want to thank AVN for sending Steve Javors to my studio last week to do an article on my upcoming TV show that will air this fall.
http://business.avn.com/articles/vid…nd-434052.html
Porno Dan Set to Star in Reality Show ‘The Right Hand’
CHATSWORTH, Calif.—Self-proclaimed one man circus, director and producer “Porno” Dan Leal, CEO of Immoral Productions, is the focus of an upcoming reality show debuting this Fall in Canada called The Right Hand.
The show follows Leal’s exploits as he trains Brandon Macintosh, a recent college graduate from a small town in Canada, seeking an entry-level job in the movie business. Macintosh applies online, gets the job and agreed to be filmed as Leal’s right-hand man.
Camera crews have been following Leal and Macintosh’s daily activities since August at the Exxxtacy Convention in Chicago. Numerous directors and performers are featured in the series including Jim Powers, Craven Moorehead, Ralph Long, Victoria White, Sindee Jennings, Jessie Andrews, Jackie Daniels, Haley Cummings and Amy Brooke.
View The Right Hand’s trailer at EWLMedia.com. Leal and EWL have been shopping the pilot to cable distributors in the U.S. and other countries. The pilot has been shopped in Cannes, France and other media conventions.
The concept for the show came after Leal was introduced to Pure Play CEO Richard Arnold at the Venus Berlin show in 2009, after Arnold’s friend overheard Leal talking about his misadventures in the German capital. Arnold met Leal and was entertained by his hijinks. Arnold serves as the show’s executive producer.
“At first I wasn’t interested, but as Richard and I got to talking, I agreed to film a pilot that would chronicle my adventures with my PA,” Leal told AVN. “The pilot episode was filmed in Chicago while we produced a volume in [Immoral’s] Fuck A Fan series.”
Leal first started in the business submitting amateur content he filmed to GM Video almost 12 years ago. Leal, from Washington, D.C., studied economics at George Mason University before working in corporate sales for a decade.
Adult stars featured in the pilot include Sea J. Raw, Sara Jay, Charisma Cappelli, Andrews and Brooke. After the pilot was sold to The Movie Network and Movie Central in Canada, and agreed to a 30-minute, 12-episode season, Arnold agreed to finance the remaining 11 installments.
Filming for the season is roughly halfway done, Leal said. In addition to Chicago, camera crews captured Leal and his band of misfits in Las Vegas at the Adult Entertainment Expo and the AVN Awards, in New Orleans at Mardi Gras and in Los Angeles at the Immoral Productions studios.
“I’m showing Brandon what its like to be at Immoral Productions, the renegade porn studio that has more fun than anybody. I don’t shoot porn like anyone else. I’m not an artist. I’m a pornographer. I want to have fun and shoot adult entertainment, key word being entertainment. I shoot live every time.”
Immoral maintains an ambitious production schedule shooting live themed shows almost every night broadcast on ImmoralTube.com. Its content is repackaged on DVD and distributed by Pure Play Media.
Immoral’s Squirtamania series won a 2011 AVN Award for Best Squirting Series and the studio produces eight DVDs monthly that Pure Play Media distributes.
Leal is known in the industry as a hard worker and an even harder partier. Porn’s own wild and crazy guy.
“I’m a workaholic—I work 80 hours a week,” Leal said. “And then I have the Porno Dan persona that I put out at events and parties, which is just one component of my life. When I go out and decide to have fun, I have more fun in those four hours than most people probably have in four months. I don’t think anyone can keep up with me. I think people see that and say, ‘Oh, that guy is really crazy,’ but I’m just a guy that likes to have fun. There’s the method to my madness.”
Leal hopes that viewers will be left with a positive impression of the industry, challenging many preconceived notions many have about porn and the people who make it.
“I hope people see the different facets of the adult industry, and here we are, this small independent production company doing our thing and having more fun than anyone else. I hope they can see our show, see what we do every day and it challenges their notion of what they think or feel about porn. I also hope they like it enough for us to have a second season!
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I also want to thank Dan Miller from XBIZ for taking the time to interview for their story as well.
http://www.xbiz.com/news/133512
Porno Dan, Immoral Productions Land New Reality Show
Porno Dan, Immoral Productions Land New Reality Show
LOS ANGELES — Notorious producer Porno Dan and his production assistant Brandon Macintosh are the subjects of a new reality show being filmed for international broadcast this fall.
Titled “The Right Hand,” the show revolves around Macintosh and Porno Dan’s often outrageous daily activities as they produce and shoot hardcore sex scenes for Leal’s company Immoral Productions.
Twelve 30-minute episodes of the series will be broadcast on Canada’s The Movie Network and Movie Central beginning in November through a distribution deal with the Toronto-based EWL Media.
“The concept is about the adventures that my production assistant Brandon and I have in our happy little world of shooting porn,” said Immoral CEO Dan Leal, aka Porno Dan, an 11-year veteran of the adult industry originally from Washington D.C.
“They’ve already filmed our trips to Chicago for the Exxxtacy Show, New Orleans for Mardi Gras, Vegas [for AEE], and our live shows in Los Angeles.”
While at the Immoral headquarters in Chatsworth, Calif., Leal & Co. shoot live content five days a week for their network of websites and their DVD distribution deal with Pure Play Media.
The “The Right Hand” film crew has shot footage of Leal doing everything from quality control to box cover design and “every single facet of content production,” he said. In addition to his business dealings, “The Right Hand” will also offer a candid glimpse into his social life as he makes the rounds at industry parties, where he has long been known as a free spirit.
“We shot the pilot at the Exxxtacy show last July in Chicago. They shot the pilot on spec, and then the pilot got picked up,” Leal said.
He said the producers actually approached him about doing the series after conversations with Pure Play Media CEO Richard Arnold, who saw the absurdity of some of Leal’s daily life while both were at the Venus Berlin Show in October 2009. Arnold is the executive producer of “The Right Hand.”
“We’ve already shot eight of the 12 episodes and we have three more to shoot in LA and then the season finale,” Leal said, noting that the show is R-rated with nudity but no hardcore sex.
“It’s not as hard as some of the shows on cable right now,” Leal said.
His right-hand man, Macintosh, a recent college graduate and aspiring filmmaker, got the Immoral gig after responding to an online job posting.
“We got over 100 applicants and he was the best one,” Leal said. “We told him that part of what your job entailed was being filmed.”
In addition to Leal and Macintosh, numerous adult performers and Immoral Productions regulars appear on the show, which is billed as a “docu-soap series.”
“Ralph Long is in a lot of the episodes, of course my partner Jim Powers and some of the girls,” Leal said.
Notably, porn stars Amy Brooke, Jessie Andrews, Haley Cummings, Victoria White, Jackie Daniels, Sindee Jennings, Britney Amber, Sea J. Raw, Sara Jay, Charisma Cappelli and Heather Starlet all have been filmed.
“There’s a ton of others too, probably at least 30 different girls,” he continued. “I’ve never done anything like this before. Nothing can compare. I didn’t realize how much work it is but I enjoy it.”
Leal, who has an economics degree from George Mason University and worked for 10 years in corporate sales for Fortune 500 companies prior to porn, said the experience so far has been a blast.
“I’ve always loved the camera since I was a little boy,” Leal said. “My favorite story is when my uncle got married, I was the ring bearer and I kept waving at the camera because everyone wanted to take my picture. So to me it’s a great thing having a camera following me all day. Some people would think it’s too intrusive. Not me, I think it’s fantastic.”
On Thursday night, Leal’s company teamed with AEBN and L.A. Direct Models to raise almost $3,000 for breast cancer awareness by throwing a fundraising party at Studio City’s R Lounge in association with King Ryan Events.
“Our goal was to raise a thousand and we did more than double that,” Leal said.
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