Twenty years ago, as an artist living in Oakland, California confronting the lack of high quality representation of diverse bodies, genders, and sexualities in adult film, Shine Louise Houston founded Pink and White Productions, an acclaimed independent queer and feminist adult film company that centers queer and trans people and people of color.  In 2012 the company branched out to provide an online distribution channel, Pink Label TV, that hosts and acts as an archive of independent adult films made by other marginalized filmmakers whose works expand representation in adult film. In 2020 Pink and White launched Blush, an annual film festival in San Francisco, to bring more attention to the art of erotic representation and the importance of visual and filmic depictions of underrepresented and sometimes vilified groups.

All of Shine’s work has been an attempt to create more space for my community, offer more accurate and respectful representations, and contribute to the recognition, acceptance, and empowerment that comes from being in community, even when it happens via a screen.

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