San Francisco’s 35th annual Frameline Film Festival is arguably one of the biggest and most influential GLBT film festivals in the world. And while in the past I’ve felt like they tended to shy away from the racier gay films in lieu of more “family-friendly” fare, this year they’ve more than made up for it [...]
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“Smut Capital” to Premiere at Tribeca Film Fest
March 23rd, 2011 
Mike Great news! The “Smut Capital of America” documentary that Jack, Ben Leon and I put together about the birth of the porn industry in the late 60s, is going to premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival next month. We’d love to see you guys there! For screening times and ticket info (as well as extended [...]
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5 Comments »Gay Smut Capital: When Porn Went Hardcore
October 27th, 2010 Mike With less than a week left to raise the funds to finance our ‘Smut Capital’ documentary, I thought I’d release a longer clip. I hate to sound like NPR during funding drive, but once we finish this, we’ll be able to move on to posting even juicier stuff — interviews with Jim Bentley, Kevin Williams, [...]
Smut Capital Redux: Kink’s Bound In Public
October 24th, 2010 Mike In the good old days — that is, the 70s — it wasn’t hard to find a live sex show in San Francisco. It wasn’t quite at the level of Tijuana, but it wasn’t uncommon to see the occasional cattle prod. So I was excited when Scott Tanner, now directing for Kink.com, told me about [...]
Posted in Gay Porn Events Tags: Bound in Public, BoundGods, Kink, Scott Tanner, Smut Capital of America, Tijuana No Comments »‘Smut Capital’: Gay Porn and Gay Liberation
October 4th, 2010 Mike For the past year or so, Jack and I, along with Ben Leon (previously of Raging Stallion) have been working on a documentary about Falcon Studios founder Chuck Holmes. While the full documentary won’t be finished until next year, we did finish a short. The short, “Smut Capital of America,” about San Francisco in the [...]
