From the "former sex worker taking Hollywood by storm" (The Daily Beast), comes a candid and hilarious memoir of sex work, shame, and self-discovery set in the colorful world of live-streaming camgirls.
At twenty-three, Isa Mazzei was just like any other college graduate: broke, lacking purpose, and searching for an identity. She was also a compulsive seductress with a reputation as a slut and heartbreaker. One day, while working a low-paying retail job, she had a revelation: why not embrace her salacious image and make some money off of it?
She began stripping, dancing, masturbating, playing games, making art--and broadcasting it all online for money as a camgirl. In her first month, she racked up hundreds of nightly viewers, and within a year she ranked in the top fifty girls on a site featuring tens of thousands of performers. Over the course of her career, Isa built her own business, explored BDSM, attended a porn convention, slept with a fan, and pushed herself further than she thought possible. And yet, despite her success, she struggled to fit into the community she so desperately wanted to belong to.
Camgirl is a relatable look at confronting our past traumas and accepting ourselves for who we are. It masterfully explores the complexities of digital life, sexuality and the tensions between our private and public selves. Mazzei's biting humor and raw vulnerability ensure you'll never think about sex work-or sex-the same way again.
Industry Reviews
"Brutally funny!"
-Entertainment Weekly
"Mazzei leaves no taboo left untouched. A grippingly intimate and self-aware look into some of our darkest compulsions, Camgirl is a nuanced portrait of sex work and self-discovery. If we were all as willing to get down into the trenches with ourselves, the world would likely be a more compassionate place."
-Glamour
Praise for the film Cam
One of Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of Independent Film 2018
"Mazzei mercilessly knot[s]...fears together into a gruesome zeitgeisty fable that invokes a number of monsters (influencer culture, cybersecurity, male desire), and none of them are sex work or women's sexuality. Rather, they use our caricatured imagination of sex work to their advantage, yanking the rug out from under the audience again and again."
-Paper
"...a Hitchcockian mystery that never once looks down on its fierce protagonist."
-Vice
"...one of the best movies of the year."
-?Flood Magazine
