UPLAND, Calif.—A few days ago, we got an invitation from Moose at Girlfriends Films to cover a set for an upcoming production—but imagine our surprise when we arrived at the location to find that the movie was being directed by ... MimeFreak? Isn't he with Elegant Angel?
"Right now, I'm still with Elegant," MimeFreak said. "Much love to Elegant; Elegant is still home, and my boss, Patrick Collins, he said to us, 'All I ask is that you take care of your responsibilities. Elegant is my home, but you know, this is your home as well.' He gave us his blessing, and he told everybody, 'If you have other opportunities, it's not a problem; take them.'"
Turns out, one of MimeFreak's opportunities was to start his own production company—and to have its output distributed by Girlfriends Films.
"Thank you very much, Girlfriends, for giving us the opportunity to be distributed with you," he announced. "I mean, they're killing it on distribution these days. When you think of Girlfriends, you think of 'lesbian' and amateur style, but they've got Bonnie Rotten now, B. Skow, and there's somebody else that just got on board, but they're doing big things."
But as popular as MimeFreak's movies are, and as highly as they've been rated, and as much press as he's gotten recently in AVN, for some reason, MimeFreak's still a bit uncertain about his own talent.
"I feel that me, as an up-and-coming director, I have to work harder than everybody else just to get a little bit of recognition, because we've got a hell of a lot of talented people with a camera in adult these days," he stated. "I consider myself still new. I'm still a new pup. I've got a lot to prove and a lot of things to do. I take my hat off to Jules Jordan, Greg Lansky, Chris Streams, Jay Sin, Mason, Kevin Moore—those guys are doing incredible things. We're not in competition with each other, but we kind of are, and the thing is, who can make up this look? We've got Potter [MimeFreak's Production Manager]; nobody else's got Potter. That dude's special; he's the shit. My boss at Archangel, Gabe, he's given me total creative control, and it's been fun. We just sit and laugh at what we're going to do and how we're going to do it, but we're really taking it back old school, just basic hardcore, nasty, filthy sex.
"We're new, and we're going to be going back to showcasing girls, and we're going to be giving you basic sex and putting a real interesting twist on it," he added. "We're just getting started, but we're going to go back to the Bat Cave, and actually, we're looking for directors to come and join us on this ride, so we have our eye on a couple of people, but we'll see what happens. We've got a whole lot of shit coming. We're just getting started, and with Girlfriends having our back, I don't think we can go wrong, not at all."
The movie we'd been invited to cover will be titled The Booty Movie, a name that MimeFreak was surprised had never been used before—but he was ready to shoot the hell out of it, especially since his leading lady of the day, Kendra Lust, displayed a booty-shake that clearly had no plans to stop anytime soon—and her on-screen partner, Prince Yahshua, was the happier for it. But that's just the beginning of MimeFreak's plan.
"We've got the 'Booty Queen' coming," he declared. That's a contest where, basically, the fans are going to have the power with this company; it's all about them. So what we're going to do is, we'll have this contest to pick the 'Booty Queen,' and when the fans vote, they're going to turn in videos on why this girl is their favorite, and it'll be a whole interactive thing. We're going to select the top 10 big booty girls and have the fans vote on them, and then we'll have the top five, and then another cut, and there's going to be the top three. Once we get to the top three, we're going to take them and showcase them a little bit. Those top three will be featured in the 'Booty Queen' movie, and then the Booty Queen is going to be crowned with a one-year contract with Archangel, exclusive contract. We're going to put a lot of money toward the company and the girl and getting her face out there, so it's going to be a very, very, very exciting year. We're going to announce the winner at the AEE. The contest starts in October, and they can vote at VoteTheBootyQueen.com. We'll announce the winner at the AVN Expo, and we'll start shooting it probably in February.
"I've got a feeling I know who the top three are going to be," he confided. "This girl we have here today, Kendra Lust, is going to be in the top three."
But that's not all—and it really couldn't be, considering the woman to whom MimeFreak is married.
"Also, we have Tori Black; she's going to be giving her full director's debut with us as well, so she's coming with Archangel," he revealed. "I'm just overwhelmed. I love her to death, and she's the reason why we've gone in the direction we have, and we're just getting started. We're going to do a whole lot of things; we're going to be breaking the rules and bending the rules and doing shit that people normally wouldn't do.
"Me and Tori Black are going to be doing couples movies, too; interracial couples movies," he explained. "I don't think there's ever been a movie that's been co-directed by an actual couple, so we want to take care of the couples. She's going to be doing a lot of girl/girl stuff, a lot of things her way, and I can't wait to see what she's going to create. I'm going to sit back and kick my feet up because she's just like this incredible person. Her ideas are like, 'Dude, get that shit out there.' She's crazy when it comes to being creative; she's a phenomenal person."
Not too shabby for a guy who, just a few years ago, had been recruited into the XXX industry by director Chris Streams while working in the duvet department of a Bed, Bath & Beyond.
I guess Chris Streams seen something in me, and Pat Myne—big shout-out to him—Pat Myne seen something in me: 'Your personality, we love it'," MimeFreak recalled. "Of course, I was still rough around the edges when it came to shooting video, so I was a personality; I was booking the girls and what Chris instilled in me was that I had to be a production assistant, production manager, cameraman, videographer—he said, 'You've gotta do everything. Don't just aim to be a director. You gotta do everything to the point where you can't just cut yourself short. Sitting in a director's chair and saying 'cut' and 'action' without lifting a light or taking a picture,' he said, 'those days are coming to an end. There's a lot of people out there who aren't well-rounded, who can't take pictures and video and direct and production-assist this shit and production-manage this shit.' I mean, I've got my own assistant, but I help him; I don't let him do it all by himself. I believe in teamwork. It's just me and him, so when we come and raid this guy's refrigerator, we're only eating four people's worth of food."
Obviously, anyone who's familiar with the choices that Girlfriends' president Moose, and before him, Dan O'Connell, have made regarding whose works to represent and distribute knows that they've yet to make a misstep in that department—and Moose's instincts about MimeFreak certainly seem to be borne out by what we saw on his set that day. And while we don't know when his first movie for Archangel, The Booty Movie, is due to be released, there's a good chance that critics will once again be lauding the work, and Moose's choice, for months to come.
Pictured: Kendra Lust from MimeFreak's The Booty Movie.
