'By contrast, I think there are very, very few women doing porn films for fun.' 'We found that gay actors do it more for the adventure or to do something really wild, because it's ridiculous how little they get paid,' said Hick. Hick said he was hopeful that Cycles of Porn, a follow-up project to his heralded 1997 documentary Sex/Life in L.A., which had a 15-fold return on its $30,000 budget, would find even more buyers, including television networks in Europe. It tracks a group of young gay actors hoping for stardom in their industry who live together in an apartment filled with omnipresent Web cameras, contrasting their wide-eyed ambitions with the lives of three men now retired from making porn films. Part 2 by German filmmaker Jochen Hick takes its audience on a riveting journey into the world of low-budget sex films. One of many films at this year's Berlinale examining sex and pornography, Cycles of Porn-Sex/Life in L.A. A documentary about the lives of aging porn actors that throws a harrowing spotlight on the gay film industry in Los Angeles opened the Panorama section of the Berlin Film Festival on Friday to an enthusiastic reception.
