RAW! UNCUT! VIDEO! chronicles the rise and fall of homegrown gay porn studio Palm Drive Video, and explores how a devoted couple helped battle a devastating health crisis by promoting kinky sex.
Legendary leatherman Jack Fritscher met Mark Hemry in 1979 at Harvey Milk’s birthday party and the two fell head over heels in love. When the AIDS epidemic swept through San Francisco, the couple left the city to begin a new venture: turning a rural ranch in Sonoma County into a safe-sex porn studio that offered viewers new sexual possibilities in an age of plague. Casting rugged non-professional models to explore their unique erotic fantasies onscreen, the studio explored a wild array of queer kinks and helped champion sex-positivity in the porn industry.
Directed and Produced by Ryan A. White and Alex Clausen
Produced by Todd Verow, Charles Lum and Paul Lee
Original Music by Jess Wamre
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Homophobic Instagram Censors | A&U Magazine (pdf) | Queer News Tonight (pdf) |
Fucking Young! (pdf) | Slam Wrestling (pdf) | The Advocate (pdf) |
XTra Magazine (pdf) | POV (Point of View) Magazine (pdf) | The Utah Review (pdf) |
Contra Zoom Pod (pdf) | The Georgia Voice (pdf) | Edge Media Network (pdf) |
Oslo Fusion (pdf) | Queer Lisbon (pdf) | Gay Community News IE (pdf) |
CinemaMarket Oslo | GCN GayCityNews (pdf) | Irish Film Institute (pdf) |
MetroWeekly (pdf) | Bill's Media Commentary (pdf) | DamnTheseHeels.org (pdf) |
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Outfest Los Angeles (YouTube) | ||
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Porn Film Festival Berlin | ||