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worked on a feature this big, and I don’t think I really realized at first
how big the whole thing was. I was a little taken aback and a bit nervous
at first.”
Veracruz said the dark story line was very different that anything she
had done before, but she was willing to tackle the project based on her
previous work with Girlsway. “They really encourage their members and
their performers to interact with one another,” she said. “They made it
a point early on to tell us, ‘You are a girl-girl performer and we want to
support that. We want to work with you to make the best content we
can.’ Before we ever started shooting, Bree sat down with me, telling me
what she saw in the character and what she thought I could do with it.
She really made it a point to sit down with everyone and help them bring
their character to life.”
Mills noted the project relied heavily on the talents of Veracruz,
Summer and all the stars.
“In particular, we wanted to use this project (our first feature) to
really challenge some of our top models, in the same way we like to
challenge our crew,” she said. “We strategically cast performers who love
to act, who care about their content, and who were willing to put in the
long, hard hours required to pull this off. In the end, I believe we have
captured career-topping performances from some of the best models in
the industry: India Summer, Vanessa Veracruz, Shyla Jennings, Abigail
Mac, Samantha Rone, and Charlotte Stokely.
“Fans have gone absolutely nuts for this series—asking for spinoffs
and second seasons!” Mills continued. “So, naturally we’ve already
released a prequel for some of the characters and are weaving the BOW
”One of my great passions is to take
inspiration from mainstream film genres
and twist them around for our industry.
Each of the feature projects that Alan and I
co-direct are heavily inspired by a
specific cinematic theme.
—Bree Mills, Gamma Films
storyline through some of our other series. We aren’t known as the ‘Marvel Comics of Lesbian
Porn’ for nothing!”
For as much buzz as The Business of Women got for its film noir style, Mills and Alan are going
in a different direction for their next feature, The Turning, and dabbling in the horror genre.
“I believe we are entering into a new era of adult filmmaking, one that really challenges the
status quo of what porn should and should not be,” Mills said. “One of my great passions is
to take inspiration from mainstream film genres and twist them around for our industry. Each
of the feature projects that Alan and I co-direct are heavily inspired by a specific cinematic
theme—such as film noir for The Business of Women and horror for The Turning. We love to give
these as challenges to our crew, because they bring such a wealth of experience, expertise,
and sense of experimentation to our productions. As for what to expect from The Turning, I
think it reflects exactly where Girlsway is right now. This project is firing from all cylinders:
From the level of pre-production to the tremendous all-star cast to our editing and worldwide
release campaign, we are trying to make a statement with this feature because I truly believe
it’s the best thing we’ve done so far.”
Girlsway officially marks its one-year anniversary in October 2015, and there are no plans
of holding back or slowing down, Mills said. She noted she and Alan plan to have at least
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