Inside Lara Roxx

Synopsis

In 2004, a Los Angeles porn actor found out he was HIV-positive and had infected three of his co-stars. One of them, 22-year-old Montrealer Lara Roxx, had worked in the industry for only two months. Her story was picked up by the tabloids, given the usual tsk-tsk and quickly forgotten. Inside Lara Roxx follows her over the next five years as she deals with physical and mental illness and crack addiction, returns to L.A. and Las Vegas to reappropriate her past and leads a campaign promoting condoms on set.

Director Biography

Is a filmmaker and award- winning photographer. She moved to Montreal at age seventeen to escape her hometown of Moncton, New Brunswick. As an artist Mia's work focuses on issues surrounding female sexual identity. Her most recent photographic works, Stripped and Peepshow, documents Montreal area sex workers.