Phone Sex Granny and Her Documentarian Son
Posted at 11:17 AM Jul 01, 2008
I was tipped off to this short film, Phone Sex Grandma, by Gloria Brame's blog, and it's damn entertaining, but it became even more fascinating when I started to look into where it came from.
The woman in the short film is Opal Dockery, a woman from Missouri who has spent many years in the sex industry. She was a single mom who raised two kids by working as a stripper, and her son Jack Truman became a filmmaker. The two worked together to create this short, as well as another short "The 60 Year Old Stripper," both of which have successfully played the festival circuit. They have also been working on a feature length documentary, "The Old Stripper," which involves a road trip.
Both the filmmaker and the star of the film have blogs now. Opal's blog is called The X-Rated Granny. In his first post on his blog Son of a Stripper John Truman writes:
My Mother, Opal, was a stripper of over 20 years in the 1970's and 80's. As a child, I grew up around nudity and pornography. I remember the days when I was 6, 7 years old, being backstage with the dancers while my Mother danced off in the distance on stage. I would be playing board games...like Monopoly, and checkers...with all of the nude dancers on the floor, while my Mother danced off in the distance. I grew up in this environment of adult entertainment for close to 20 years; very differnent from the norm. And I have a lifetime of experience to share with others.
--Audacia Ray
