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Rated X - A Journey Through Porn

Dag Yngvesson

USA1999 115min Digi-Beta Color

Synopsis

This industry, the pornograghy business, now generates more than 8 billion dollars a year in revenues, and has drawn in major outside companies from all over the world. At the center of this controversial new entity is the X-rated film industry, until recently an illicit venture run by the Mafia, which now puts out 50 feature length videos every week to a seemingly insatiable market that rents 500 million of them annually. Taking advantage of his roximity to the San Fernando Valley, filmmaker/anthropologist Dag Yngvesson set out to document the workings of Hollywood's protific evil twin.

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Dag Yngvesson

Dag Yngvesson lives in Los Angeles and works in various fringes of the movie industry. He studied film and anthropology at Pitzer College, in Claremont, CA. Dag's greatest pasion lies in documentary filmmaking. He is currenytly working with Dr. Robert Lemelson(UCLA) on an ethnographic film dealing with mental illness in Bali.