'I accidentally became porn director even though I'm old-fashioned and prudish'

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job that you think you'd be able to just fall into.However, Alt Erotic CEO/Creative Director Ivan, who describes himself as "old-fashioned" and "prudish", says that's exactly what happened to him.The adult filmmaker, who has now been working in the industry for 20 years, said he never wanted to get into X-rated films.However, he is currently thriving as one of the top directors in the porn industry.As well as Alt Erotic, Ivan also his own website network - Puba - and has had his work featured on MTV's True Life as well as being a cast member on Playboy TV's Reality Show Kiki's American Adventure.Alongside this, he's bagged numerous porn awards, has his own podcast and YouTube channel with his porn star fiancée and has a documentary coming out too.But how did he end up here?Chatting exclusively to Daily Star, Ivan explained all.He told us: "I was working on a TV show and they had a local wrestling event going on."I've got a Bachelors degree in cinematography.

Getting into adult was never something I wanted to do - I wanted to be a horror filmmaker."But basically this wrestling event was owned by a pornographer.

My brother and I started helping out by shooting ringsider them, and I liked to use really artistic angles."They really liked what I was doing and asked me to shoot behind-the-scenes stuff and then things snowballed from there really."Ivan said he liked to 'show the girls' personalities' in his footage and made sure the shots were creative and funny.He added: "Reviewers started to notice me.

I also realised that a lot of pornographers at the time didn't know how to do simple things such as get the right lighting or white balance."I said to my boss 'If you're gonna pay them that kind of money, I can do it for half.