Jennifer Lyon Bell

Jennifer Lyon Bell (born August 6, 1969 in Concord, Massachusetts) is an erotic film director/producer, curator, teacher, and writer. She is one of the early members of the feminist pornography movement and ethical porn movement, alongside Erika Lust, Shine Louise Houston, Tristan Taormino, and Maria Beatty. She is the founder and creative director of the independent production company Blue Artichoke Films in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

She has honors degrees from Harvard University in Psychology, (B.A.) and from the University of Amsterdam in Film + Television Studies (M.A.).

Films
Bell’s films have been cited for their sense of intimacy, realism, and authenticity.

Bell says she aims to create positive social change with her erotic films by purposely eroticizing sexual communication between partners, by diversifying portrayals of gender, and by showing diversity in both casting (diverse race, body type, etc.) and in showing the flexible, diverse, creative nature of sex. Her films have been covered in Vice, BuzzFeed, Playboy, Filmmaker, Dazed, Cosmopolitan, and Huffington Post, among others.