The Pornographer's Daughter

Liberty Bradford Mitchell has a story to tell and its a wild one. Liberty tells her story on stage in her one woman or so show "The Pornographer's Daughter". The gist of the show is her dad was Artie Mitchell one of the infamous Mitchell Brothers.  Liberty grew up surrounded by the porn industry like it or not. She often didn't like it but she has been able to recognize that her past has made her who she is today.
The story of the Mitchell Brothers is the story of the sexual revolution. They started off making short nudie films but realized there was a void and they filled it. Their ground breaking movie "Behind the Green Door" changed the way pornography was perceived; to a point. These guys had lots of nerve and entered their film into the Cannes Film Festival and it was accepted.
During this time Artie Mitchell was married and had three kids with his Ivy league Boston Brahmin wife. Their oldest child was Liberty. Life with the Mitchell's was not like that of their neighbors in the suburbs. Booze, drugs and sex were just part of the business of being a Mitchell brother. These are also the same things that eventually had detrimental effects on the Mitchell Brothers' family. Liberty's parents eventually divorced and Liberty came to realize that life was not "Little House on the Prairie". The teenage years reinforced her feelings of being an outsider and she started using her mother's surname to hide the fact she was a Mitchell from the kids at school. She further removed herself from the family by going to a prep school on the east coast.
When it was time to go to college Liberty returned to California and to the Mitchell family fold. Times and the business at the Mitchell Brothers' O'Farrell Theater had changed. Drinking and drugs had taken their toll on the brothers' lives. There was paranoia and gold digging surrounding them. This eventually came to a tragic and shocking end. Jim Mitchell shot and killed his younger Artie.
This was not the end of Liberty's story. She and her family had to face a trial and the relentless press coverage. Behind all of the melodrama was a family shattered and feelings of hatred and betrayal.
Liberty tells her story with the assistance of a band "The Fluffers" and  archival film projections. "The Pornographer's Daughter" is a multi-media experience that allows the viewer a look behind the Mitchell's door.