SAN FRANCISCO — The award-winning team of director Jerry Douglas and videographer/editor Max Phillips has completed the final cut of COLT Studio’s latest release in the Buckshot line, titled “Brotherhood.”
Filmed last April during a seven-day production, the movie was shot at a location in the heart of San Francisco's Castro district in the home of three gay activists known in the gay community for their extensive charitable endeavors and fund-raisers; the building proved to be perfect for a fraternity house.
“It is a frat house movie,” COLT Marketing Director Kristofer Weston told XBIZ. Weston also was the production coordinator on the movie.
“It was fun. We actually found a house in the Castro that calls itself ‘The Gay Frat House,’ and they actually have parties and frat themes all the time,” Weston said.
“It was interesting because the whole premise of the movie takes place in one night of sex. So, there was dialogue — people entering and exiting while sex was going on, so that was challenging. I’d never shot a movie that way before. It was just one continuous sex thing.”
The lead role of “big man on campus” was played by Buckshot model Danny Roddick. Director Douglas described the role as "the biggest part I have ever written for an actor since I created the dual role of the twin brothers for Kurt Young in “Flesh and Blood.” Roddick was involved, to one degree or another, in every one of the film's six full sex scenes and was present for every day's filming.
“Danny Roddick had a lot of dialogue and he was amazing,” Weston said. “He did a really good job with it. The other really good performances, I think, were Jan Fisher — he had a lot of dialogue — and Dean Phoenix.”
Douglas, who has won numerous awards for his direction, is known for his big-budget productions with strong acting and storylines. Buckshot Productions’ “Buckleroos 1 & 2,” co-directed by Douglas with COLT owner John Rutherford, swept the 2005 GAYVN Awards.
“He really knows how to pull acting out of actors,” Weston said. “He gets the dialogue right. Jerry really makes them feel comfortable and knows how to get a great performance out of them. It’s very believable and the storyline brings you into it — you want to see what’s happening.”
Overall, according to Weston, the Buckshot line has been very successful for the studio.
“It’s more of an all-natural man line; more masculine and it encompasses all kinds of bodies, not just the big muscle guys that we generally have in the COLT Line, so the age range fluctuates from older and the body types fluctuate a lot also. And the Buckshot line is more storyline-based and playing out the fantasies,” Weston said.
“Brotherhood” hits the streets on Aug 15, featuring Danny Roddick, Dean Phoenix, Jan Fischer, Kevin Armstrong, Sebastian Rivers, Trey Casteel, Tory Mason and a host of exciting newcomers including Justin Burkshire, Jorden Michaels, Dallas Reeves and Kurt Wild.
