20 AVN Nominations For Orona/Stevens Productions

LAS VEGAS, NV – Orona/Stevens Productions, headed by acclaimed Director Gary Orona and AVN Hall of Fame star Tabitha Stevens were honored with a total of 20 AVN nominations for work in three of their 2011 titles, produced in conjunction with Zero Tolerance.

The Official Basic Instinct Parody, The Official Psycho Parody and ‘The Official Silence of the Lambs Parody picked up nominations in multiple categories for Writing, Directing and Technical achievements in addition to Acting nods to four performers.

Wow, this is great! enthused Orona. We’re very honored by the accolades for these projects and give much of the credit to my crew and the actors who gave each project 150%, in addition to Zero Tolerance Entertainment who let us create our vision. Stevens continues, We were very specific about every detail from storyline to post-production work and the nominations reaffirm what we always believed: There is a market for high quality adult entertainment.

Gary Orona is nominated in the Best Director, Parody category with a nod as Director of the Year for his Body of Work as well as recognition for his editing, cinematography and screenplays.

The full list of Orona/Stevens Productions 2012 AVN nominations:

Best Parody, Drama – The Official Basic Instinct Parody and The Official Psycho Parody

Best Parody, Comedy – ‘The Official Silence of the Lambs Parody

Best Screenplay, Parody  Gary Orona for The Official Psycho Parody and ‘The Official Silence of the Lambs Parody

Best Art Direction – Gary Orona for The Official Psycho Parody and ‘The Official Silence of the Lambs Parody

Best Cinematography: Gary Orona for The Official Silence of the Lambs Parody

Best DVD Extras – The Official Psycho Parody

Best Editing  Gary Orona for The Official Psycho Parody

Best Makeup  Lori Elle for The Official Psycho Parody

Best Packaging  The Official Psycho Parody

Best Actor  Ben English for ‘The Official Silence of the Lambs Parody and Ryan McLane for The Official Psycho Parody

Best Actress  Kagney Linn Karter for ‘The Official Silence of the Lambs Parody

Best Supporting Actor  Mark Wood for ‘The Official Silence of the Lambs Parody

Best Supporting Actress  Sarah Vandella for The Official Psycho Parody

Best Director, Parody  Gary Orona for ‘The Official Silence of the Lambs Parody

Director of the Year (Body of Work) “ Gary Orona

Most Outrageous Sex Scene – ‘The Official Silence of the Lambs Parody Riley Evans & Mark Wood in It Takes the Dildo in Its Hooh

The 29^th annual AVN Award Show will be held Saturday, January 21, 2011 at The Joint inside the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada. For more information visit www.AVNAwards.com.

Orona/Stevens latest production with Zero Tolerance Entertainment, The Official Scarface Parody will include Tabitha Steven’s last starring role on screen, all future appearances will be on her web site www.tabithastevens.com and you can follow her on Twitter @MissTabithaStevens.  For more information on Gary Orona, visit www.garyorona.com.

Please direct all media inquires for Gary Orona and Tabitha Stevens to Lisa Massaro, Lisa@emmmedia.com.

About Orona/Stevens:

Gary Orona:

Gary Orona has created, produced and directed sixty-five (65) TV  Episodes for HBO/Cinemax, 15 feature length films for  HBO/Cinemax, 4 mainstream independent feature films including

the New York International Film Festival/LA Film Festival “BestPicture” “Trance”, over 200 “special event shows” for Directv, Pay TV, Pay Cable, and Home Video/DVD Worldwide, over 100 music videosfor EMI Records, Tokyo, Japan, TV Pilots for Fox TV and other  national networks, and as a photographer has been published in more than 20 major periodicals and print media.

Widely regarded as the master of exotica television, Gary Orona’s  talent, innovations and extraordinary production values in exotic  locations utilizing state-of-the-art techniques in the exotica genre  is unmatched. His perfect track record with HBO, DirecTV andnumerous International venues including HBO Latin, Showtime  Australia, Kappa Entertainment Japan, Kaleidoscope Canada and  many others is legendary.  Gary currently splits his time between Califronia, Nevada, Colorado

and New York City. Gary’s West Coast production arsenal includes; complete grip and lighting, Arri BL IV 35mm motion picture camerasystem, Sony HD camera systems, various dolly and jib arm systems, FCP editing workstations, and Canon, Leica, Mamiya and Toyo still  photography systems.

 

TABITHA STEVENS

Celebrity Tabitha Stevens is widely known as legendary in the adult film industry. Tabitha is an AVN Hall-of- Famer and veteran of hundreds of adult movies as well as a mainstream cross-over star with countless movies, TV appearances and special event appearances. Also known as the Craziest Sex Symbol On Earth, Tabitha Stevens was recently saluted by the King of all Media, Howard Stern for her numerous contributions as Special Guest for the show. Tabitha has appeared on the Howard Stern show over 27 times including the E Channel (E Entertainment). Howard Stern has called Tabitha Stevens a true superhero on air and ultra-critic, Simon Cowell, gave Tabitha a 9.5 while on the show.

“SANATORIUM” and “THE VAMPIRE SEX DIARIES” both feature films produced by and starring Tabitha Stevens have been nominated for a total of 17 AVN Awards for 2011. Tabitha is rapidly rising in the ranks of adult feature film production as a true super-producer as well as legendary performer.

Tabitha’s first Interactive POV DVD, Total Interactive Control of Tabitha Stevens (Third Degree Films) was nominated for Best Interactive DVD at the 2010 AVN Awards. Tabitha has also appeared in 5 seasons of Dr. 90210 as the only reoccurring celebrity guest, a two time guest on the Tyra Banks show, a skit on the E Channel’s Talk Soup, with Hal Sparks, Howard Sterns initials were tattooed on her ankle on Carey Harts Inked on A&E, Hosted the Exotic Erotic Ball in San Francisco for three years, and appeared in numerous movies for HBO/Cinemax including Denial (Kushner & Locke), Shade starring Sylvester Stallone, Melanie Griffith, Jamie Foxx and Gabriel Byrne, The LA Riot Spectacular, with Emilio Estevez, George Hamilton, Charles Dutton, William Forsythe and Snoop Dogg, The Curse of El Charro as well as numerous others. Tabitha produced 13 episodes of the hit HBO/Cinemax series ‘The Erotic Traveler’ (2004), produced numerous late night shows for ‘In Demand’, produced a family Television pilot for Freemantle Canada (2009) titled ‘Canyon Rangers’ starring Hall Of Fame football Legend and actor Fred ‘The Hammer’ Williamson.

She has a Huge following on the web. In 2010 Tabitha appeared and was interviewed on The Discovery Channel’s ‘Flipped, a Mobster Tells All, the Kenji Gallo Story’ (her ex~husband). In October of 2011 it has been green lit for Tabitha to shoot her own episode of the Hit Series on DiscoveryID ‘I Married a Mobster’. Shooting to begin before 2012. Tabitha can be currently heard on the Howard Stern 100 News at least once a month for updates on her wild and crazy life.

She also hosted Can You Be a Porn Star for On Demand Pay-Per-View, featured in an interview with Rita Crosby for FOX News, and has been seen on Access Hollywood and Entertainment Tonight and written up in the New York Post and the LA Times. Tabitha also performed with Kid Rock in the 2002 American Music Awards, appeared on The Jay Leno Show on Street Jams (2002), was in a feature story on plastic surgery on Entertainment Tonight (2002), in a feature story on the Adult Video Business on Entertainment Tonight (2000), and appeared on The Surreal Life with Ron Jeremy as a special guest, and was heavily featured throughout his documentary entitled, Ron Jeremy- Porn Legend as well as written about in Ron’s autobiography. Tabitha has also appeared on rock super star Dave Navarro’s internet radio show Spread Live. Dave has also given Tabitha’s name a mention during his interview on the E! Channels new hit show The Chelsea Lately Show. Tabitha is married to Award Winning Filmmaker and HBO certified producer and director, Gary Orona.