ROUGH/TENDER - HD-upscaled

 ROUGH/TENDER. Jrl Award winner, GayVN and Xbiz Award nominated. Now HD-upscaled, exclusively at LucasKazan. Download it today.

Meet the cast of ROUGH/TENDER: Alex and Federico

We continue to feature the amazing cast of ROUGH/TENDER  on DVD. Yours, 100% FREE, when you join LucasKazan before August 31st. Alex Magnum and Federico D'Angelo are both Italian and their HOT scene  will remind you why Italians do it better...

ROUGH/TENDER on DVD: FREE this August

Join us at LucasKazan this August, get ROUGH/TENDER on DVD for FREE. "Filled with beautiful men who give more than good face", writes XXFactor. "They give machismo, passion and sensual performances that are of the highest caliber (...) It’s a film where the models are a perfect mix of rough and tender, yet never break their chemistry or that rush of heated passion" . JRL Award Winner for Best Latin Top (Jean Franko) and Best Bottom (Philippe Delvaux)

Your FREE DVD

Join us at LucasKazan , we'll mail you ROUGH/TENDER on DVD completely free. It's our way to welcome you to all things LucasKazan: more Italians, more muscles, more fun.

Porn: Q&A in Milan

An evening at the Circolo Harvey Milk in Milan/Italy. With an attentive crowd and engaging topics. Amongst them, two got my attention the most:

1. The dynamic between what the market offers today and what (most) customers demand. All too often I'm asked about plot-driven porn and production values. While I obviously care for both and both attracted me to porn some 20 years ago (let's call it "auteur porn". Porn as poetics, as Weltanshauung...), I ultimately run a business with a balance sheet. I stopped directing my 'big-budget' features back in 2008 (ITALIANS AND OTHER STRANGERS, GayVN Award Winner for Best Foreign Pcture), came back briefly with ROUGH/TENDER in 2010 and have left my assistants run the show since, with the cheaper 'reality' content and the hydraulics customers ask for these days.

2. Same goes with bareback content. While I'm committed to safer sex guidelines (a matter of personal responsibility for me and my label), I can't pass judgement on my fellow producers keeping an eye on their bottom line and giving customers what they want. Can we effectively sell condom titles, when bareback vids, no matter how poorly produced, far outsell anything 'mainstream'?

Ultimately, yes, I'm disappointed with gay audiences. Who favor unsafe sex, neglect eroticism, ignore production values and flock to gimmicky and often offensive gay-for-pay properties (Brokestraightboys, HazeHim and the like...).  I'm equally disappointed with the majority of wall to wall sex porn produced these days.

Yet I remain optimistic: audiences will eventually wake up and smell the coffee.  They'll grow tired of this pseudo reality diet, its poor gimmicks and its aesthetic indifference. They will begin looking for something... MORE. And that is, my friends, what keeps me going: What will that MORE be? How will gay porn of the future look like

An interview with Federico D'Angelo

What does it take to become a LucasKazan man? What motivated young Federico? What about his expectations?

Sky/CurrentTV on the set of "Rough/Tender"

A juicy clip from the docu CurrentTV aired in February 2010. Kudos to filmmakers Alberto d'Onofrio and Alessandra Ugolini for taking a non-judgmental approach and portraying the porn set for what it is. Not a fantasy, not a stereotype...  Don't miss the interviews with Alex Magnum, Federico d' Angelo, Ettore Tosi, Jean Franko, Jordan Fox and prod. assistant extraordinaire Alez.

XBiz Award Nominations

"Rough/Tender" was nominated for Gay Movie of the Year, Lucas Kazan for Best Gay Director. I seldom take home the trophies, but it's encouraging to be acknowledged. All the more on Xmas day. Happy holidays :-)

Rough/Tender on VOD

Rough/Tender's last episode debuts today on VOD. Don't miss Jean Franko (winner of the Jrl Gay Film Award for Best Latin Top Performer) in a rare, yet impressive role as a power bottom. Hung Jordan Fox does the drilling. Whom do you envy the most?

Rough/Tender on VOD

Rough/Tender continues its journey on VOD. One episode at a time. You can't miss Jean Franko and Philippe Delvaux in scene 1. Both winners of the JRL Gay Film Award for Best Latin Top and Best Latin Bottom (respectively)

Rough/Tender on VOD

GayVN Award nominated "Rough/Tender" debuts today on VOD. A new episode every Saturday throughout September. "A refreshing alternative on the gay porn landscape", writes XBiz Premiere. "Gorgeous shots of Italy and nice uses of color, mixing romance with aggression (...) and some of the hottest men"."

Rough/Tender

Rough/Tender is (finally) out on DVD. My first directing credit after a long hiatus (one year and a half, in fact). There's no question in my mind that the DVD market is at death's door. Question is: how long will it stay alive? Likewise, I have no doubt that production values will be back in fashion --eventually. In the early 2000s, amateur porn felt fresh, different, more attuned to the web 'revolution'. A new generation of consumers was brainwashed into equating amateur sex with 'real' sex. Big mistake: because 'amateur' sex is often no less staged and choreographed than the old studios'. Just poorly lit, --for the most part-- conceived, blocked, edited...

Sneak peek: Rough/Tender

A sneak peek at "Rough/Tender", coming out on dvd next month. On the cover, Alex Magnum (Italian), Jean Franko (Venezuelan) and Jordan Fox (French). All making me feel the "United Nations" of gay porn