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Shine Louise Houston is a highly awarded, queer, black woman filmmaker. She co-founded, and is the main director and producer of Pink and White Productions; an independent production company in San Francisco making queer pornography. They are heavily involved in the feminist and queer art community as well as sexual health and sex worker activism. Houston counters inauthentic representations in mainstream porn of (especially black) women’s, trans’, and queer folk’s, sexuality and desire. As a creator of cultural production, Houston gives historically marginalized people control over the production of images that represent their own identities. Featuring diverse body types and non-conforming genders as well as sexual identities, queer pornography is a platform to visibly make public the sexual subjectivity of queer people, and especially queer people of color, through self-representation. Shine Louis Houston is a community based cultural producer committed to widening fields of possibilities for (especially black) women’s and gender non-conforming folks’ sexuality and desire. Education

Houston received a Bachelors in Fine Art Film from the San Francisco Arts Institute.

Career

After graduating, Houston worked at a Good Vibrations sex shop for 5 years. During her time at Good Vibrations she was unable to recommend queer pornography to customers in search of representations of their own sexual communities. The community demand caused Houston to band together with some friends to create their own queer pornography. They founded Pink and White Productions and in 2008 launched the queer pornography distribution site CrashPadSeries.com. The companies first queer porn feature “Crash Pad”, starring Jiz Lee, establishes the location of all the subsequent CrashPadSeries episodes. The Crash Pad is an apartment located in San Francisco dedicated to mutual pleasure based queer sex and Shine Louise Houston acts as Key Keeper to The Crash Pad. Houston incorporates into the scene her presence behind the camera via her own kink, and participation, as a voyeur. In the feature ‘SuperFreak’ she stars as the ghost of Rick James. The ghost possesses people on a mission to turn the whole word into SuperFreaks having great sex. All models in Pink and White Productions videos seek them out, and Houston organizes scenes around the model’s personal fantasizes. CrashPadSeries.com debuts episodic, reality based, queer pornography videos. . The site is set-up like a blog, featuring photos and identity profiles of the stars to make visible the alternate gender identities and sexualities represented in their videos. Houston is currently in post-production for their next feature, Snapshot, a horror dedicated to complicating the limited ‘coming out’ narrative that is predominantly featured in media.

Awards

CrashPadSeries.com – 2012 Feminist Porn Awards BEST WEBSITE HeavenlySpire.com – Nominated 2011 Feminist Porn Awards Crash Pad Series Volume 6 – Nominated 2011 Feminist Porn Awards “Best Alternative Website” Nomination 2011 AVN Awards - crashpadseries.com “Audience Choice Award” 2010 Feminist Porn Awards presented by Good For Her - Crash Pad Series Volume 5 (Shawn & Mickey Mod) “Movie of the Year” 2009 Feminist Porn Awards presented by Good For Her - CHAMPION: Love Hurts “Best Video Feature” Nomination 2010 AVN Awards - CHAMPION: Love Hurts “Steamiest Trans Sex Scene” 2000 Feminist Porn Awards presented by Good For Her - Crash Pad Series Volume 2 (Julie & Michelle Aston) “Best Dyke Sex Film” 2008 Feminist Porn Awards presented by Good For Her - Crash Pad Series Volume 1 “Best Trans Sex Scene” 2007 Feminist Porn Awards presented by Good For Her - The Wild Search (Papi Cox & Will Thrustwell) “Best Dyke Sex Scene” 2007 Feminist Porn Awards presented by Good For Her - Superfreak (Lorelei Lee, Princess Donna & Dana Dearmond) “Best Dyke Sex Scene” 2006 Feminist Porn Awards presented by Good For Her - The Crash Pad (Jiz Lee & Shawn) Selected, Outfest 2006, the 26th Annual Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Selected, 18th Annual Vancouver Queer Film Fest Selected, Cineffable 2006, Paris, France Vixens + Visionaries Independent Porn Awards - “Best Dyke Sex Scene” The Crash Pad

Influences Anni Sprinkle Joani Black Rick James Alfred Hitchcock Antonioni

Other Sources pinkandwhite website crashpad indieagogo for latest project

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