A True Story of
America’s Oldest Independent Filmmakers
Imagine spending a day with two of your favorite grandfathers who, in their day, happened to be America’s leading producers of adult films. The hilarious tales these rascals tell are true and backed-up with jaw-dropping film clips from dozens of their movies.
“MAU MAU SEX SEX” features Dan Sonney and David Friedman, Independent Cinema’s original outlaws, and who the New York Times affectionately calls “the Sunshine Boys of Smut.” Take a scintillating sojourn through a century of cinematic sex, and an hilarious and unexpectedly poignant look at the friendship, families, and fortunes of two men who catered to a repressed society’s forbidden desires.
“MAU MAU SEX SEX” played in theaters worldwide including New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, San Jose, Salt Lake City, Cleveland, Portland, OR, Providence, RI, Austin, Texas, across Canada, Europe, and Australia. “MAU MAU SEX SEX” enjoyed international premieres in competition at the prestigious International Documentary Festival- Amsterdam, The Santa Barbara International Film Festival and Melbourne International Film Festival. Running time: 80 Minutes.
Synopsis
MAU MAU SEX SEX profiles America’s two legendary salesmen of cinematic sex, Dan Sonney, 84, and David Friedman, 76, who had a bigger impact on the culture’s concept of sexuality than Masters and Johnson. Since the 1940s they produced an avalanche of “Adults Only” product for generations of insatiably curious moviegoers.
Here is a thought-provoking and laugh-inducing look at a hugely profitable, but morally marginalized, slice of the “sexploitation” business. It’s more than a sociology lesson. The movie challenges pre-conceived notions as it examines the family lives of two distinctive characters: Friedman, a “carny” from Alabama who dropped a Paramount paycheck to pursue his renegade career, and Sonney, the other half of the notorious twosome. Sonney, the son of a frontier lawman became the nation’s leading purveyor of cinema sleaze – while raising four daughters in the Catholic Church. Championed by free-speech advocates and vilified by self-appointed moral watchdogs, the pair has enjoyed a long association and remarkable friendship, which they discuss with eye-opening candor and hilarious good humor. In MAU MAU SEX SEX, you’ll learn who has the last laugh.
The movie combines extensive film clips from 60 years of “sexploitation” to present a kaleidoscopic take on a loopy, sex-mad society – and two cagey operators who knew how to exploit it.