XBIZ has received word that producer and director Scott Masters, a hugely influential figure in gay adult for more than four decades, passed late last year. He had been moved to an assisted-living facility in Bloomington, Illinois in the past year and in mid-autumn, a caregiver informed a family friend that Masters had recently died.
According to reports, pioneering filmmaker William Higgins passed Saturday from a sudden heart attack. The legendary gay adult director and producer, whose career stretched back to the early '70s, maintained a prolific work ethic; as recently as Friday, Higgins had updated his long-running video blog.
Channel 1 Releasing and Catalina Video today announced the debut of the first scene from the new bareback video “Pull Out,” directed by William Higgins.
Director William Higgins, a pioneer of gay erotica, has returned to Catalina Video, the company he founded in the late 1970s, and will direct new titles.
