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From Stockbroker to 🌽  Director_ Jim Powers’ Unexpected Origin Story  #JimPowers

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00:00We're going to start from the beginning.

00:01We're going to start your origin story.

00:04Because you had a very unique path to the adult industry.

00:07So how did you end up as a director?

00:09Well, it was accidental.

00:10I never planned to be, I knew nothing about cameras, anything.

00:12I feel like that's like everybody's story.

00:14Yeah, I was, it's just a stockbroker minding my own business.

00:19You were a stockbroker.

00:19I was a stockbroker.

00:21You know, firms were going under.

00:22It was a long-winded story.

00:24Long story short, I ended up in Florida.

00:26We raised money to make this kickboxing thing this guy's going to do.

00:28My partner's like, whoa, we can't be involved with this guy.

00:31He used to do porn.

00:32I'm like, whoa, no way.

00:33That's the mafia.

00:34Can't go near there.

00:35This was 1990.

00:36Right.

00:37And anyway, I ended up getting in porn.

00:40Long story short, because I meet Buck Adams.

00:41And he's like, Jim, you should be producing movies.

00:43The distributorship goes to hell.

00:46And Buck's like, Jim, let's go back to California and make porn.

00:48You're from California.

00:49So we come back here.

00:51That's how I got going with porn.

00:52Buck Adams, I was his producer.

00:54Wow.

00:54Remember Buck?

00:55And that first movie I did was that Speed Trap.

00:57Old movie.

00:58It's the one that, for years, they ran on the Spice Channel or one of those stations

01:03with the Ferrari racing the Porsche in the rain or whatever.

01:06That was the movie I did.

01:08Wow.

01:08Buck directed.

01:09I do a cameo as a drug dealer in it.

01:12So I was in my 20s when I started in porn.

01:15And then how to become a director is, second time I made a movie is like a year later,

01:20because I didn't want anything to do with porn, because really I made no money off the first

01:23one.

01:24And I go, a friend of mine from a rock band is like, Jim, why don't we make a porn?

01:28We'll go in half.

01:29It's like, whatever.

01:29I'll do it again.

01:30And one of the guys from the rock bands was on acid the morning of the shoot.

01:35And I get up there and I go, okay, what's the plan?

01:37Because I'm the producer.

01:38And he was laying, rolling around on the ground, staring at a cigarette.

01:41And I felt, you know, somebody has to step up here.

01:44And I had the porn experience.

01:47And we had a cameraman, my buddy flew out to shoot for free, you know, who was a videographer,

01:52but knew nothing about porn.

01:53Yeah.

01:53So I became the director by default.

01:56Wow.

01:56And that's how I started directing porn.

01:59I had the same sort of story why I started shooting the cameraman porn.

02:02Yeah.

02:03It was the same type of thing.

02:04You showed up and like the cameraman was just on drugs and couldn't do it?

02:08Long story short, your past, we had this movie we made.

02:12I sell it.

02:13But do you remember Dave Kravis, Coastline?

02:16He hooks me up with Midnight Video.

02:18I remember Coastline.

02:19Can you remember Midnight Video?

02:20Okay.

02:20Yes, I think so.

02:21They used to do all the parody movies in the early 90s.

02:23Okay.

02:24So Beach Bum Amateurs.

02:27Okay.

02:27So I go over there to sell him the movie.

02:30He hooks up the deal.

02:30So I deliver the movie.

02:32And Kevin Beach on the set, what really got me going, says,

02:35hey, do you want to shoot some amateurs for me?

02:38And I said, I don't know how to shoot.

02:41What do you mean?

02:42I don't know.

02:42I've never picked up a camera in my life.

02:43What do you mean?

02:44Where am I going to get these people?

02:45He goes, they're amateurs.

02:46You just walk on the street and you ask people.

02:48I go, really?

02:49How much are you going to give me?

02:50Some ridiculous small amount of money.

02:54Sold.

02:55And I'm like, hmm.

02:57Approach strangers.

02:58No money.

02:59Yes.

03:00So that's why I feel we can get them for free.

03:01I go, hmm, I needed some money.

03:03And David Lorde was my production manager.

03:08This is how we met.

03:09Oh, wow.

03:10So David Lorde, didn't know him, it wasn't David Lorde yet.

03:13He was a salesman for Zane.

03:15Okay.

03:15I'd hooked a buddy up from another punk band, because I was associated with punk bands.

03:20He got a job doing sales as Zane.

03:23Uh-huh.

03:24He goes, Jim, there's a guy over here who could be your, you know, could help you find

03:28these amateurs if you want to do it.

03:29So I go over there and David said, yeah, we can, you know, I know all these people,

03:34which ended up just being porn actors, but I thought they were, and we'd have to pay

03:37them a small amount.

03:38Uh-huh.

03:38And I figured, well, it's a beach bomb amateurs.

03:40We got to go to the beach to shoot this.

03:42You know, you have to do it right, I figured.

03:44I didn't know about these rules.

03:45You can't shoot on beaches and stuff.

03:47And so I go down and shoot this thing and then people start filling it up, filling up the beach.

03:53And then we've got one sex scene down in the middle of another one.

03:55And people are starting to look at us.

03:56I go, you should get out of here.

03:57They're starting to fill up.

03:59Yeah.

03:59So we go to this one guy's house.

04:00We shoot the rest of the movie.

04:01So wait, hold on.

04:02You shoot a sex scene on the beach?

04:04Yeah, yeah.

04:04People are just walking around.

04:05I didn't think-

04:05And you didn't think that that was a problem?

04:07No.

04:08I mean, why?

04:09Because you can't have a sex in public.

04:11Well, I didn't realize that at the time, okay?

04:14I was not some film student or something.

04:17You don't need to be a film student to know that.

04:20But anyway, innocently minding my own business, I'm filming porn, right?

04:24So I, it was Rick Masters who did the fucking.

04:26It was 1992.

04:28Okay.

04:28So we finished the movie somewhere in the Hollywood Hills at, he's dead now, so I can say the name,

04:33Dale Davis, the famous old surfing director from the 60s.

04:36Okay.

04:36If you look him up, he did all Jan and Dean, all that type of stuff.

04:39Okay.

04:39So we shot at his place.

04:40So, but if I paid everybody, I actually lost money.

04:45I go, this is not a good thing.

04:47Three things in a row I'd lost money on.

04:48I'm done with this porn.

04:50I'm not going to try to be a porn guy anymore.

04:52And I'm shooting camera too.

04:53That was another thing.

04:54I was shooting the video camera.

04:56I didn't know how to do it.

04:56So I had this video camera.

04:59So I drop it off at Kevin's and he holds up, right back in the days of the Chromes, he holds them up and he goes, I need you to shoot.

05:07And he saw, you're on the beach filming?

05:09And I go, yeah.

05:10He goes, shoot me more now, immediately.

05:12And I'm like, no, I don't want to.

05:13He's like, why?

05:14He goes, I lost money.

05:15He starts whipping me off $100 bills.

05:17He goes, here, now you made some money.

05:19Make me more.

05:21Okay.

05:22Sounds easy enough.

05:23So I go back to the beach and, you know, and David Lord says, you know, the cops and everything are up top, you know, coming.

05:29I go, so what?

05:29We got to finish the scene.

05:31All the cops are coming down to get us.

05:32David Lord's going to swim into the ocean, escape.

05:35I kept on shooting.

05:36We, we, we.

05:37And they arrested me.

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