Made in Secret: The Story of the East Van Porn Collective

We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
—Gandhi

“Made in Secret is a pure labour of love, made over the course of three years by a group of friends who wanted to see a documentary made about our local anarcho-feminist porn collective. The only problem was, that collective didn’t exist. And so, in a postmodern twist that Gandhi may never have foreseen, we became the anarcho-feminist porn collective that we so dearly wished to see in the world, simply in order to make a film about it.
So is the resulting film a documentary? Or a drama? We honestly don’t know. We have wracked our collective brain for months trying to find a term that accurately places the movie within the documentary/drama dichotomy, but have finally come to the conclusion that Made in Secret must exist outside of that framework. It isn’t fact. It isn’t fiction. It isn’t even the typically Canadian “somewhere in between.”
It’s something else altogether.

And if we could ask one thing of you as you watch our little movie, it would be that you try to create a new category for it in your mind. Or better yet, a non-category. An amorphous, permeable space for other ways of being and seeing and knowing.”
- The East Van Porn Collective-

“This enthralling movie is something of a minor miracle, tackling some very weighty subjects with an ease and humor that belies the importance of its concerns. It’s an unparalleled depiction of a collective at work; a vehicle for airing issues about sex and porn and representation and body image and consumption and filmmaking; and an inspiring portrait of a really smart, lovely, unlikely group of people pushing themselves way out into the unknown. And it just might start a little revolution: May a thousand porn collectives bloom!”
—Tod Booth, SF Indie Fest

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