Porn for Newbies (Spanish: Porno para principiantes) is a 2018 Uruguayan-Argentine-Brazilian comedy film directed by Carlos Ameglio and written by Ameglio, Leonel D'Agostino and Bruno Cancio. Starring Martín Piroyansky and Nicolás Furtado. The film was named on the shortlist for Uruguayan's entry for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards, but it was not selected.
Synopsis
Víctor, an amateur filmmaker, is about to sell his camera in order to get married, when a not very legal "businessman" named Boris, offers him to direct a film. Excited, he accepts the proposal, but what he did not expect is that he would end up filming a porn version of Bride of Frankenstein. His friend Aníbal, a video store employee obsessed with pornography, will accompany him on the mission. Everything will get complicated when Víctor falls in love with the protagonist of his film, the international porn star Ashley Cummings.
Cast
The actors participating in this film are:
Martín Piroyansky as Víctor Medina
Nicolás Furtado as Aníbal
Carolina Mânica as Ashley Cummings
Daniel Aráoz as Boris
Nuria Fló as Leticia
Roberto Suárez as Father Simón
Denny Brechner as Joaquín
Jorge Bazzano as Néstor
Production
Principal photography began in November 2017 and ended one month later in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Release
It had its world premiere on November 16, 2018, at the 33rd Mar del Plata International Film Festival. It was commercially released on October 3, 2019, in Uruguayan and Argentine theaters.