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- Eli Cross is an adult filmmaker who began his career making short films in Arizona, and eventually, after moving to Los Angeles in 1993, worked as a director at Roger Corman’s Concorde Studios. Cross directed four straight-to-video films for Corman, but eventually transitioned into the adult market. Under the name Mark Logan, Cross ran Adult Video News – the premiere trade magazine for the porn industry – from 1997-2001. After parting ways with AVN, Cross returned to directing, but as a pornographer. Unlike many adult industry professionals, Cross does not keep his birth name a secret. He has won awards, and keeps a blog, under his own name. He is best known for his films The Visitor (2003) from Elegant Angel, Epiphany (2004) from VCA Xplicit, Corruption (2006), Upload (2007), & Icon (2008) from SexZ Pictures, and The 8th Day, which Cross produced for Adam & Eve Pictures. Cross' biggest films have received significant acclaim in the adult industry. Corruption won 7 AVN Awards including Best Video, with Cross receiving Best Director - Video. Upload received 22 AVN Awards nominations, including a Best Director - Video nomination for Cross, and another win for Best Video. Both movies also received similar nominations and awards from XRCO, XBiz, Adam Film World Guide, and Nightmoves magazine. Icon received the AVN Award for Best High-End All-Sex Video in 2009, with Cross winning Best Director - All-Sex. In 2010, the Cross-produced The 8th Day won 7 AVN Awards including Best Video. In 2007, following the success of Corruption, Cross became Head of Production for SexZ Pictures. However, a dispute between Cross and SexZ over his work on The 8th Day created stress between Cross and Bo Kenney, the owner of SexZ. Press releases were issued stating that the two parties had resolved their differences, but in 2009, as Cross was in pre-production on a film called Daughter of the Wolf, SexZ abruptly released him from his contract. SexZ Pictures itself went out of business soon after, surviving as nothing more than a video-on-demand outlet equally devoted to selling herbal supllements. Cross is currently producing and directing adult features for French magazine Hot Vidéo, the most recent being the comedy Kiss of the Strangler. He has also begun working frequently with award-winning adult director Axel Braun as a screenwriter, producer, and camera operator. He recently filled all three of these positions on Braun's big-budget parody of Star Wars: A New Hope, Star Wars XXX: A Porn Parody. Cross was the significant other of adult actress Kylie Ireland from February of 2002 until they split in April, 2010. She has since married, and Cross' relationship status is single according to his Twitter account. His stage name comes from the character played by Peter O'Toole in the 1980 film The Stunt Man.
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