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The only legal requirement is to prove you’re over 18, and you’re in. These aren’t just aspiring actresses pretending to be the girl next door they’re literally the girls next door. Sleazy opportunists like Riley, the 23-year-old Tampa “talent agent” who reps Tressa during the span of the film, post ads on Craigslist offering free travel and other perks (“hot girls wanted,” natch) and have no trouble finding takers from all over the country. It may sound extreme, but the filmmakers draw on their reporting backgrounds to build a potent case backing up the claim. According to the film, any young woman with an Internet connection and a longing to escape her present situation can get into porn. The documentary’s revelations will come as an eye-opener for many parents, the kind that hopefully inspire frank and honest conversations with their kids. From her excitement at getting into the business all the way through to her disillusioned exit, the co-directors managed to find a perfect representative for so many girls seduced and ultimately exploited by a ruthless and entirely unregulated industry. But it’s 19-year-old former cheerleader Tressa who provides the film’s primary arc. That could make the pic one of the year’s hottest doc titles, a position that the film’s considerable substance would duly reward.įormer print journalists making their second feature, Bauer and Gradus follow five different young women active in the bustling Florida porn scene (most are 18 or 19 years old, though one two-year veteran is 25 and already a “MILF”). Filmmakers Jill Bauer and Ronna Gradus adopt a slick but respectful approach, shrewdly playing the subject’s titillating elements to their advantage.

Just maybe not in the numbers some might think, given the staggering statistics on how many people already view the scores of online clips that use naive young women as so much grist for the mill. An intimate and ultimately harrowing peek inside the world of amateur porn, “Hot Girls Wanted” will shock and outrage audiences in equal measure.