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The “monthlong summer camp for adults” features Starseed sharing imaginative
content in beautiful locations with high-quality merch and more.
Starseed expressed gratitude for her cam room and her MFC community.
“It’s surreal that I’m standing here in this moment,” Emma said backstage. “I’ve
been trying to collect myself because I didn’t want to cry up there.
“I feel like first of all winning this award is just a win for the girls who are truly
themselves. It’s such an amazing opportunity to be yourself and make money just
being us, cultivating that community and that brand doing what we love to do.
“And I think this is just a win for everybody who wants to be unapologetically
themselves.”
Starseed, who lives and works on a hobby farm and cares for several animals, told
AVN there are countless talented women in the cam community.
“There’s so many models who work their asses off and pour their heart into what
they do,” Emma continued. “I’m honored to represent MFC and all of the women on
that nominees list this awards season because every single one of them deserves it
just as much as me.”
Ricky Greenwood returned to the AVN Awards stage for a second time with the
cast and crew of his rousing western Gold Diggers, which captured the Grand Reel
award—marking the second straight year Digital Playground has produced the
year’s best narrative movie.
The French-Canadian auteur thanked his publicist Erika Icon, and his cast and
crew, giving a special shootout to his director of photography Matt Holder.
“He work with me on the first movie I made and he always has my back, Matt
Holder, I love you, thank you very much to be great,” Greenwood said on stage. “I
also want to thank Digital Playground, Ryan, Rachel. You let me do that movie, that
movie was not easy. It was very cold girls, right? They had sex in the middle of the
night. We shot this western in November and we had some night scene and it was
not easy.
“And we had a windstorm at some point that we had to shut down the movie.”
Earlier in the ceremony Greenwood won Outstanding Directing - Individual Work
for Gold Diggers, expressing a special admiration for the work of retired Hall of Fame
director Axel Braun, who presented the award to him along with Destiny Mira and
Jewelz Blu.
In the backstage winners circle, several cast and crew members embraced as
Adria Rae, Kimmy Granger, Vicki Chase, Karla Lane, Gal Ritchie, Scott Nails, Seth
Gamble, Ricky Johnson, Alex Jones, Nathan Bronson and Manny Bucks joined the
celebration.
“Honestly, it’s the most fun I’ve ever had. Horses, guns and whores. How do you
go wrong?” Nails, who is part of the Hall of Fame Class of 2025, told AVN.
Greenwood said Nails grew a handlebar mustache for his role as outlaw Charles
Glanton—and he still has it.
“He cut that mustache for us and he keep it the rest of his life,” Ricky joked. “Adria
was amazing in it.”
Gold Diggers, which was shot at a private property in San Bernardino, Calif.,
entered the show with seven nominations and also earned the Best Threeway Sex
Scene award for the encounter with Granger, Rae and Gamble. The trio found out
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