The Naked Truth Adult Entertainment Awards 2011
Also known as: TNT AE Awards ’11

Last night was the second year for The Naked Truth Adult Entertainment Awards. This event is put on by NakedTruth.ca Community. Last year I was presented with a couple of awards in the adult film category. See my blog post about it HERE. This year once again Good Dyke Porn™ was recognized for Best Website: Performer’s Choice and Customer’s Choice as well as Best Girl on Girl scene. I was especially delighted to personally receive the award for Best Cinematographer.
I was presented with Best Cinematographer fairly early on in the awards so I introduced myself and our website and made a few key points while expressing my gratitude for being included in these awards. I mentioned how my aim as a filmmaker was to capture women’s desires and to give the people in front of the camera the responsibility to create the scene for themselves in a way that is true to their own sexuality. I told them that I, too, get in front of the camera and I feel that helps to build trust between me and the performer. That got a reaction from the crowd. It’s weird giving speeches when your face is red with fear of being in front of a crowd, the heat of the lights is enhancing the sweat and blinding your vision to see anything but shadows. But, that’s showbiz, I guess. Finally, when talking about how I facilitate the authentic expression women’s sexuality I stop and clarify, “well, queer women are my specialty.” Much laughter and applause from the audience as I blush and shrug and gesture as if to say “obviously.”
I thought I was going to be brought up to the stage to accept the Good Dyke Porn™ award for Best Website so I saved all my prepared material for then. But, I guess they figured twice was enough and I didn’t actually go up again. What I was intending to say was in regards to queer porn in general. I wanted to explain to the audience how it differentiates itself from mainstream porn by focusing on authenticity, safe space, freedom to choose safer-sex with options available, performer agency in what they do, diversity in body sizes and shades, gender and sexuality, and a supportive collaborative community. I am so proud to be an integral contributor to queer porn through Good Dyke Porn™.
The other trip to the stage was for Best Girl on Girl Scene which was actually for the film submission of Courtney Trouble and Jolene Parton, directed by Shanna Katz, which we called, “Slumber Party“. At this point I was still expecting to go up for the Best Website so I just playfully said, “We prefer to call our models women, but I know what you mean.” The audience replied with laughter and applause. Charlie Spats also joined me on stage that time so I could introduce him as my “right-hand man”.
It was a super fun night. It’s an odd little awards celebration that brings a variety of pleasure professionals together. There were strippers, sex-work advocates, academics, mainstream media, DJs, photographers, sex supplies businesses, and much more than were able to be at the event itself. So many people were expressing congratulations to me and a few people were already familiar with my work and told me how much they appreciated it. I was approached by an academic to contribute to her research on “trying to create evidence of how ‘off-street’ sex industry work can take place in safe environments”.
I feel extremely lucky to be doing what I’m doing. Thank you everyone.

Samantha Mack was the beautiful and hilarious MC of the night again this year.


The Awards!

Perhaps a slight adjustment of the award budget?
(No, no! I’m grateful, I promise!)








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