“This business was created by girls, so everything that happens there is the result of our decisions,” says Vital. She says her answer was with the type of company she established, which she calls a cooperative in which the women have a say in the decision-making process.
Like many others in the field, she’s had to grapple with the question of exploitation. She has made about 110 films over the years. Mor Vital is a female director-producer of porn films that feature transgender women (who generally have sex with men).
To this day, I think of myself as a survivor.”Īlthough most gay porn in Israel is made by men, not all of it is. I stayed with a friend for a month, and I just moved around like some kind of survivor. “My family didn’t really accept it, especially my father,” he says, adding that one day he just left home for Tel Aviv, “without telling anyone, without anything. He came out of the closet at 17 and recalls that it was a very difficult time. Koren grew up in the northern town of Ma’alot-Tarshiha. Her films generally feature transgender women. On the set of a film by female filmmaker Mor Vital.
