Anna Span – Interview with Anna Span, Britains first female porn director

Anna Span is Britain's first female porn director

British porn director Anna Span started shooting porn films after graduating from Central St Martin's School of Art, London with a BA Hons in Fine Art (Film & Video) in 1998.

It was there that she wrote her dissertation 'Towards A New Pornography' in which she looked at what a female perspective on porn would look like, as well as what an excellent genre porn is.

Anna Span is Britain's first female porn director

In 1998 she started a full-length porn feature, which she tried to finance herself, in collaboration with Ben Westwood, son of Vivienne on the styling. Unfortunately she didn't know a thing about how to actually shoot it, so she lost all her money, about 4,500 pounds which kept her in painting and decorating for the next year, in order to pay off the debt.

During this time several projects were offered by several unscrupulous producers which all ended up to be hot air. It was at this time that she started her 'Interviews With Men' series in which she asked naked men about their fantasies whilst they masturbated (soon to be released on video).

Eventually Anna got a break at Television X with her first ever commercially released programme 'Eat Me/Keep Me' starring a nubile Nadia and Majella posing as two art school friends of hers whom she interviewed about their stripping experiences outside of college. The show was an immediate success, leading to a complete series and then others were to follow, totalling around 75 shows in just under three years.

At this time Anna was also working at the TVX offices as an editor, originally full time - that's 35 hours of watching porn a week as well as shooting programmes at weekends. She managed to keep her sanity (just about). During this time she watched several hundred porn films and programmes, often, ironically, having to make the censorious legal cuts that our dear friends the ITC believe are necessary to keep society from completely changing their sexuality and turning into raving paedophiles.

She learnt the exact point at which a shot becomes illegal and she used this experience to make her softcore films exactly as hard as the guidelines would allow, rather than prioritising the hardcore camera and making the soft a poorer option as is often the case,

Anna decided to focus on developing her skills in the softcore area where she had a definite market and which, due to censorship, required more skill to make sexy as you can't rely on the explicitness of the image. This experience was invaluable when she eventually started to shoot hardcore as well.

After many films and way too much experience, Anna wrote and photographed her first book, 'Erotic Home Video,' which was released in March 2003 by Carlton Publishing, a manual to guide couples in the art of home porn film making. She has now released her first available hardcore tapes/DVDs 'Uniform Behaviour, ' 'Anna's Mates' and 'Pound a Punnet'. You can also access her work now on G3 phones.

Previously considered careers include Barrister (has GCSE and A Level Law), Psychologist (has A Level Psychology), Actress (has A Level Theatre Studies) Painter (has A Level Art) Singer (tried desperately to train her stray singing voice) and Philosopher. She has 6 GCSE's, 3 A levels, 1 National Diploma in Foundation Studies and 1 BA Hons. All of which she gained very average grades for (see Hobbies: likes partying and drinking.) She is currently studying Philosophy.

Anna is liberal and open-minded but politically she supports The Labour Party, for all its sins. Anna lives in Soho, London.

Privately, Anna is into all sorts of things, mainly partying and drinking - but also the contemporary arts, film, music, philosophy, photography, travelling (in early twenties she travelled around U.S.A, Cuba, Jamaica, Israel, Egypt, Europe, South Africa, Namibia and Zimbabwe,) reading, fashion, music, shopping - and porn, porn, porn!!!

You can find out more about myself and my work at www.annaspansdiary.com »

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