Gunner de Medici
- Director
- Writer
- Editor
Born in New
Orleans and growing up in a military family in Hawaii and Delaware,
Gunner learned early on how be very chameleon-like. At age 12 he was
discovered by Ford Models during a family trip to New York. Although
modeling was not as glamorous as he had hoped, it proved to be very
lucrative in supporting his cult-like-following musical career, but was
short-lived when critics labeled his controversial stage productions as
too "over-the-top" for a male performer. This small setback and the
advice of several world re-known photographers to embrace his large
"asset" proved to be a winning combination, driving him to re-write the
rules. A natural innovator, Gunner paired his fine art skills and
experience in the fashion industry to pioneer the first "reality"
website called GunnerWorld.com, featuring all well-endowed men, which
not only documented him and his buddies in all their glory, but was
delivered with cutting-edge design and introduced interactive features
to home viewers. It became so popular, the ever growing fan base
(averaging 160,000 hits daily) deemed it the number one website in
Europe and one of the top ten websites in the world. It garnered so
much international attention that the BBC made a special United States
trip just to interview the phenom for "That Gay Show". His independent
popularity and entrepreneurial approach to self-produce, design, direct
and star in (as well as manage 152 other men) did not go unnoticed. He
was coined "Most Downloaded Dude" and awarded "Most Innovative Design"
as well as "Best Website." After capturing one niche Gunner was
approached by high-profile chef and at the time, porn star wannabe
Scott La Rock. Gunner took the reigns and
launched Hole and a Heartbeat, a strait website and production company.
While strait porn typically focuses on women...HH made it's tattooed
bad boys the stars...another first of it's kind. As Scott's career took
off Gunner was also able to launch many others, amongst them
Ricky Sinz, who then showed interest in the
gay side of porn. Gunner's tattoos were influenced by this very project
which in turn introduced yet another genre to the world of homo erotic
porn as well as catapulting Ricky Sinz into
super stardom. Presenting multiple new categories into porn, Gunner's
profound effect on the industry left some frantically trying to catch
up while grabbing the attention of many major studios. He landed with
'Raging Stallion Films' and after
negotiating a record breaking deal, Gunner became the highest paid
adult film star for a single film to date. To boot, it was the first
film to be named after a website entitling it "Gunner World".