Adult performer/director Joanna Angel and her company Burning Angel Entertainment have been honored with 16 AVN Awards nominations, including nods for Best Director-Parody, Best All-Girl Group Sex Scene, Best Comedy, Best POV Release, Best Big Bust Release and Best POV Sex Scene.
Angel’s accomplishments are not limited to making movies; her landmark alt-porn BurningAngel.com site is the very model of success, thanks to Angel and her models, the now-famous BurningAngel Girls. The membership site boasts intimate live chat sessions with Angel and her Girls, as well up-to-the-minute XXX video clips and photos. BurningAngel.com earned three AVN nominations: Best Porn Star Website, Best Membership Website and Best Web Director.
“I am truly honored and thankful for all the nominations BurningAngel received,” said Angel. “I put my heart and soul into all of our releases and it’s moments like these when it all feels like it’s worth it.”
BurningAngel the company continues to grow under Angel’s watchful eye and remarkable talents, and AVN has recognized the star’s contributions in music (Best Soundtrack nomination), writing (Best Screenplay-Parody) and her powerful role in the adult industry (Best Marketing Campaign-Company Image).
“Thank you AVN for taking the time to consider our movies and accomplishments,” said Angel, “and for including us as a crucial part of the adult’s biggest awards show!”
ABOUT JOANNA ANGEL AND BURNINGANGEL
Pushing the envelope, the BurningAngel Empire is a refreshingly unique web cocktail of sex, rock n’ roll and pop culture. BurningAngel.com launched in 2002 with a few sets of photos and a band interview, conceived by two amateur college kids from Rutgers, Joanna Angel and Mitch Fontaine. Since its launch, it has exploded into a fierce indie company that has pioneered a new species of erotica known as “alt porn,” with a network of websites and hundreds of DVDs to its credit.
The company is revered for popularizing alternative style girls, and prides itself on delivering hardcore adult content alongside band interviews, record reviews and a community with its own social networking. As both the star of many of Burning Angel’s movies and the company’s spokesperson and owner, Joanna Angel has stormed both mainstream and adult media. She’s appeared on the cover of every major adult magazine (AVN, Club, Hustler, Picture Magazine, Adam Film World and Xtreme, to name a few) and has been featured in many tattoo magazines as well (some include Prick, Taboo, Inked and Savage). She has been featured on Fox News, Playboy TV, Fuse TV, G4 TV, KROQ Radio, as a regular on the Jason Ellis show on SIRIUS Radio, as a guest on the 2008 series premiere of TLC’s LA Ink, and in a speaking role on Adult Swim’s “Children’s Hospital.” She has also appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, The Village Voice, The New York Press, Esquire UK, Details and Penthouse, among others. Heeb Magazine featured Joanna as its cover girl, naming her one of the Top 100 Up-and-Coming Jews in 2005, and The New York Post featured her as one of the Top 25 Sexiest New Yorkers.
