MAU MAU SEX SEX is a rambunctious ride through several decades of America's peculiar history of cinematic sexuality, in which the culture's repressed desires were shunted into the margins of show business. The movie simultaneously offers a poignant look at two old friends reflecting on their lives, families, and careers in the confines of a business deemed wholly unacceptable by the mainstream. In MAU MAU SEX SEX, you'll learn who has the last laugh. MAU MAU SEX SEX, produced by 7th Planet Productions was shot entirely on digital video and makes extensive use of film clips from 60 years of "sexploitation." The 80-minute feature movie, completed in April, 2001, offers an inside look at the professional and personal partnership of Dan Sonney, 84, and David F. Friedman, 76, once the world's most prodigious purveyors of cinematic prurience. MAU MAU SEX SEX premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2001 and at Hollywood's American Cinematheque at the famous Egyptian Theater. It opened theatrically at New York's Cinema Village on April 6th, 2001, and is now playing in theaters nationwide. See the "Now Playing" page on this website for schedules and information. Prudes and critics railed, while Friedman and Sonney laughed all the way to the bank. THAR SHE BLOWS was a prime example of the pair's late 60's product, a pseudo-lavish, completely tongue-in-cheek send-up of Hollywood movies, with plenty of sex splashed around. BACKGROUND- Dan Sonney's father, Louis, was a lawman legendary for his single-handed capture of notorious outlaw Roy Gardner in 1919. The savvy Sonney used his new found notoriety to enter show business, traveling around the country, exhibiting a filmed reenactment of his exploits. When the "Crime Does not Pay" shtick wore thin, Sonney turned his expertise in exploitation to something even more sensational - sex. During an era in which Hollywood white washed any hint of the lurid or salacious, Sonney Amusement Enterprises offered a ravenous public such side-street movie fare as "Girls of the Street," "Wages of Sin," and "Gambling with Souls." Pictures that preached against sin and degradation - while depicting it in all its sordid splendor. The first of what became known to the trade as "roughies," THE DEFILERS was an unnerving film about two affluent degenerates who kidnap and torture an innocent young woman. Along with Friedman's BLOOD FEAST, it ushered in a new era of depravity in grindhouses. Dan Sonney would take the reins from his father and become the most successful producer and distributor of Adults Only movies in America. In the early Sixties he formed a partnership with Dave Friedman, a former Paramount Pictures publicist who'd abandoned the sanctuary of the studio for the freewheeling life of an independent producer. With partner Herschell Gordon Lewis, Friedman filled the screens of America's grindhouses with such edifying examples of exploitation as "Daughters of the Sun," "The Adventures of Lucky Pierre," and their most infamous concoction, "Blood Feast," the original splatter film. Once Sonney and Friedman teamed up, they produced a veritable cavalcade of concupiscence, with titles such as "The Defilers," "A Smell of Honey A Swallow of Brine," "Starlet," "The Headmistress," Thar She Blows," "Space Thing," and the "Notorious Daughter of Fanny Hill."