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...Tanya V. Bezreh ’95 walked through Harvard Yard last Saturday, a friend asked what it was like to be a Harvard graduate. “Doors really swung open for me,” Bezreh joked. “I had to make a lot of porn to get those doors to stop swinging open.” An alum who has made her name creating and starring in short erotic films, Bezreh is one of several Harvard students, past and present, who have embraced an industry not usually associated with the Harvard brand name...
...Tanya V. Bezreh ’95 walked through Harvard Yard last Saturday, a friend asked what it was like to be a Harvard graduate. “Doors really swung open for me,” Bezreh joked. “I had to make a lot of porn to get those doors to stop swinging open.” An alum who has made her name creating and starring in short erotic films, Bezreh is one of several Harvard students, past and present, who have embraced an industry not usually associated with the Harvard brand name...
...Bezreh decided that she should star as the spanked strawberry that bares all. “It was unclear whether HBO would be kind,” she says. “I didn’t know if it was going to be exploitative and if anyone was going to be exploited I wanted it to be me.” Bezreh easily recruited friends for chorus members, but had trouble casting the dominant stagehand. “He had to have a terrifying presence,” she says. She eventually found an actor at Spooky World...
Since filming “The Naughty Garden,” Bezreh says she’s expanding her work to help others. “Strawberry Scene” is Bezreh’s initiative to encourage discourse on sexual fetishes and offer outreach to people who want to better understand their fantasies through activities such as a fetish essay-writing contest. “Tanyavision” is her video diary series detailing her life during the making of “The Naughty Garden.” Finally, Bezreh has founded the Society for the Appreciation...
While the positive reaction from her fellow filmmakers was relieving, Bezreh was more concerned with her parents’ reaction. To her chagrin and delight, Bezreh’s parents left a message of qualified approval on the phone: “We thought it wasn’t very embarrassing and we’re very proud of you,” Bezreh recalls her father saying. “But the full frontal nudity was a little much...