Chicago – Forbes has spotlighted multi-award-winning French Canadian adult director and writer Ricky Greenwood in an online piece called “How the Hardest Working Director in Porn Gets the Job Done,” penned by Senior Contributor Susannah Breslin.
Last month, Forbes Senior Contributor Susannah Breslin went on set for the making of Digital Playground’s “Project X,” directed by Ricky Greenwood and starring Mick Blue and Cherie DeVille. The piece has many key observations by Breslin and the backstory of how Ricky got into the adult arena and has made big-budget adult films/projects. Ricky talks about Michael Bay of “Transformers” fame as one of the directors he admires the most. Breslin really gets Ricky, mainly when she writes about “high production value being his signature.” Other interesting points in the Forbes feature include Ricky barely directing sex to make it more natural, caring about what he does, and wanting it to be good and his films being more than just porn to him. Ricky also discusses the differences in how Europe vs the US sees porn directors.
“I’m honored to be featured on Forbes in a piece that lends positivity to our industry. Susannah was a pleasure to have on set, and I’m thrilled with the article and photos. She really got me, and that definitely shone through in the feature,” says Ricky Greenwood.
Digital Playground’s “Project X” is slated for release in August. Read “How the Hardest Working Director in Porn Gets the Job Done” at forbes.com/sites/susannahbreslin/2024/07/26/how-the-hardest-working-director-in-porn-gets-the-job-done.
ABOUT RICKY GREENWOOD
In 2017, French Canadian adult director and writer Ricky Greenwood started in the industry with a push from Mile High Media Vice President John Blitt, who has always been a genius when it comes to spotting true talent. Ricky came from a mainstream background working in television, reality TV, documentaries, feature films, and shorts—all this prepared him to take over the adult industry in the last seven years.
The multi-award-winning director and writer is known for his story-driven feature films, like Confessions of a Sinful Nun 2: The Rise of Sister Mona, Terror Camp, Talk Derby to Me, Grinders, and Killer on the Loose. Over the past three years, he’s become known as a multi-faceted director that works in the straight, gay, trans, and lesbian realms, and has worked with top-shelf studios like Sweetheart Video, TransSensual, Icon Male, Marc Dorcel, Adult Time, AllHerLuv, Parasited, and MissaX. Ricky has won multiple XBIZ Awards for Director of Year -Body of Work (Narrative), All-Girl Movie of the Year, Best Editing, and Director of the Year- Trans (three times). From the AVN Awards, he’s won Director of the Year, Best Directing Portfolio – Cross-Genre, Grand Reel (twice) and Best Screenplay – Featurette from the AVN Awards. His additional wins include Best Lesbian Movie or Limited Series, Feature Movie of the Year and Best Girl/Girl Release from the Urban X Awards, Best Scene Producer (twice) from the TEAs, Best Ruining Xmas for Adult Time’s The Bargain from the Bazowie Awards, Best All-Girl Release Editor’s Choice and Best Feature Production Fans’ Choice from the NightMoves Awards, and Best AltStar Feature Video (twice) from the AltStar Awards, and Best Director – Features (twice) from the XRCO Awards.
He’s also received over 500 award nominations for his directing, scenes, art direction, screenplays, cinematography, and editing in all the genres he works in from AVN, XBIZ, TEAs, Fleshbot, NightMoves, XCritic, Urban X, XRCOs, and Inked Awards. Ricky has been featured in Forbes in July of 2024, Hustler twice and scored the cover and a 14-page feature in the September 2023 issue of ASN Lifestyle Magazine.
Ricky is one of the hardest-working men in adult and loves to give his audiences a glimpse into the projects he’s working on from start to finish in photos on his Twitter/X @RickyGreenwoodX and Instagram @x_ricky_greenwood_x. You might also see more than a few adult performers you know in his timelines and posts.