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Anna Arrowsmith (born 1972), who works under the pseudonym Anna Span, is a British pornographic film director. She was Britain's first female porn film director in 1997. She is also a public speaker on sex, pornography, and feminism
She was born and raised in Kent, the daughter of finance director Clive Thompson. She is a graduate of the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in Fine Art (Film & Video). Her films are female-friendly based on her ideas first outlined in her 1997 dissertation 'Towards a New Pornography
She had her first film aired in 1999 on UK porn channel Television X and has made over 250 scenes to date.[4] Although some women have directed scenes of sexual education for such films as The Lovers' Guide, and American women such as Candida Royalle started filming porn in the 80's, Arrowsmith was the first woman to direct films in the UK with a clear pornographic intent.
Her films focus on women enjoying sex including lesbian sex and heterosexual sex, with some bisexual sex. Other themes include sex toys, everyday objects (such as a chocolate bar or orange) being used as sex aids, threesomes, group sex and gang bangs. Role playing and fantasy are also common. Sometimes a character from one of her films appears in another. There is a big emphasis on reality both in script and actor performances. In her films she includes a much higher than average percentage of shots which look at the men, which she has termed 'female point of view' shots.
Arrowsmith was the 2007/8 and 2008/9 Best Director at the UK Adult Film & TV Awards, where she also won four other awards for her DVD "Hug a Hoodie". She won Best British Film Brand at The UK's trade awards - the ETO Awards in 2008. In 2007 she won 'Indie Porn Pioneer' at The International Emma Feminist Porn Awards, in Toronto. Her film Be My Toy Boy is nominated for best Film at the 2009 ETO Awards.
Since 1998 she has run her own production company, Easy on the Eye productions, which also releases work of other female porn directors that she has trained. These films are being released under the brand 'Women Love Porn' in August 2009. She is the author of Erotic Home Video now called Shoot your Own Adult Home Movies, a manual on how to shoot one's own home porn films which has sold around 23,000 copies to date.[citation needed]
Since June 2009 she has run a sex toy website (www.annaspansextoys.com) in which each sex toy has its own 'fake DIY infomercial' made for it.
In September 2007, she was the focus of a TV documentary entitled "Sex Films For Girls", made by Five, which captured her views on pornography and her film approach and featured on-set filming during the making of a film. Her father also appeared in the documentary, expressing a negative view of pornography but a very supportive view of his daughter.
She identifies sexually as bisexual.] and has said, "I'm bi and looking at two women together turns me on."[6]
She has given talks about pornography and feminism in various countries, for example at universities or film festivals. She has been a regular columnist of The Daily Sport newspaper and the British women's sex magazine Scarlet. She has been an active member of Feminists Against Censorship since the late 90s.
In September 2009 Arrowsmith won a battle against the British Board of Film Classification. The DVD Women Love Porn was passed with a scene which clearly shows female ejaculation, when previous submissions failed to be passed uncut. She argued that the view the BBFC held - that the liquid was urine and therefore the film fell foul of the Obscene Publications Act - was untrue and sexist, as male ejaculate is allowed at R18 certificate. The film passed uncut when the BBFC took legal advice in the face of scientific evidence that the model ejaculated. Since this release, the OPA is now used differently with respect to female ejaculation.
Arrowsmith was the Liberal Democrat candidate for Gravesham in Kent for the 2010 general election.Conservative Adam Holloway held on to the seat by a considerable margin, and Arrowsmith finished in third place behind Labour .
She explained her move into politics in The Observer Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg said Arrowsmith's previous profession was "not exactly my cup of tea", and she was certainly no "cardboard cut-out Westminster politician". He said it was important that "people like her" who care about their local areas put themselves forward.
Arrowsmith lives with her husband in Groombridge near Tunbridge Wells.
