Some of the greatest directing talents ever to walk the face of the earth have trod the ground of Chatsworth: John Ford, William Wyler, George Stevens, Raoul Walsh, Buster Keaton, Roger Corman. Among many others, they all helmed productions within the city limits of pre-Porn Valley at the Iverson Movie Ranch, a much-used location since the filming of Vitagraph's My Official Wife in 1914. In the late '60s, noted kink auteur Charles Manson got behind the camera for some Family footage of his sexy flock in nearby Spahn Ranch. And speaking of ranches, what once was Bonanza's lush, expansive Ponderosa is just down the road from AVN headquarters.
Of course, Hoss never took a milky splooge load to the chin, and the legendary, volatile Ford never screamed into the canyons of Chatsworth as he staged interracial anal scenes. The days of the mainstream Hollywood presence here may have passed, but footage of a different nature continues to roll. And, though the current local directing talents may never be referenced on Inside the Actor's Studio, the artists calling the pop shots are no less creative in their own realm than the long dead cinematic souls of yesteryear.
What follows is a collection of thoughts on making porn — from features to gonzo — compiled from individual interviews with a random sampling of directorial talent. You will also find a comprehensive listing of all currently active directors, divided into five categories: Auteurs, Feature Directors, Gonzo and Other Non-Feature Directors, Performer-Directors and Foreign Directors. For space reasons, we've limited ourselves to brief descriptions of their work and a key title or two.
AUTEURS
These are directors whose work has not only a personal stamp, but an artistic ambition that takes it to another level. They each have a distinctive look, instantly identifiable, and a set of themes they keep returning to. Individualists and strivers, they include suave veterans and edgy newcomers. It's not a matter of imitating Hollywood. Only Avalon is currently making plot-driven features, though Leslie, Ninn and Stagliano have excelled at those in the past. And it's not a question of genres or niches. The plotless, wordless eroticism of Blake, Joone and Zion create a niche of their own. Sky's synthesis of porn, music and fashion makes him unique. Like him, each of these directors seeks to raise the bar for porn, to enlarge the possibilities of the adult medium.
James Avalon —Elegant visuals, finely tuned editing and Hollywood-worthy stories, often with a sci-fi/fantasy bent, are the trademarks of this Hall of Famer whose consensus masterpiece is Les Vampyres (Metro, 2000). This year, no release is as eagerly awaited than James Avalon's Darkside, the first feature from Red Light District Films. ... Andrew Blake — XXX has been hard, XXX has been artistic, but master filmmaker Andrew Blake made XXX beautiful — and has won more film and cinematography awards than any other director. Janine Lindemulder's "ice dildo" scene in his Hidden Obsessions (1992) is well remembered, and his more recent work, for his Studio A Entertainment, with Dahlia Grey and Aria Giovanni, continues to top rental and sales charts. Even his first film Night Trips (Caballero) — selected by AVN in 2001 as the greatest Adult title of all time — remains popular. ... David Aaron Clark — A long-time critic for Screw magazine, Clark got the directing bug in '98, creating his Asianatrix line for Extreme, and later the award-winning Asia Noir and Zen and the Art of Fellatio series for Video Team. His love for Pacific Rim ladies inspires him to work that is both subtle and almost psychedelically erotic. ... Red Ezra — The physically imposing Texan is one of Adult's premiere big budget vignette directors, helming more than 25 titles since 1994, including such acclaimed fare as Wicked's Fast Cars & Tiki Bars and New Sensations' Hearts and Minds, which won an AVN Best Art Direction Award in 2003. ... Joe Gallant — Almost single-handedly revitalized the pro-am genre with his highly individualistic, New York-based sleaze for his Black Mirror Productions (The Luv Generation, AVN's reigning Best Pro-Am Release), the rocker/porner recently hooked up with VCA Pictures. ... Joone —As co-owner of Digital Playground, he has created his personal brand of high-end adult entertainment, with dazzling visuals and dialogue-free eroticism, best viewed in his Island Fever trilogy. Fans are anticipating his first large-scale feature, Pirates, a co-production with Adam & Eve, to be released in September. ... John Leslie — The AVN Hall of Fame performer-turned-director all but ruled the mid-to-late '90s with such visually dazzling classics as Dog Walker, Drop Sex and Fresh Meat: A Ghost Story (all for Evil Angel), and while he may no longer be quite as cutting edge, he still regularly produces superior lines like his long-standing The Voyeur and new series such as Gobble the Goop. ... Eon McKai—A stylistic breath of fresh air aiming at the porn/punk/goth/alt crowd, Eon McKai debuted with Art School Sluts last year and followed up with the much-anticipated Kill Girl Kill this year, both for VCA Pictures. ... Michael Ninn — One of the all-time great directorial giants, who for more than 20 years has been instrumental in upping the stakes as to what Adult can look like with such high-style classics as Latex and Shock for VCA — back-to-back AVN Best Video Award winners in 1996 and 1997. More recently, he founded his own company, Ninn Worx (distributed by Pure Play Media) and the move seems to have inspired him to even greater visual heights with such stunning titles as In the Garden of Shadows (the XRCO's reigning Best Video) and the less flashy but return to hardcore basics line Neo Pornographia. It's easy to see why the AVN Hall of Famer is one of the most honored of all Adult directors. ... Laurent Sky — French-born fashion photographer who has quickly become one of Adult's supreme stylists with such titles as his 2003 debut, Fetish: The Dream Scape for Ninn Worx (AVN's Best All-Sex Title of that year), and Raw Desire, the first production from his own company, Sky World, an Editor's Choice in this issue. ... John Stagliano — One of the very most acclaimed, influential directors of all time — arguably the most acclaimed, influential director of all time — Stagliano is an Adult icon who was instrumental in launching the Gonzo revolution with his "Buttman" persona (The Adventures of Buttman, Evil Angel Video, 1989). He is the founder of the Evil Empire pantheon of A-list hard-edge directors (John Leslie, Jules Jordan, etc.) and later helmed the landmark fetish-meets-hardcore production The Fashionistas, which dominated the 2003 AVN Awards, taking home 10 statuettes, including Best Film and Best Director. ... Marty Zion — Zion splashed onto the XXX scene last year with Metropolis (Nectar), an AVN Editor's Choice, but his videographic artistry, incorporating masterful editing and enticing soundtracks, has remained unabated through half a dozen more hits, including Liquid, Space 2077, Illumination and his Mystified series. ... Jack the Zipper — Young Turk made an auspicious debut in 2004 with the daringly distinctive Stuntgirl (Clockwork Productions/Hustler Video), which took home several AVN Awards, including Best All-Sex Release. His eagerly anticipated White Witch is due to cast its spell before Halloween.
FEATURE DIRECTORS
The adult feature has shown considerable staying power in the years since Deep Throat. Until the Gonzo Revolution, story porn was almost always the way to go, and it's still how a large market segment prefers to see it. The well-scripted features of Paul Thomas, the genre's most amply awarded director, have come to serve as the matrix for most story movies. But there are many sub-genres. Action porn, thrives in the hands of Nic Andrews and Michael Raven. Comedy is king under Jonathan Morgan; feminism speaks in the work of Candida Royalle and Estelle Joseph. In short, there's a world of variety in story-driven porn, and these are the directors who have kept the faith in it as an ideal vehicle for sexual expression on screen.
Nic Andrews — Film school-trained director who excels at Hollywood-style action movies with topnotch special effects, like his landmark thriller Dark Angels (New Sensations, 2000), whose sequel, Dark Angels 2: Bloodlines, releases in September. ... Brad Armstrong — The most influential of all Wicked Pictures directors and thereby defining modern couples porn, Brad Armstrong directed adult classics Conquest in 1996, Dream Quest in 2000, Euphoria in 2001 and the film The Collector in 2004. Look for The Collector's sequel, Sold,later this year. ... Axel Braun —The son of porn pioneer Lasse Braun, he wrote and directed one of the best feature films in recent years, the edgy Compulsion for Elegant Angel (2003). Until recently he was shooting stylish, high-end wall-to-wallers for New Sensations but has since signed on (non-exclusive) with Sin City for both gonzos and features. ... Bob Chinn — A prolific early-'80s director best known for his Johnny Wadd series (e.g., Jade Pussycat), Chinn has helmed some of adult's early classics such as Blonde Fire (Caballero), Candy Stripers (Arrow) and Tropic of Desire (VCX) though a comeback try in 2001 was unsuccessful. ... Francois Clousot — One of XXX's most popular directors, this Frenchman's forte is story-driven fare such as Angels (Sin City), but he's also adept at series work, including Sunshine's multi-nominated SexHibition. ... Nic Cramer —While Cramer's work can be hit and miss, when he hits he hits hard; A Clockwork Orgy (Pleasure Productions, 1995) is a classic, as is his Penetrator 2: Grudge Day (Pleasure, 1996) and his film Private Gold 24: Operation Sex Siege (Private USA, 1998) are all examples of what this truly-talented director is capable of. ... D. Cypher— This sassy wordsmith-slash-director was the visionary behind the high-impact Metro feature Prisoner, starring Brittney Skye, earlier this year and proved his writing chops when he took home the AVN Award for Best Screenplay in 2003 for Wicked's Breathless. ...Wesley Emerson — Best known for his work on Video Team's No Man's Land series, Emerson has directed features for nearly every major adult company, and even a respected documentary on the legendary John C. Holmes. ... Toni English — A mainstream documentarian, who became an award-nominated director for Vivid and Adam & Eve, Toni, under her real name Kelly Holland, has taken over the reins of the fledgling Playgirl Video line. ... Jim Enright — One of porn's legendary feature directors, Enright directed the classic 1993 Wicked comedy Haunted Nights. ... Grip and Cram Johnson — Porn's number one BBW worshipers, the Johnson brothers directed the 2003 epic, Chunky on the Fourth of July. ... Estelle Joseph —Founder of Stella Film Productions, she is dedicated to creating story features that appeal specifically to female consumers, like the latest in her ongoing series, City of Flesh III: Cummitment (2005). ... Roy Karch —Veteran writer-director (150-plus titles since 1985) known for his sharp, classy one-day-wonder features, such as The Bedford Wives (Sex Z Pictures, 2004). ... Chi Chi LaRue — This popular gay industry icon, with tons of all-male movies under his garter belt, has proved equally adept at directing women in his work for Vivid, notably such Vivid Girl showcases as Tera Tera Tera (2004), Deep Inside Malezia (2005) and volumes of the Where the Boys Aren't line. ... Bud Lee — Entering the business with his wife, Vivid contract star Hypatia Lee, he quickly established himself as a reliable and prolific storyteller, occasionally rising to the level of artiste with creations such as 1997's Appassionata (Adam & Eve), starring Asia Carrera. ... F. J. Lincoln — A veteran director whose credits number in the hundreds, dating back to the late 1970s, and who's still crafting slick and sexy product like the AVN-nominated (Best All Sex Release) 18 and Easy (VCA, 2004). ... Cash Markman — Creator of the popular Sex Trek series for Moonlight Entertainment, adept scripter Markman got tired of seeing his writing blue-pencilled by directors ... so he became one himself, frequently scoring AVN nominations for his prolific comedies. Some 200 credits to his name since 1993, including the recent Perfect Pairs for Legend. ... Jonathan Morgan —This former actor, a Wicked Pictures contract director, rules the sex comedy genre, taking home three AVN awards in that category: Double Feature! (1999), M Caught in the Act (2000) and the mega-hit Space Nuts (2004). He's got parody down pat, as should be clear with his slasher flick takeoff, Camp Cuddly Pines Power Tool Massacre, to be released by Wicked in September. ... Nick Orleans — Orleans just keeps getting better and better; Exhibit 1: The Perfect Secretary, which features about the finest cast imaginable, and Camera Club (both Adam & Eve, 2005); exhibit 2: Just about everything he's done since entering porn in 1993, like the 1995 Vivid film Nylon, which is packed with legends including Rocco and Veronica Hart. ... Henri Pachard —This AVN Hall of Famer was dubbed "the Lubitsch of lust," thanks to the sexual sophistication of the memorable films he shot in New York beginning in the '70s, culminating in the acclaimed mini-series Taboo American-Style (VCA, 1986). He's three times an AVN Best Director: The Nicole Stanton Story, Parts 1 & 2 (Caballero Home Video, 1989), Talk Dirty to Me, Part V (Dreamland Home Video, 1987) and Long Hard Nights, (Essex Video, 1984). ... Michael Raven —So talented he could go Hollywood if given the chance, Raven has produced a highly impressive body of work, some 115 titles, since 1994, including Watchers (Sin City), AVN's Best Film of 2000, and Beautiful (for Wicked, Raven's home these days), which took home Best Video honors in 2004. A future AVN Hall of Famer if ever there was one. ... Candida Royalle —This high-profile feminist director single-handedly created the "porn for women and couples" niche with Femme Productions in 1984. Her most recent feature is the AVN-nominated (Best Sex Comedy) Stud Hunters (Femme/Adam & Eve, 2003). ... B. Skow — Newbie Vivid director who made debut with the Briana Banks comedy The End Game, reviewed in this issue. ... Kat Slater — A "refugee" from mainstream, Slater convinced Larry Flynt himself to put her in charge of the Young Sluts, Inc. line, to great critical acclaim (and award nomination), but her newer Cum Swappers series is even better. At press time, she was exploring directing opportunities with other companies. ... David Stanley — Not long after a surprising departure from Vivid, Stanley won the Best Director trophy at the 2005 AVN Award for his amazing Pretty Girl. Weeks later Stanley joined an elite group by signing an exclusive directing contract with Wicked Pictures. ... Nicholas Steele — Ultimate Pictures owner, who directs his own big budget features, shot in High Definition video, like the AVN award-winning Rawhide (Best Video, 2003) and the just released The Edge Runner (Lava Releasing). ... Jerome Tanner —"King Jerry" has directed more than 200 titles since 1985 and these days, is Legend's primary feature guy, helming the Nymph Fever and Pimped By an Angel series. ... Paul Thomas — This man's work is nearly synonymous with the excellence that Vivid, and the man is a legend in this industry. His films and videos define the storytelling opportunities that porn offers — witness 1990's The Masseuse and his recent re-make of it with Jenna Jameson (AVN's reigning Best Film), 1996's Bobby Sox (another AVN Best Film winner),1997's Bad Wives (ditto),2000's Artemesia and2004's Heart Of Darkness (ditto again). Simply put,PT is Adult's premiere story-oriented film director. ... Jon Yuma — Entering the industry with then-wife Christi Lake, Yuma is a prolific series director, best known for his Wet Dreams (Nasty Pixx) and Passion Tales (Odyssey) volumes. ... Thomas Zupko — Though his first love is angst-ridden Bergmanesque drama (Extreme's In the Days of Whore with the AVN Awardwinning, for-the-ages Kristi Myst anal gangbang), of late, this darkly distinctive, wildly eccentric talent has been forced by market economics to do more straight-up Gonzo (Elegant Angel's Big Wet Asses line; Vol. 3 is AVN's reigning Best Anal-Themed Feature). But whatever the genre, Zupko's frequently anal-intensive, decidedly non-couples sex is among the hardest, most squalid out there.
GONZO AND OTHER NON-FEATURE DIRECTORS
It's no surprise that these guys and gals make up the longest directors list in this package. Gonzo, non-feature fare is the overwhelmingly dominant porn genre since it's less expensive to produce than plot-oriented features, but just as importantly, is the fare of choice for the solo stroking consumer who merely wants to cut to the chase, get off on the good stuff, then, if they really wanna catch some acting, plot and dialog, pop in the latest Netflix disc. These shooters understand that and for that, we salute them.
Michael Adam —One of the industry's most prolific gonzo shooters, he has cranked out dozens of titles, mostly for Metro's Toxxxic line — Blow Job Fantasies, Handjob Hunnies, More Than a Handful, Eager Beaver —when you see any volume it's likely that Adam directed it. ... Christopher Alexander —He made gangbangs commercially viable with The Gangbang Girl, Anabolic Video's signature series, and while mostly running the company these days, he keeps his hand in as a director (World Sex Tour 29, 2005).... Greg Alves — This industry jack-of-all-trades has helmed some 60 titles since 1994, primarily for Metro and its imprints (including the Air Tight line for Toxxxic), and more recently, for his own company, Zero Tolerance Entertainment, for whom he captures a couple of its most popular lines, Who's Your Daddy? and Blow Me Sandwich (which won AVN's Best Oral-Themed Series Award in January). ... Eric Avalon —Editor turned director whose debut with Nectar Entertainment was Exxxtasy Island (2005), shot in Brazil. ...Wesley B. — A steady shooter for West Coast Productions for the past four years, he has captured several volumes of series such as There's Something About Jack, Chasing the Big Ones and Black Cravings, among several others. ... Zora Banks — This performer/Euro director lenses Hustler's Girl Girl series. ... Vince Benedetti —This Gotham Gold director helms nearly every one of the venerable fetish company's releases, including their Nightmare On 104th Street series. ... Norman & Robbye Bentley — These hot newbie directors recently released Porn Star Station 2 (Matrix Content/Cal Vista), a title that featured a pre-nommed scene with Aria and Lee Stone. The pair is also behind the Slexy series, an all-girl line with great promise. ... Bip — Upwards of 70 BDSM titles to his credit, including 2003's Ropedandshaved.com (London Entertainment Video), an AVN Editor's Choice that was nominated for Best Specialty Release — BDSM. ... Bishop —A cameraman for Seymore Butts, he now has his own "reality porn" line, Blind Date for Smash Pictures. ... Rob Black — Demonstrating that he hasn't really mellowed with age (or government repression), porn's Extreme enfant terrible is back doing his thing, churning out his unique brand of ultra hardcore as obnoxiously in-your-face as ever (well, almost, at any rate). Last year's Creampie Milkshakes, for instance (an AVN Editor's Choice), shows him in fine form, if not quite as fine as his classic period in the late '90s when he was still with Elegant Angel and shaking up the industry with such boundary-busting outrages as say, Miscreants, which pissed off large segments of the business when it nabbed him AVN's Best Director – Video Award in 1998. ... Skye Blue — The chesty former fetish performer has directed some 175 titles since 1994, many of them for specialty giant Bizarre (including the Spiked Heel Diaries and Lusty Busty Dolls lines), but also for hardcore companies like Jill Kelly Productions (the When the Boyz Are Away the Girlz Will Play series). ... John T. Bone —Once dubbed "Porn's P.T. Barnum" for his circus-like World's Biggest Gangbang series (Metro), this Brit-born veteran may have mellowed somewhat but is still pushing a rainforest of erotic envelopes from his new home base in Brazil with all-sex releases like Tabu (Damaged Productions, 2005). ... Frank Bongiorno — Bongiorno proved his power while directing titles like Barely Legal, Hot Showers and Girls Playing for Hustler just a few years ago, only to strike out on his own with Purrrfect Video Productions, turning out sizzling standards like Real XXX Letters and Girls Playing. ... Lizzy Borden — Madam Extreme plays just as tough as hubby Rob Black, if not more so. Her serial rapist flick, Forced Entry, appalled anti-porn forces and was one of the titles that got Extreme indicted for alleged obscenity (later dismissed). ... Cool Breeze G. —He recently helmed Anal Stallion for Onyxxx Films. ... Sandy Bunz —Relentlessly amateur (his fans like him that way), he keeps cranking out low-budget gonzo product for his own Flash Point Entertainment— On the Beach and Public Sex are his signature series. ... Seymore Butts — Probably just as well known these days for his Showtime Family Business crossover reality show as for his classic anal-obsessive Gonzo fare, mean Mr. Butts continues to grind the booty-bustin' goods out after 23 years behind the camera. Though creatively, he's arguably past the high water mark of his stellar late '90s period (American Tushy!, Gluteus to the Maximus and Tushy Heaven, all for Seymore Inc., won back-to-back-to-back AVN Best Anal-Themed Feature Awards), his more recent titles such as Anusthesia and Tushy Anyone? from Seymore Butts Home Movies/Pure Play Media continue to be well-received. ... Tom Byron — After some 2,000 titles in front of the camera, this AVN Hall of Fame stud put that experience to good use behind it, starting in 1996, directing acclaimed hard-edge lines like Cumback Pussy for Elegant Angel (AVN's 1997 Best Gonzo Series), Whack Attack for Extreme (Vol. 2 won AVN's Best Gonzo Release Award in 1998) and beginning in 2003, such series as Asseaters Unanimous and Black Up That White Ass for his own company, Evolution Erotica. ... Danny Case — Prolific Gonzo shooter for Third Degree Films (Ass Breeder, Cum On In, etc.) and before that, sister company Zero Tolerance Entertainment (School of Cock, Internal Cumbustion and others). ... Camera Guy —This credit has been used by several people in the Shane's World and College Invasion series, but the style and lively results are always the same, as in College Guide to Anal Sex (Shane's World Studios, 2005). ... Guy Capo — If Guy Capo had anything to prove, he did just that with his sizzling DVSX series Gothsend, Grudge Fuck and First Date, a group of releases from the past two years that have shown both edginess, intense heat and a variety that says Capo is a director who can not be ignored. ... Celeste — Digital Playground contract director who has turned out a handful of amazing titles in the past two years, including Devon: Decadence (an Editor's Choice in this issue) and the stunning The Story of J. ... David Christopher — The AVN Hall of Fame director has been at it since 1983, helming 250-plus titles, including his seminal Pussyman series (Vol. 5 from 1994 was selected by AVN in 2001 as one of the 101 greatest Adult tapes of all time), and these days is probably best known for his fetish-lite Decadent Divas line for Feline Films/Legend. ... Patrick Collins — One of the industry's all-time great pornographic minds has been churning out award-winning hard-edge smut for his Elegant Angel since 1992. A few highlights among his 125-plus titles include 1993's The Bottom Dweller (AVN's Best All-Sex Video that year), his seminal Sodomania line — winner of AVN's Best Vignette Tape Award in 1995, 1996, 1998 and 1999 — and just to show that the old boy hasn't slowed down a bit, last year's wonderfully perverse Tails From the Toilet, nominated for Best All-Sex Release. ... Eli Cross — Hired gun since 2002 for various companies, including Video Team and Elegant Angel, his 15 or so titles, including Excessive Entertainment's all-girl Epiphany, an Editor's Choice in February's AVN. ... Stoney Curtis — One of gonzo's seasoned veterans who owns both Lethal Hardcore and Celestial Productions and has over 250 credits, he shoots the anal-based videos such as Anal Cumsumption, 12-on-1 and Appetite for Ass Destruction, among numerous others. ... Robby D — If there is one director and one series that is doing its best to bring porno into the 21st century, it's Mr. D and his always-entertaining and extremely sexy Jack's Playground series for Digital Playground, the much-deserved winner of the Best Gonzo Series trophy at the 2005 version of the AVN Awards. Robby has also directed his share of features for Digital, including Beat the Devil and Contract Star. ... Rick Davis — The Baby Doll/Cherry Boxxx shooter has been a busy man since the hard-edge sister companies formed a few years back, helming 166 titles, including 2005's 18 & Hitchhiking, Cytherea is the Best New Starlet and Wet My Teen Pussy. ... Jonni Darkko — If there is one man to be reckoned with in the porn world, it is arguably Darkko; the king of the camera has two Editor's Choices in this issue alone, and since moving to Evil Angel last year his Boob Bangers, Bet Your Ass and Angels of Debauchery series have proven his consistency in everything from pairing hot talent, brilliant camerawork and trademark natural lighting. ... Jewel De'Nyle — AVN's 2000 Female Performer of the Year began directing that same year for Jill Kelly Productions, later worked for Puritan (Babes in Pornland: Interracial Babes — her scene with Lex Steele won AVN's Best Anal Sex Scene Award in 2003) and for the last few years has been exclusive to Platinum X Pictures, which she helped found. Now retired from performing, Jewel has 60-plus titles to her credit, including, most recently, this year's great girl/girler Lick Between The Lines. ...James DiGiorgio — Not only is DiGiorgio the ultimate workingman's pornographer, he is also one who thinks and sees like a true Porn Valley native, churning out quality product at an astounding pace with showpieces like 1997's Psychosexx (Sin City Entertainment) to last year's incredible Playing With Ariana Jollee (Anarchy Interactive). ... Becko Donteli — He recently captured Girls Enjoying Girls and Silk for Phoenix Releasing. ... Andrew Drake — A relative newcomer to XXX who seems to have an affinity for interactive video, Drake's main claim to fame so far is his solo showcase Intimate Affair With Gina Lynn for Pleasure Productions. ... Lex Drill — Helms such hard-edge backdoor lines as Anal Driller and Look What's Up My Ass for Lex Drill Productions/Legend. ... Duck Dumont — One of the industry's premiere fetish directors with more than 200 credits to his name, these days exclusively for his Red Board Video (including the Pain, Torment and Virgin Kink lines). ... Stiv Gators — Directs primarily for Coast to Coast and helmed the cute comedy series Wild Things on the Run. ...Sal Genoa — Anabolic/Diabolic director Genoa solidified his place among the best directors in porn with his Teens With Tits and Women of Color series, but completely outdid himself with Artcore: House of Whores (co-directed with Su), an incredible lesson in lust that featured in astounding cast of characters, including Katsumi, Belladonna, Gia Paloma and oh so many more. ... Don Goo — Has shot titles such as Nick's Bitches and Trisha's Bitches for Maximum Grind. ... Ernest Greene — Although well known for directing high-class bondage/fetish-oriented features such as Strictly for Pleasure (Twist Productions) and the Nina Hartley's Guide series (Adam & Eve), Greene is also an accomplished art director, having worked for such luminaries as Andrew Blake, and is also the editor of Hustler's Taboo magazine. ... Jim Gunn —A girl-girl specialist, he created Pleasure's Strap-On Sally series but now shoots only for his own Florida-based company — movies like Lesbian Teeny Boppers (Jim Gunn Productions, 2000). ... Tommy Gunn — This Metro director — not the performer of the same name — helmed the feature Heidi Spice this year. ...William H. — One of porn's unsung gonzo masters with a quirky sense of humor and a frequently thrilling visual style, H. — he dropped the Nutsack, so to speak, a while ago — has directed 30-plus titles since 1994, almost all of them for Elegant Angel, including the AVN Award-winning (
