.” Waxman is working on the script for her directorial debut.
Under the Covers is a co-production between Royalle's Femme Productions and Adam & Eve Productions and is scheduled for a September release.
At the same time, Royalle is executive producing Dare, an urban, hip-hop erotic adult video for the market of ethnic women and couples. It will be written and directed by filmmaker Abiola Abrams, a former host of HBO's "Chat Zone" and syndicated NBC hip-hop news show, "The Source:All Access." A music compilation CD of music by the stars of Dare will be distributed with the movie. Release is set for early 2007.
Royalle is the author of "How to Tell a Naked Man What to Do," published by Simon & Schuster/Fireside (hardcover released in October 2004). It was re-issued in paperback in February.
More on Royalle can be found at www.candidaroyalle.com.
