Erika Lust Films was founded by Erika Lust and her husband Pablo Dobner in 2004. With fifteen in-house staff, from press and communications and content, to web developers and graphic designers, and another fifteen of Barcelona’s best female filmmaking crew during shoots, the company is committed towards building a sustainable business model that not only fosters Erika Lust productions, but also leads the path to change porn and develop a better way of approaching it.
High production values are a constant priority. From the camera, a state of-the-art Arri Alexa, to the clothes – a wardrobe manager works in close collaboration with several well-known fashion brands – from locations to scripts and acting, the whole process is geared towards creating a sex positive, joyful, and cinematic experience.
Erika Lust’s Biography
Erika Lust is a filmmaker, mother, writer, blogger, owner and founder of Erika Lust Films, where she offers an alternative to the mainstream porn industry. She is also the creator of groundbreaking audiovisual Project XConfessions.com, the first crowdsourced series that brought adult film to cinema screens.
Born in 1977 in Sweden, she studied political sciences, feminism and sexuality at the University of Lund. Tired of chauvinistic and tacky mainstream porn, she moved to Barcelona in 2000 where she took classes in film directing before bursting into the adult industry in 2004, with the indie short film The Good Girl – a humorous statement of principles using the “pizza delivery boy” trope. The immediate success of this first attempt encouraged her to pursue a career in adult cinema. Erika has directed four multi-award winning features: Five Hot Stories For Her, Barcelona Sex Project, Life Love Lust and Caberet Desire, and has also written five books including Let’s Make A Porno and her acclaimed erotic novel La Canción de Nora (“Nora’s Song”).
In 2013 Erika began the XConfessions series, a site where users watch short films based on their own anonymous sexual confessions. Every month Erika Lust picks two of her followers’ fantasies and turns them into erotic explicit short films. Now in it’s third year, Erika has filmed over 100 short films, released XConfessions seventh volume, and has now invited guest directors to be part of the project, supporting the burgeoning alternative talent across the globe.
In 2015, she gave her “It’s Time for Porn to Change” talk at TEDxVienna which gained her notoriety for her campaign to change porn. Erika’s philosophy for a new adult cinema is based on 4 main ideas: women’s pleasure matters, adult cinema can have cinematic values, we need more body types, different ages, and diverse races, and the production process has to be ethical. She defends the importance of the female gaze and the need of having women behind the camera in all key positions.
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