Roy Karch HasOwn Imprint

Roy Karch Riffs on Favorite Film with Hardcore Homage; First Title to be Under the Roy Karch Productions Imprint

LOS ANGELES ‹ Roy Karch, award winning director, as well as AVN and X-RatedCritics Organization Hall of Famer, kicks off the New Year with hisproduction of Inserts, his take on the mainstream title of the same name.
Karch's Inserts will be the first feature to be released under his ownimprint, Roy Karch Productions, to the particular note and pride of the37-year adult industry vet. The script, written over a three month period byKarch, and pre-production are complete. The director looks forward to doingsome of the casting during the 2007 AVN Adult Entertainment Expo in LasVegas. Principal photography is set to begin late January in Los Angeles.
"Inserts, the 1974 mainstream release, has always been a favorite movie ofmine. Mark Kernes' recent review of the classic on AVN.com is a happycoincidence, in that my riff on the movie was all set to be cast," Karchsaid.
Karch, the first director to have shot XXX on videotape in 1974, before theindustry began its late '70s transition from film, feels the storyline ofInserts is ready to be well received by today's more discerning adultaudience. The mainstream movie featuring Richard Dreyfuss as an alcoholicHollywood director-turned-pornographer in pre-World War II Los Angeles isperfect for the direction our industry has come to embrace.
"I've been keeping this one in the wings waiting for the right moment. Theright moment is here now," Karch said.
"In this New Year, I'll be offering movies under my own production company'slabel, Roy Karch Productions. Inserts is a gritty movie, something that's abreak from the type of features I've been directing and will be reflectiveof the sort of drama and storytelling that I'm going to bring to the featuremarket. This and other movies Roy Karch Productions will produce will beexcellent vehicles for performers in the industry who want to expand theirhorizons and do some real character acting," Karch said.
Karch recollected bumping into Dreyfuss at a gas station on Sunset whenKarch first moved to Hollywood in 1977 and telling him Inserts, not Jaws,Close Encounters of the Third Kind, or The Goodbye Girl was the Oscar-awardwinning actor's best role.
"Richard was pleasantly surprised," Karch noted.
"It's 30-plus years later and I couldn't imagine a better way to begin thenext chapter of Roy Karch Productions than to make this movie," he said.