Shine Louise Houston – a voyeur with a production company

As the founding producer and director of Pink & White Productions, (CrashPadSeries.com, PinkLabel.tv), SHINE LOUISE HOUSTON has always had unique vision. Graduating from San Francisco Arts Institute with a Bachelors in Fine Art Film, her works have become the new gold standard of adult cinema. During a five year position at the women-owned, sex toy purveyor Good Vibrations, Shine recognized an underserved demand for an alternative to mainstream pornography, and began to create well-crafted queer made porn. Shine’s films have been recognized among the next big wave of women produced porn and have been internationally screened from Amsterdam to New Zealand.

QUOTES

“There is power in creating images, and for a woman of color and a queer to take that power… I don’t find it exploitative; I think it’s necessary.”
-Shine Louise Houston
Director and Producer, Pink and White Productions

“I believe there’s a lot of room and need to create adult content that’s real, that’s respectful and powerful … I think it’s the perfect place to become political. It’s a place where money, sex, media, and ethics converge.”
-Shine Louise Houston
Director and Producer, Pink and White Productions

“I wish that people would just consider porn as another film genre, because that’s what it is.”
-Shine Louise Houston
Director and Producer, Pink and White Productions

Quotes about Shine Louise Houston

“There are only three words in porn: Shine. Louise. Houston.”
– Tony Comstock

“Shine is the producer, director and creator behind what is one of the hottest, most authentic lesbian porn companies around.”
– Violet Blue

“Houston has taken real lesbian porn to the next level.”
– Viviane’s Sex Carnival

“Pink & White – Houston’s production company – and Houston herself – have been hailed again and again as innovative, cutting edge, and authentic, and though it is starting to sound redundant, I can’t not praise her vision enough: she directs real genderqueer porn, with butches, femmes, bois, and trans folks, in real scenarios with real sex that both inspires and reflects my own sex life. I never saw myself reflected in porn until I started watching Houston’s work – and for that, I will pick up every DVD Houston releases, to support her.”
– Sinclair Sexsmith

AWARDS AND HONORS

CineKink 2020 Spotlight Artist of the Year
Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club “Sylvester Pride In The Arts Award”
Honored with a California Legislature Assembly Certificate of Recognition
Curve Magazine’s “Queer Sex Trailblazer”
Feminist Porn Awards “Visionary”
Curve Magazine’s Lesbian Sex Culture Curator Award
PorYes Europe’s 1st Feminist Porn Awards Honored Filmmaker
International Ms Leather Keynote Speaker

FILM PROJECTS
Feature-length Films:
The Crash Pad
Superfreak
The Wild Search
CHAMPION: Love Hurts
SNAPSHOT
Chemistry Eases the Pain

Compilations:
Crash Pad Series Volume 1
Crash Pad Series Volume 2
Crash Pad Series Volume 3
Crash Pad Series Volume 4
Crash Pad Series Volume 5
Crash Pad Series Volume 6
Crash Pad Series Volume 7
CrashPadSeries Volume 8
CrashPadSeries Volume 9
Her Porn 2
Her Porn 3
Her Porn 4
Her Porn 6
Heavenly Spire Volume 1

Short Films:
OCCUPIED: a queer hardcore romance for the 99%
BED PARTY: Eden Alexander and Sebastian Keys
BED PARTY: Nikki Darling & Jack HammerXL
The Boss (Nina Hartley & Sara Vibes)
CrashPad’s Guide to Fisting
PUT the NEEDLE on the RECORD
Training Day
Writing in Bed
BIRTHDAY
Camera and I
MEET THE CAMERA
FOCUS (coming to PinkLabel.TV soon)

Past Web Projects:
CrashCourse (educational filmmaking resources and workshops)
Point of Contact (emerging pornographer series)
HeavenlySpire (masculine appreciation)
Tickle Takedown (tickle torture fantasy project)

Websites:
PinkWhite.biz (company website)
CrashPadSeries.com (queer porn studio)
PinkLabel.tv (indie adult streaming platform)
San Francisco PornFilmFestival (annual adult film festival)

Project Awards & Honors
“Best Featurette – Chemistry Eases the Pain” 2021 AVN Awards Nominee
“Best Solo/Tease Performance – Jasko Fide (Camera and I)” 2021 AVN Awards Nominee
“Lotus Lain Best Actress – Featurette (Chemistry Eases the Pain)” 2021 AVN Awards Nominee
“Logan Pierce Best Actor – Featurette (Chemistry Eases the Pain)” 2021 AVN Awards Nominee
“Best Acting — Lead (Lotus Lain, Chemistry Eases the Pain)” 2021 XBiz Awards Nominee
“Best Acting — Supporting (Logan Pierce, Chemistry Eases the Pain)” 2021 XBiz Awards Nominee
“Best Girl/Girl Sex Scene (Mona Wales and Lotus Lain, Chemistry Eases the Pain)” 2021 XBiz Awards Nominee
“Female-Produced Site of the Year” (PinkLabel.TV) 2020 XBiz Awards Nominated
“Female-Produced Site of the Year” (CrashPadSeries.com) 2020 XBiz Awards Nominated
“Female-Produced Site of the Year” (PinkLabel.TV) 2019 XBiz Awards Nominated
“Female-Produced Site of the Year” (CrashPadSeries.com) 2019 XBiz Awards Nominated
“Honorable Best Mention” 2018 Cinekink Film Festival – Writing in Bed
“Best Porn Studio” 2017 Best of the Bay, San Francisco BAY GUARDIAN
“Movie of the Year” 2017 Toronto International Porn Festival – SNAPSHOT
“Best Straight Sex Scene” 2017 Toronto International Porn Festival – BED PARTY: Jack HammerXL and Nikki Darling
“Best Narrative Feature” 2017 CINEKINK NYC Audience Choice Awards – SNAPSHOT
“Audience Winner” La Fete du Slip – CrashPad’s Guide to Fisting
“Best Orgasm” 2015 BRIEFS Erotic Short Film Competition – CrashPad End of the Year Finale
“Best Porn Studio” 2014 Best of the Bay, San Francisco BAY GUARDIAN
“Feminist Porn Release of the Year” 2015 XBiz Awards Nominee – BED PARTY: Eden Alexander and Sebastian Keys
“Alternative Site of the Year” 2016 XBiz Awards Winner – CrashPadSeries.com
“Alternative Site of the Year” 2015 XBiz Awards – CrashPadSeries.com
“Specialty Site of the Year” 2015 AVN Awards Nominated – CrashPadSeries.com
“Best Boygasm” 2014 Feminist Porn Awards – BED PARTY: Eden Alexander and Sebastian Keys
“Feminist Porn Release of the Year” 2014 XBIZ Awards – OCCUPIED: a queer hardcore romance for the 99%
“Specialty Site of the Year” 2014 XBIZ Awards – CrashPadSeries.com
“Specialty Site of the Year” 2014 XBIZ Nominated – PinkLabel.tv
CrashPadSeries.com – 2014 TEA Nominee “Best Sex Scene”
CrashPadSeries.com – 2011-2014 AVN Nominee “Best Alternative Site”
CrashPadSeries.com – 2012 Feminist Porn Awards BEST WEBSITE
HeavenlySpire.com – 2011 Feminist Porn Awards BEST WEBSITE
Crash Pad Series Volume 6 – Nominee 2011 Feminist Porn Awards
“Audience Choice Award” 2010 Feminist Porn Awards – Crash Pad Series Volume 5 (Shawn & Mickey Mod)
“Movie of the Year” 2009 Feminist Porn Awards – CHAMPION: Love Hurts
“Best Video Feature” Nomination 2010 AVN Awards – CHAMPION: Love Hurts
“Steamiest Trans Sex Scene” 2000 Feminist Porn Awards – Crash Pad Series Volume 2 (Julie & Michelle Aston)
“Best Dyke Sex Film” 2008 Feminist Porn Awards – Crash Pad Series Volume 1
“Best Trans Sex Scene” 2007 Feminist Porn Awards – The Wild Search (Papi Cox & Will Thrustwell)
“Best Dyke Sex Scene” 2007 Feminist Porn Awards – Superfreak (Lorelei Lee, Princess Donna & Dana Dearmond)
“Best Dyke Sex Scene” 2006 Feminist Porn Awards – The Crash Pad (Jiz Lee & Shawn)
Vixens + Visionaries Independent Porn Awards – “Best Dyke Sex Scene” The Crash Pad

PUBLICATIONS

The New York Times: Who Gets to be Sexy?
BITCH Magazine: “Shine Louise Houston’s Quest to Bring Porn to the Mainstream”
Sisters in the Life: A History of Out African American Lesbian Media-Making (Duke Press)
A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women in Pornography
Black Female Sexualities
Freeing Ourselves: A guide to Health and Self Love for Brown Bois
Porn After Porn “Mighty Real,” Shine Louise Houston, Sept 2014 (Reprinted with Permission in XBiz Fall 2014 Issue)
Porn for Pussies: Representations of Queer Female Sexuality in Shine Louise Houston’s Pornography Presented at National Women’s Studies Association, Denver, CO

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