Tony Montana
SHERMAN OAKS, CA - Last December, Tony Montana and Leisure Time announced a deal to make an HIV-positive adult film project starring Montana - himself HIV positive. Porn legend Ron Jeremy is signed to direct it. Kimberly Jade will co-star in it. And the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation as its health consultant. And AIM's director, Sharon Mitchell, says the project is a good idea for one reason especially - "it would give awareness that (HIV) is not doomsday; you can still have sex if you're HIV positive, but there are certain ways to go about it."
In fact, Mitchell prefers to think of the project as a kind of instructional film. "That's how I look at it," she says of the project, tentatively titled Positively Yours. "It could be just a porn movie. But for once, could we call it what it is? Everyone who watches porn learns something from it, right? It could be a new technique…even a new kind of fantasy. Right? So let's just call this an instructional tape for safety awareness and for the HIV positive to realize there's ways to have sex safely."
Leisure Time chief Mike Kovacs said in December the film was Montana's idea to do the film. But Kovacs also hopes the softcore version could ultimately become something of an educational film doctors could use with their HIV patients. Montana was diagnosed with HIV last fall.
Mitchell says the film should highlight all the critical steps for an HIV positive person to enjoy a good sex life with minimal risks. "You have informed consent," she says. "Preliminary viral tests, measuring the levels of the virus which are usually in the non-detectable range if using protaes inhibitors that lower the viral load, encoat the cells so nothing can get out or in."
But Mitchell also says she thinks both the film and the reality of HIV helps put "a clarity" on the lives of those diagnosed with the virus.
"I think it does more for people than one would think," she says. "It really gives one an opportunity to look at things in a whole different light.
"And, with this in mind, we have a healthy person with a low viral count which lessens the transmission chance," she continues about the film project. "It's not 100 percent. But with condoms, with vaginal microbicides, and with informed consent, everyone knows what's going on. They're willingly participating in an HIV instructional (film)."
The Montana film has yet to be cast, and Mitchell says it's not yet certain when it will be finished and released.
