Sex: The Annabel Chong Story
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Sex: The Annabel Chong Story is a 1999 American documentary film directed, filmed and produced by Canada-based producer Gough Lewis, edited by co-creator Kelly Morris, and produced by Peter Carr.
The film profiles pornographic film actor Grace Quek, a.k.a. Annabel Chong, then a gender studies student at the University of Southern California, famous for setting a gang bang record in January 1995. A video of the event was released under the title The World's Biggest Gang Bang.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
After release, Quek criticised Lewis for misconstruing multiple events and portraying events in a "misleading" way, such as claiming to have 'returned' to the industry after going to Singapore or the fact that producer Lewis self-harmed off-camera.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Synopsis
The documentary explores Quek's experiences, presenting her life as a student in Los Angeles, California and London; her native Singapore; and in the porn industry. It focuses on her reasons for working in porn, and her relationship with friends and family.<ref name="flickfilosopher.com">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The documentary reveals that Quek was gang raped as a student living in London and describes her many complex emotional issues, including signs of depression, self-harm<ref name="flickfilosopher.com"/> and substance abuse. The film also includes footage of a painful conversation in Singapore between Annabel and her mother, who, until then, didn't know about her daughter's porn career.<ref name="flickfilosopher.com"/>
Response
The documentary became a hit when it was released at the Sundance Film Festival, nominated for the Grand Jury Prize.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
North American distribution was halted or minimized as a result of a court case in the Superior Court of Canada, as instigated by David Whitten, a B-movie distributor.<ref>Moviemaker.com Straight From the Horse's Mouth: How To Avoid Distribution Hell by Keith Bearden Template:Webarchive</ref>
In The Guardian, Jonathan Romney (2000) wrote, "Quek's refusal to cohere as a subject is contingent on the fact that there's apparently no one looking at her: director Lewis is curiously absent, as either a character or as an invisible shaping intelligence. But he apparently was a character in her story: in interviews, Quek has denounced him for failing to reveal that he was her lover for a year during the making of Sex, something the film never even implies. That omission contributes to making the film incomplete, if not actually dishonest."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
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