Shine Louise Houston

Shine Louise Houston's films have screened at film festivals around the world. Houston speaks widely on issues of representation and sexual freedom of expression. She is heavily involved with the feminist and queer art community as well as doing sexual health work and sex worker activism. In her work, Houston features a diverse range of ethnicities, body types, non-conforming genders, and sexual identitiesHouston has been written about widely in numerous publications on the intersections of race, pornography, and desire. Ariane Cruz, a professor of women's studies at Penn State, writes in her book, The Color of Kink,

[Houston's] films showcase stunning cinematography, inventive narratives, and incredibly diverse performers with respect to race, gender, and body. Houston's work critically queers representations of black [women's] sexual desire, offering modes of pleasure outside hegemonic, heteronormative representations of black female sexuality in pornography.

Houston's work counters inauthentic representations of women, trans, gender nonconforming, and queer folks of color's sexuality and desire in mainstream porn. Houston incorporates her own pleasure and desire as a black women into her pornography acting as a self-aware voyeur and camera operator.

Houston received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Film from the San Francisco Art Institute.

After graduating, Houston worked at a Good Vibrations sex shop in the San Francisco Bay area for five years. While at Good Vibrations, Houston found an underserved need for queer-made pornography when customers asked for recommendations on the search for representation of their own sexual communities.

Community demand inspired Houston to band together with friends to make their own queer pornography. Houston founded Pink and White Productions and in 2008 launched the queer pornography distribution site CrashPadSeries.com. The company's first queer porn feature, Crash Pad, starring Jiz Lee, establishes the location of all the subsequent CrashPadSeries episodes. The Crash Pad is an apartment located in San Francisco dedicated to mutual pleasure based queer sex and Houston acts as Key Keeper to the Crash Pad. Houston incorporates into the scene her presence behind the camera via her own kink, and participation, as a voyeur. In the feature SuperFreak she stars as the ghost of Rick James. The ghost possesses people on a mission to turn the whole world into SuperFreaks having great sex. All models in Pink and White Productions videos seek them out, and Houston organizes scenes around the model’s personal fantasies. CrashPadSeries.com debuts episodic, reality-based queer pornography videos. The site is set up like a blog, featuring photos and identity profiles of the stars to make visible the alternate gender identities and sexualities represented in their videos. As of 2017, Houston is in post-production for their next feature, Snapshot, a horror film dedicated to complicating the limited "coming out" narrative predominantly featured in mainstream media.

• CineKink Choice Award for Best Narrative Feature” SNAPSHOT, 2017 Cinekink NYC
• Movie of the Year” SNAPSHOT, 2017 Toronto International Porn Festival
• Selected, BFI FLARE LGBT Film Festival London, SNAPSHOT
• “Audience Winner” CrashPad’s Guide to Fisting, La Fete du Slip
• “Best Orgasm” 2015 BRIEFS Erotic Short Film Competition CrashPad Romp Comp
• “Best Porn Studio” 2014 Best of the Bay, San Francisco Bay Guardian,
• Bed Party: Eden Alexander and Sebastian Keys – 2015 XBIZ Awards Nominated “Feminist Porn Release of the Year”
• CrashPadSeries.com – 2015 XBIZ Awards Nominated “Alternative Site of the Year”
• CrashPadSeries.com – 2015 AVN Awards Nominated “Specialty Site of the Year”
• Bed Party: Eden Alexander and Sebastian Keys – 2014 Feminist Porn Awards “Best Boygasm”
• Occupied: a queer hardcore romance for the 99% – 2014 XBIZ Awards “Feminist Porn Release of the Year”
• CrashPadSeries.com – 2014 XBIZ Awards “Specialty Site of the Year”
• PinkLabel.tv – 2014 XBIZ Nominated “Specialty Site of the Year”
• CrashPadSeries.com – 2014 TrannyAwards Nominated “Best Sex Scene”
• CrashPadSeries.com – 2011-2014 AVN Awards Nominated “Best Alternative Site”
• CrashPadSeries.com – 2012 Feminist Porn Awards Best Website
• HeavenlySpire.com – 2011 Feminist Porn Awards Best Website
• Crash Pad Series Volume 6 – Nominated 2011 Feminist Porn Awards
• “Audience Choice Award” 2010 Feminist Porn Awards – Crash Pad Series Volume 5 (Shawn & Mickey Mod)
• “Movie of the Year” 2009 Feminist Porn Awards – Champion: Love Hurts
• “Best Video Feature” Nomination 2010 AVN Awards – Champion: Love Hurts
• “Steamiest Trans Sex Scene” 2000 Feminist Porn Awards – Crash Pad Series Volume 2 (Julie & Michelle Aston)
• “Best Dyke Sex Film” 2008 Feminist Porn Awards – Crash Pad Series Volume 1
• “Best Trans Sex Scene” 2007 Feminist Porn Awards – The Wild Search (Papi Cox & Will Thrustwell)
• “Best Dyke Sex Scene” 2007 Feminist Porn Awards – Superfreak (Lorelei Lee, Princess Donna & Dana DeArmond)
• “Best Dyke Sex Scene” 2006 Feminist Porn Awards – The Crash Pad (Jiz Lee & Shawn)
• Selected, Outfest 2006, the 26th Annual Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
• Selected, 18th Annual Vancouver Queer Film Fest
• Selected, Cineffable 2006, Paris
• Vixens + Visionaries Independent Porn Awards – “Best Dyke Sex Scene” The Crash Pad

• A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women in Pornography by Mireille Miller-Young
• Black Female Sexualities edited by Trimiko Melancon
• Freeing Ourselves: A guide to Health and Self Love for Brown Bois by The Brown Boi Project
• Porn After Porn, “Mighty Real,” Shine Louise Houston, Sept 2014 (Reprinted with Permission in XBIZ Fall 2014 Issue)
• Porn for Pussies: Representations of Queer Female Sexuality in Shine Louise Houston’s Pornography by Engel Nicole, Presented at the National Women’s Studies Association

• Annie Sprinkle
• Joani Blank
• Rick James
• Radley Metzger
• Jim Jarmusch
• Alfred Hitchcock
• Michelangelo Antonioni