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LIGHT’S, CAMERA
DOUBLE THE PLEASURE
Kay Brandt delivers two all-girl extravaganzas for Adam & Eve
T
here’s no doubt that
director Kay Brandt is
flying high. After all, her
hot sequel Adventures With
the Baumgartners won Best
Polyamory Movie at the
2018 AVN Awards, and
she herself was nommed
for Best Director – Feature and Best Screenplay
(for Baumgartners, of course), and the movie landed
a nod for Best Marketing Campaign – Individual
Project. Plus, there were various nominations for the
performers who appeared in Baumgartners. And that’s
just this year.
“Babysitting the Baumgartners, which came out in
August of 2016, has been a chart-topping movie
for Shaw Broadcasting throughout Canada, and Sky
Broadcasting in Germany, and it’s been the most
watched movie for two years in a row on HotMovies;
it has beat out thousands of other titles for two
years,” Brandt noted with only a light touch of pride.
But, she admitted, adapting novels, even her own,
into XXX movies is surprisingly difficult and entails a
lot of effort.
“It’s the last great frontier in adult, in my opinion,
because everything’s been done except for book
adaptations, and they’re not easy to do,” Brandt
explained. “They take a lot more work than just
writing a script because you have to break down a
novel and you have to be true to it, and it’s difficult
because not only do I make the books from other
authors into movies, but I’ve been making my own
books into movies, and even that’s really challenging
because I have to be my own worst critic and be able
to cut through my books and say, ‘Okay, this stays,
this happens, this stays, this happens.’ That’s tough.”
Above, from left, Eliza Jane, Honey Gold, Jill Kassidy and Scarlett Sage. Below, Riley Nixon and Honey Gold.
It may be hard work, but Brandt clearly enjoys it—and Adam & Eve Pictures likes the results a lot. She’s
shooting several movies for the studio this year, including Unleashed, for which AVN got to enjoy an on-set visit.
“Unleashed is a nine-starlet picture,” Brandt said, “Nine starlets that were nominated for major awards are in
this. It’s a showcase, but it’s a showcase amped up on acid. It’s got a lot more than just five scenes; it’s got a lot
of glue holding the vignettes together that’s telling their story. We’re doing interviews, we’re doing montages in
between the scenes. It’s a little bit of the girls’ own stories. I don’t want to get too personal. Other filmmakers
do that, but this is more fun; this is more about them just being crazy and being empowered young women who
are making a name for themselves in the business.”
“IT’S A SHOWCASE, BUT IT’S A SHOWCASE
AMPED UP ON ACID. IT’S GOT A LOT MORE
THAN JUST FIVE SCENES. … WE’RE DOING
INTERVIEWS, WE’RE DOING MONTAGES IN
BETWEEN.”
ON THE SET | By Mark Kernes
Trouble is, even with shooting taking place just over two very long days, Brandt turned in so much good
footage that the Powers That Be had to make a decision—and what they decided is to cut the original four-hour (!)
movie down to two separate titles: Unleashed, and one consisting solely of interviews with the gals plus their solo
scenes, to be titled Loving Myself. Both will be released in June.
The ostensible plot of Unleashed, as described by Brandt: “Nine of the 2018 winners and nominated starlets
gather together for a decadent ‘release party’ to celebrate each other as empowered women. Showing off their
youthful exuberance, these naughty ladies explore their female fantasies and set their desires free with each
other. Indulging in five erotic flavors of lesbian sex, including kinky fetish play, strap-ons, body massages and
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