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“I’ve designed myself as an artist that refuses to be limited by my capabilities.”
There’s a beautiful mansion in the remote hills of SoCal, down a crooked canyon road, behind wrought iron gates, with lush lawns and limitless views of the horizon. There’s 20-foot ceilings in the living room, a spiral staircase, and arched entryways that lead to an all-white master suite with a big, comfy bed—the perfect location for the upcoming installments of Leana Lovings’ directorial debut for the Intimately POV series for streaming platform Adult Time.
As a brand ambassador and freshman director for Adult Time, Lovings told AVN she’s interested in intimacy and how that can be arousing for a digital audience that’s craving closeness and depictions of passionate, penetrative (or not) sex. What she wants is the erotic embrace, kissing, hand-holding, and an aura of authenticity. Lusty love, POV style.
“I started, officially, as a cam girl and I did that because I wanted to explore my sexuality. I come from a very religious, controlled environment and I realized that I didn’t want to be afraid of my body. I wanted to embrace my sexuality and I wanted to know what it was like to not fear and just embrace that joy inside of me,” Lovings told AVN.
“I’ve designed myself as an artist that refuses to be limited by my capabilities. I want to be able to do whatever my heart tells me that I want to be—that is as a performer, that is as a director—whatever it requires of me, my passion is always going to play a part,” she added.
While the setting looks pristine in each frame on camera, outside the shot, there are boxes of equipment, lights, ladders, and crew setting up while the performers run a few lines and get a feel for the upcoming scene.
AVN Hall of Fame director/cinematographer Sal Genoa is the first camera, alongside veteran production pro Joel Sinclair, who was lighting the set and has been behind the scenes on adult productions since starting as an editor at his parents’ specialty video business in the ’90s.
The first script, titled “Do You Trust Me?” paired AVN Hall of Fame performer/director Dana Vespoli and handsome Nathan Bronson in a stepmom/stepson scenario with anal. While that may not sound terribly romantic, Lovings is intent on infusing the scenario with sweet emotion.
Award-winning Adult Time Chief Creative Officer Bree Mills also was on set and concerned with keeping on schedule. She hoped to have the second scene, a lesbian duo with Jessica Ryan and Chloe Surreal, started by 6 p.m. so they could take advantage of the natural light at sunset—the Golden Hour. Working side-by-side with Lovings, she advised on-camera angles and pacing for the actors as they watched the shots unfold on dual iPad monitors.
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