A new Eastern European production company, Blue Lights View, is jumping into the gay market with a gonzo/reality line produced and directed by Demian Dvorak. The first release, a six-scene movie starring first-timer Justin, is The Real Guys… Their Stories.
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In a press release, Blue Lights View describes Real Guys as rejecting fake storylines and "allowing fantasy and reality to intertwine when six individuals tell the true stories of their first, or best – or both – sexual experiences." New director Dvorak explains, "I started watching gay films at an early age. They were fascinating to me, but even then I felt something was wrong. I couldn't immerse myself in a fantasy that was so blatantly false – Roman charioteers with U.S. Marine Corps tattoos, and so on. I knew I could do better. Why not have people tell their real stories about real-life events that actually happened to them? That's what I'm trying to do."
Dissatisfied with the typical porn formula, Dvorak created Blue Lights View with a group of friends. "I didn't have any money, just an idea," he told AVN.com. "We pooled every cent we could raise. I didn't want to compromise on anything. We wouldn't use anybody who wasn't really into what they were doing. We knew that would show onscreen. If we didn't like what we saw, we just sent them home and started over. Eventually, I got what I was after: Truth, believability – whatever words you want to use to describe my desire to document on tape as precisely as possible what goes through the minds of men caught up in the sheer ecstasy of sexual passion."
When filming, Dvorak says he doesn't think about "the gay market," but about what he would like to see. "I use a smooth, uninterrupted shooting style and try to involve the viewer with the people on the screen. So, I guess you could categorize that as gonzo. Too often, though, people making so-called gonzo films use this style as an excuse for crude camerawork, shoddy sets and to eliminate all fantasy. Why? Why should an intriguing film-style and the elements of fantasy and quality technicals be mutually exclusive?"
Blue Lights View is currently releasing one feature per month, and plans to double its output soon. Las Vegas-based Paladin Video is set to handle Blue Lights' U.S. distribution.
