Crash Pad Series Volume 6 DVD Screens at Berlin Porn Film Festival!

Episodes from CrashPadSeries.com to screen at Germany’s Premiere Porn Film Festival!

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San Francisco, CA — (October 10th, 2011): Pink & White Production’s 10th DVD release, “Crash Pad Series Volume 6: Wide Open” will screen at the Berlin Porn Film Festival in Germany, October 26-30th, 2011.

Crash Pad Series is based on director Shine Louise Houston’s award-winning film “The Crash Pad”, which won Feminist Porn Awards’ Best Dyke Sex Scene. The website CrashPadSeries.com continues from where the film left off, portraying a clandestine San Francisco apartment where a voyeuristic landlord (played by Houston herself) supplies keys to the pad’s pleasure-seeking occupants so that she can observe their sexual escapades through hidden cameras.

Nominated 2010 AVN Award’s “Best Alternative Website” and recognized at the 2011 Feminist Porn Awards, the site features professional and first-time performers alike in high-quality video episodes and smart behind the scenes interviews. The diverse performers appear in a variety of pairings that transcend normative gender binaries and sexual orientations, causing it to quickly become the top recommended site for audiences seeking high quality feminist porn and authentic queer sexual chemistry. As much of a queer cultural documentary as it is a hot porn destination, episodes from the series are often screened in colleges and universities by sex educators and campus LGBT groups interested in authentic and explicit examples of queer and trans sexuality.

Crash Pad Series’ outstanding episodes are compiled to DVD, with the most recent installment “Crash Pad Series Volume 6: Wide Open”. The movie screens twice in the festival: on Thursday October 27th and again on Sunday October 30th.

Europe is no stranger to Shine Louise Houston’s work; the director was recently awarded at the PorYes Euro Feminist Porn Awards and is a contributor in an upcoming Italian Feminist Porn Anthology. This year, Pink & White Productions star Jiz Lee will be in attendance at the screenings and as a celebrity jury and panelist. More information can be viewed through the festival program.

“Crash Pad Series Volume 6: Wide Open” is directed by Shine Louise Houston and co-directed by Shae. It runs 100 minutes and also includes bonus behind-the-scenes footage, offering interviews with the featured models Princess Donna & Syd Blakovich, Carson & Ray, James Darling & Cyd Loverboy, Tina Horn & Casey Grey, and Jiz Lee & Dylan Ryan.

Retailers in North America and Europe can refer to our wholesale information. For images or interviews with director Shine Louise Houston, please email alliance@crashpadseries.com.

About Pink & White Productions

Founded by Shine Louise Houston in 2005, Pink & White Productions is known for portraying authentic queer desire and fluidity of sexuality and gender in adult cinema. The company’s films have screened world-wide at cultural events and academic institutions, most recently at Stanford University. Houston has been honored at the PorYes Feminist Porn Awards in Berlin and was noted Toronto’s Feminist Porn Awards’ “Visionary”. The director’s work has also received multiple AVN Awards (a mainstream adult ceremony nicknamed the “Oscars of Porn”) and recently Houston was named “Sex Curator” by Curve Magazine, a well-recognized Lesbian publication.

Pink & White’s projects are as intellectual as they are entertaining, as they bring representation to queer sexuality which spans communities of color, gender expression, body politics, BDSM and other marginalized experiences with strikingly beautiful cinematography, humor, and realism. Following the popular best-selling movie “The Crash Pad”, the company’s website CrashPadSeries.com portrays an illustrious San Francisco apartment where queers go to have the best sex of their lives. Houston’s newest site, HeavenlySpire.com explores masculine sexuality in her signature style. For more information about Shine Louise Houston and Pink & White Productions, visit PinkWhite.biz.

The popular queer porn website Crash Pad Series has a new voyeur… YOU!

Ever wanted to sit-in on a porn shoot? Fans, film buffs and feminist porn academics across the globe can now log in and observe as award-winning director Shine Louise Houston films installments of the popular queer porn site CrashPadSeries.com, from Pink & White Productions.

Based on the original “Feminist Porn Best Dyke Sex Scene” smash hit The Crash Pad, the website carries on the film’s hot sex scenes week after week, with diverse genders and fluid sexualities soaking the camera in all manners of toys, kinks, and tricks. With over 12,00o photos and 200 mobile-compatible Video Episodes and exclusive Behind the Scenes interviews with over 120 queer porn models, Crash Pad Series is one of the largest and most diverse queer porn sites on the web. Now, viewers can log on and watch the action unfold in real time through a Level 3 Membership.

Saturday August 13th will stream two shoots. Our first shoot will welcome returning Crash Pad star Vai, who has appeared in Crash Pad Series Volume 2: Unlocked with Dallas, and in a number of other episodes on the site. She will bring her real life partner Joan who will be making a porn debut. The second shoot will feature returning genderqueer star J-Bird (who first appeared on the site with Jiz Lee), and another new face to the Crash Pad, Afrodisiac.

The live-streaming happens Saturday August 13th, 2011 at approximately 11AM and 3PM PST.

Level 3 Memberships are $37/month and includes full access to the site. Members unable to make the live-streaming event can watch the finished edited episodes to be posted in September.

Visit CrashPadSeries.com or for press passes or other information, contact alliance@crashpadseries.com.
Crash Pad Series boasts a competitive Affiliate Program of 30% recurring commission for webmasters.

Attached images: Afrodisiac courtesy of Afrodisiac; J-Bird courtesy Tristan Crane Photography; Vai courtesy CrashPadSeries.com. For more images and information, please contact alliance@crashpadseries.com

About CrashPadSeries.com

CrashPadSeries.com is based on director Shine Louise Houston’s award-winning film “The Crash Pad”, which won Feminist Porn Awards’ Best Dyke Sex Scene. The website continues from where the film left off, portraying a clandestine San Francisco apartment where a voyeuristic landlord (played by Houston herself) supplies keys to the pad’s pleasure-seeking occupants so that she can observe their sexual escapades through hidden cameras.

Nominated 2010 AVN Award’s “Best Alternative Website” and recognized at the 2011 Feminist Porn Awards, the site was created in 2007 and has included professional and first-time performers alike in high-quality video episodes and smart behind the scenes interviews. The site features a diverse cast of amateur and professional porn performers in a variety of pairings that transcend normative gender binaries and sexual orientations. The series has quickly become the top recommended site for audiences seeking high quality feminist porn and authentic queer sexual chemistry. As much of a queer cultural documentary as it is a hot porn destination, episodes from the series are often screened in colleges and universities by sex educators and campus LGBT groups interested in authentic and explicit examples of queer and trans sexuality.

About Pink & White Productions

Founded by Shine Louise Houston in 2005, Pink & White Productions is known for portraying authentic queer desire and fluidity of sexuality and gender in adult cinema. The company’s featured films and projects have screened world-wide, and presented at academic institutions, most recently at Standford University. Houston has been honored at the PorYes Feminist Porn Awards in Berlin and was noted Toronto’s Feminist Porn Awards’ Visionary, as well as Curve Magazine’s Sex Curator. Her work adds representation to queer sexualities, spanning communities of color, gender expression, sexual desire, body politices, BDSM and other marginalized experiences with strikingly beautiful cinematography, humor, and realism. Following the popular best-selling movie “The Crash Pad”, the company’s website CrashPadSeries.com portrays an illustrious San Francisco apartment where queers go to have the best sex of their lives. Houston’s newest site, HeavenlySpire.com explores masculine sexuality in her signature style. For more information about Shine Louise Houston and Pink & White Productions, visit PinkWhite.biz.

An Evening with Shine Louise Houston featuring a Special Clip Show Screening and Director Q&A
Wednesday, September 21st 8pm, $10 @ SF LGBT Center

“There is power in creating images, and for… a woman of color and a queer to take that power… I don’t find it exploitative; I think it’s necessary.”
Shine Louise Houston
Director, Pink & White Productions

Good Vibrations is thrilled to present “Pink and White Delight“, an evening with Shine Louise Houston, founder of Pink and White Productions as a special event in the Independent Erotic Film Festival (IXFF).  Join the filmmaker as she journeys through some of her favorite selections and speaks about creating a sustainable adult entertainment company that exposes the complexities of queer sexual desire.

SF LGBT Center
1800 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94102-6227 * (415) 865-5555

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Pink and White Productions (PinkWhite.biz), award-winning porn production company founded and directed by Shine Louise Houston, produces sexy and exciting images that reflect today’s blurred gender lines and fluid sexualities. From feature films to popular websites, her work portrays authentic sexuality that has been screened globally from film festivals to university/college classrooms and is as hot as it is a culturally significant reflection of queer sex.

Houston’s past projects (The Crash Pad, Superfreak, The Wild Search, CHAMPION: Love Hurts) and popular DVD compilations from CrashPadSeries.com have been recognized year after year by AVN Awards and the Feminist Porn Awards. Houston is an honored director at the European PorYes Awards and is Toronto’s Feminist Porn Awards “Visionary.”

Please help us spread the word and post this listing on event calendars and write about this listing on your blogs. For images or interviews, please email alliance@crashpadseries.com.

In Addition to Shine Louise Houston, also in attendance will be Jiz Lee, Syd Blakovich, and Sophia St. James

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Good Vibrations’ Independent Erotic Film Festival Presents
Pink & White Delight: An Evening with Shine Louise Houston
Clip Show Screening and Q&A with Visionary “Crash Pad” Series Director 

SAN FRANCISCO (August 31, 2011):  Good Vibrations is thrilled to present an evening with Shine Louise Houston, founder of Pink & White Productions, on Wednesday, September 21^st at the SF LGBT Center as part of Good Vibrations’ 6^th annual Indie Erotic Film Festival.  Join the filmmaker as she journeys through some of her favorite selections and speaks about creating a sustainable adult entertainment company that exposes the complexities of queer sexual desire.

Pink & White Productions, award-winning porn production company founded and directed by Shine Louise Houston, produces sexy and exciting images that reflect today’s blurred gender lines and fluid sexualities. From feature films to popular websites, her work portrays authentic sexuality that has been screened globally from film festivals to university/college classrooms and is as hot as it is a culturally significant reflection of queer sex.

Houston explains, “There is power in creating images, and for… a woman of color and a queer to take that power… I don’t find it exploitative; I think it’s necessary.”  Houston’s past projects (The Crash Pad, Superfreak, The Wild Search, CHAMPION: Love Hurts) and popular Crash Pad Series DVD volumes have been recognized year after year by AVN Awards and the Feminist Porn Awards. Last year, Houston was honored 2010 Feminist Porn Awards “Visionary.”

Enjoy steamy scenes from her various erotic film projects along with questions moderated by Good Vibrations’ Staff Sexologist Dr. Carol Queen.  DVDs will be available for sale at the event. Following the screening, head over to the Lexington Club for a champagne toast and continued celebration of Shine Louise Houston and Pink & White Productions!

The Good Vibrations’ Independent Erotic Film Festival
Good Vibrations, the trusted Bay Area retailer that takes pride in providing accurate information on sexuality and toys for grown-ups, presents five nights of diverse sexy screenings at venues throughout San Francisco as part of its sixth annual Indie Erotic Film Festival from September 17^th – 22^nd.   With an all-star lineup of thematic screenings, panels, and features leading up to the shorts competition at the Castro Theatre, IXFF celebrates the spectrum of sexuality in this uniquely San Francisco tradition.

The 2011 line-up includes:

• The Golden Years of Porn with Susie Bright: Saturday, September 17th at the Victoria Theatre, 8pm, $12.
• Sunday 9/18 IXFF presents a Night of Lust: Explicit Erotic Shorts by Erika Lust (Spain) at Roxie Cinema.
• Tuesday 9/20 IXFF exalts gay porn with Gay porn panel, clip show, and screening of “Smut Capital of America” at the SF LGBT Center.
• Wednesday 9/21 celebrates lesbian and queer filmmaking with “Pink & White Delight:” an Evening with Shine Louise Houston featuring a Special Clip Show Screening and Director Q&A at the SF LGBT Center.
• Good Vibrations International Short Film Competition hosted by Dr. Carol Queen and Peaches Christ!  Straight, gay, queer, or kinky, you will find it all in 7 minutes or less at the festival finale on 9/22.  Pre-party at 7pm $10, screening at 8pm, $10, at the Castro Theatre.

For tickets and details, visit: GV-IXFF.org.

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Sponsors for IXFF include: Toyfriend, Fun Factory, LELO, XBIZ, Jimmyjane, Vixen Creations, Doc Johnson, SF Bay Guardian, East Bay Express, Bay Area Reporter, Curve Magazine, Me Bath & Body, Leather etc., Eros, Twin Peaks Tavern, Lexington Club, SF Mix Bar, The Sausage Factory, Sliquid, Sir Richards, Evolution Fresh Juice, Hot Cookie, Del Arco Tequila, Dark Garden, St. George Spirits, Digital Playground, and Good Vibrations’ sister company, the award-winning video producers Good Releasing.
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Pink & White Distribution Deal with Europe’s Sexclusivitaeten

Award-winning Filmmaker Shine Louise Houston to Distribute with European Sexclusivitaeten

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San Francisco, CA — (April 25th, 2011): Pink & White Productions, the award-winning porn company founded and directed by Shine Louise Houston, announced today a European distribution deal with Sexclusivitaeten in Berlin, Germany. A feminist enterprise, Sexclusivitaeten is run by Laura Meritt and Ula Stoeckl, President of the Feminist Porn Award Europe PorYes and Pioneer of Feminist Films. The distribution deal furthers the mission of Sexclusivitaeten, which is to support women and people of all genders in exploring and enjoying sexuality.

Pink & White Productions is known for portraying gender-fluidity and authentic queer desire through its film and online projects. Films have screened world-wide and director Shine Louise Houston has been honored at the PorYes Feminist Porn Awards in Berlin and was noted as Feminist Porn Awards’ “Visionary”, as well as Curve Magazine’s Sex Curator, adding authentic representation to queer sexualities that spans marginalized communities of color, gender expression and sexual desire, body politics, BDSM with strikingly beautiful cinematography, humor, and realism. The distribution deal comes at a time of company growth. Among unique endeavors such as Crash Pad Series, Houston’s newest site, Heavenly Spire explores masculine sexuality in her signature style.

European retailers can order Houston’s films through Sexclusivitaeten’s distribution line by calling Tel. (+49) 30 – 693 66 66 or emailing info@sexclusivitaeten.de. Sexclusivitaeten can be found online at sexclusivitaeten.net.

For more information about Pink & White Productions’ Films, paysites (crashpadseries.com, heavenlyspire.com) and its competitive affiliate programs, visit pinkwhite.biz.

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crashpadseries.com, Pink & White Productions

We’d also like to congratulate Courtney Trouble (Trouble Royale in Wild Search, Crash Pad Series Vol 1 and her outstanding non-sex role in Champion) for her nominations of Best Pro-Am Release for Seven Minutes in Heaven: Coming Out. Dana DeArmond (Superfreak) received several nominations! GoodVibes.com was nominated for Best Online Retailer, and their sister company Good Releasing’s HeartCore Line was nominated for Best New Video Line. Another nominee for Best Alternative Website is Kink.com. We’re thrilled to be in such great company!

Shine Louise Houston Launches Gay/Male Site HeavenlySpire.com!

Well-known Dyke/Queer Porn Director’s New Look at Masculine Sexuality

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — After making a name for herself directing beautifully shot dyke/queer porn, Feminist Porn Awards’ Visionary Director Shine Louise Houston has turned her sharp eye to the gays.

Fleshbot’s Bobby Calamitous writes, “Heavenly Spire is the newest branch of Shine Louis Houston’s alt-porn empire, and it’s brimming with the sort of cute queer boys you see skateboarding in your city’s downtown areas or chain smoking cigarettes in dive bars or attending Joanna Newsom concerts.” He adds, “These are the sort of alt-gays who are as wily as they are lovable, the sort of guys we feel like we’d date if we were more interesting people.”

Another fan of Houston’s work, Vivid-Ed director Tristan Taormino touts Houston as “one of the most influential, groundbreaking and talented queer filmmakers of this century.” Advocating that women watch gay porn, Taormino enthusiastically took note of the new site, commenting: “It features a group of ethnically-diverse models and couples, genuine chemistry, and Houston’s signature stunning cinematography.”

By dedicating the site to masculine beauty and sexuality and how it manifests on different bodies, Shine Louise Houston pushes the boundaries of a new visibility in gay porn: HeavenlySpire.com equally casts queer males as it does transsexual men. This inclusion is a rarity in gay male pornography, seen in recent years through the success of AVN Transsexual Performer of the Year Buck Angel, community-focused releases by Trannywood Pictures, and the popularity of trans performers on Houston’s dyke/queer paysite CrashPadSeries.com including Billy Castro, Cyd Loverboy, and James Darling.

HeavenlySpire.com also includes AVN pre-nominated best supporting actor Mickey Mod, Vid Tuesday, Marlo Davis, Steve Trevor, Sven, Essex, Ash, Bos, Tibby, Xavier, Bronc Hockensmith and Deluxxx Dash. Future models slated to join the site include Wolf Hudson and Deviant Kade. Models share an intimate interview where they disclose their personal fantasies, describe their sexuality, turn-ons, and what they physically like about themselves and one another.

While partially inspired by her love for gay male porn, Houston’s vision for HeavenlySpire.com came mainly from within. Says Houston, “Heavenly Spire is a personal project for me. Accepting my own masculinity has really allowed me to feel okay with desire for masculine people. Exploring it on the site really looks at male bodies the way I want to.”

HeavenlySpire.com showcases exclusive content including solo masturbation, couples’ sex with anal and blow jobs, and more viewed through weekly updates of streaming and downloadable videos. The website’s blog features interviews with industry professionals and chronicles events in the San Francisco and online gay community.

Webmasters earn 30 percent revenue share through CCBill with tools and embedded video trailers.
For more information, visit HeavenlySpire.com.

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From The Lesbian Lifestyle:

Crash Pad Series, from director Shine Louise Houston, is changing the face, the body and the soul of porn. This is for anyone who has watched porn and never seen a representation of their own gender in the actors on the screen, or for those who have avoided porn for that reason. In the vast majority (nearly all) of mainstream porn there are only normatively gendered bodies. The Crash Pad Series brings queer sexuality into play in ways I’ve never seen before in porn. With more representations of gender than you can shake a dick at, there’s something for everyone here. Whether you’re lesbian, bisexual, queer, pansexual, gay or straight, you need to experience the Crash Pad for yourself.

What is the Crash Pad? The Crash Pad is a place, an apartment, where people can go to have sex if they have the key. In the videos there is a “Key Master,” who is seen in the episodes to be watching a live feed of the action. This lends a sort of voyeuristic feel to it, which adds an interesting dimension to it. This draws the viewer into the piece in a way that porn doesn’t usually.

There’s a wealth of lesbian porn in the world, but so much of it features women with falsely perfect bodies, acts that are too vanilla or too hardcore and insincere. It’s always too something. Most porn leaves me wanting, but the Crash Pad left me sated. To say that the Crash Pad is hot would be a gross understatement. At each turn I found myself entranced and utterly turned on. I love the variety of gender expression and desires that are portrayed in this collection. The sex acts are diverse as well, ranging from bio-girl on transwoman penetrative sex with a strapon to lesbian sex without a strapon, to masturbation, to bondage and beyond.

I love the fact that you can download all the videos. Once I had done so, I looked forwards to watching an episode now and then as the mood struck. I took my time in carefully selecting an episode, sitting back to enjoy it on full screen and with the volume up. I wanted to hear this porn, I wanted to experience it, which I don’t want with all porn. Sometimes I watch porn on mute with music on instead so I don’t have to listen to forced moans and fake orgasms. There is nothing fake about the moans or orgasms at the Crash Pad. The moans are real, and hot, and the orgasms? Earth shattering and utterly real.

I love that many episodes feature real life couples. Dorian and Joie are one of them, and I love their episode simply because of their intimacy. It’s breathtaking to watch these two make love. Pepper and Trouble are another real life couple, and they’re like firecrackers together. I’m sure there are more, but I’d hate to presume and be wrong. Regardless, this is porn like you’ve never seen porn before. Go look at the Crash Pad Series website and check it out, and consider supporting some amazingly hot queer porn!

From Tristan Taormino:

The queer porn revolution is missing a key element: an independent gay male/queer boy presence. Sure, there is plenty of gay male porn out there—a ton, in fact. But most of it is produced by the mainstream gay porn industry. It’s slick, formulaic, and not so queer. The queer porn scene is really dominated by female, dyke, genderqueer, transmasculine, FTM, and transman directors, producers, performers, and films. Some of this porn includes man-on-man action of some kind. Besides Trannywood Pictures (which is about a very specific kind of man-on-man action), there is nothing dedicated to guy/guy desire and pleasure that is community-based in the way that Pink+White is. There is no gay male equivalent of Crash Pad, GoodDykePorn.com, or Cyber-Dyke (hey, people ask me all the time to make a gay version of Chemistry).

Until now. Shine Louise Houston—one of the most influential, groundbreaking and talented queer filmmakers of this century—has just launched her latest endeavor: HeavenlySpire.com, a site dedicated to “masculine appreciation … masculine beauty and sexuality and how it manifests on different bodies.” It features a group of ethnically-diverse models and couples, genuine chemistry, and Houston’s signature stunning cinematography. Check it out!

Photo courtesy of HeavenlySpire.com … and there’s more where that came from!

If the Feminist Porn Awards sound familiar, Shine’s films have received numerous awards at the Canadian Feminist Porn Awards presented by Good For Her, a female-friendly sex toy company in Toronto. This was the first time Europe has had a Feminist Porn Awards event, presented by Sexclusivitäten. Shine was honored as a porn pioneer for her work, along side other notable directors Candida Royalle, Annie Sprinkle, Maria Beatty, and Petra Joy.

Photo: Petra Joy

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Champion, directed by Shine Louise Houston, tells the story of a mixed martial arts fighter named Jessie — played by stinking-hot real life MMA fighter Syd Blakovich — and her trials in and out of the ring. ( Watch the trailer here.) I know I said just last week that buying porn for Valentine’s Day is courting disaster. Yeah, I’m gonna need to take that back in light of this new information.

Firstly, the lighting, sets, music (taiko drumming, a brilliant choice to build fight and sex scenes) and direction are all top-notch, art-house quality. Houston has succeeded in capturing on film the sex you think you’re having when you’re fucking but which — if you’ve ever videotaped yourself and were mortified by the static lumbering combined with fits of frantic jackhammering — seems to have eluded your own lens. (For all you film geeks out there, she shoots on a Panasonic DVX100b at 24p with a 35mm lens adaptor. I don’t know what that means but the results are gorgeous.)

She lingers, with superb editing, on sex scenes that do not dilly-dally themselves. Feverishly hardcore and deeply intimate all at once, the real kissing and passionate oral sex are so arousing and so delightfully greedy compared to the usual faux-lez, slack-jawed tongue rolling, bogus moaning and baby-voiced reprimands.

Every moment of Champion bursts with lust: well-tended butch hands yanking on long, pretty hair, pale flesh all red-hot from slaps, swift, hard penetration and, good lord, finally some decently turned out femmes — no tattered feather boas or god-awful clompy heels. And hey, does your boyfriend suck at digital and oral sex? Are you all like, “Bitch, where’d you learn to handle a pussy, at Butterfly School?” The lad needs to see this movie, trust me. The final scene lacks the same charged charisma as the others but virtually no fast-forwarding, not once.

Thank you, thank you, thank YOU Shine Louise, for making what is hands-down the best pornographic film I have ever seen. Thank you for improving queer female and trans porn by more leaps and bounds than words can adequately express. And thank you most of all for making a movie that I got so out-of-sorts watching at the Toronto premiere that I had to take not one, not two, but three people home to deal with the situation. (One of you left your copy at my house, by the way.) I don’t care who you are or what you like to fuck, it doesn’t seem possible that you won’t find this film utterly captivating. Champion is available locally at Good For Her.