WWW- Daniel Metcalf Public Relations is now repping gorgeous Danish actress Gry Bay, star of the controversial English language smash hit ALL ABOUT ANNA. North American distribution plans for the controversial film, which also features Mark Stevens of ALIEN VS. PREDATOR fame and European adult film star Ovidie, were finalized over the past several weeks. This most unusual project, which features a mainstream cast participating in explicit hardcore sex scenes, is an Innocent Pictures production in association with Zentropa Productions, and will be distributed in the U.S. later this year exclusively by Wicked Pictures.

A compelling erotic comedy about a lonely young woman’s search for love in the story-driven tradition of adult entertainment’s “Golden Age” classics, ALL ABOUT ANNA has been both charming and titillating audiences across Europe thanks to its heady mixture of insightful humor and fully explicit sexuality.

A mainstream television and film star in her native Denmark, gorgeous Gry Bay (groo’-eh bye) has entertained American audiences before, touring the United States as a vocalist for acts as diverse as Kid Creole and Crispy/XPY. Readers of both FHM Denmark and Europe’s popular M have repeatedly voted this shapely, charismatic beauty onto both magazines’ 100 Sexiest Girls in the World lists. For Gry, the film’s U.S. release could not have come at a better time, since having conquered television, stage, and screen in Europe, she’s now eager to begin working on American independent films.

Regarding the introduction of this hit European film and its luminous star to North American audiences, the film’s U.S publicist, Metcalf, reveals that “Gry is very sincere in her desire to raise her profile on the indie film scene, and will happily accommodate any interview requests, whether its by phone or email now, or in a formal press interview setting when she comes to the States later this year.”

Metcalf is also the webmaster of the film’s U.S. website, http//www.myspace.com/allaboutannathemovie, which gives netizens access to an up-to-date EPK with cast and crew biographies, an exclusive clip from the movie, interviews with some of the film’s creators, breaking news on the movie from around the world, and an exclusive photo gallery.

ALL ABOUT ANNA is a new type of erotic film, based on real life rather than on the wish-fulfilling fantasies that characterize traditional sex movies. It portrays a type of woman with whom we all are familiar, fighting with problems most women know all too well.

The film is also an attempt to integrate explicit sex as part of the storytelling and character development. Thus, the film’s sex scenes are part of defining the characters and their relationships. Without the sex scenes, the film’s drama would fall apart.

Striving for optimal realism, ALL ABOUT ANNA was shot on location in Copenhagen and Paris. The romantic prologue and flashbacks were shot at sea on an Greenlandic icebreaker, a bittersweet conversation was shot in front of the Eiffel Tower, and the story’s emotional climax features such landmarks as Copenhagen’s Royal Castle, usually off-limit to film crews. The scenes in Anna’s apartment were shot in the real apartment of actress Gry Bay. Here, the film’s first major sex scene was performed repeatedly by Gry and Thomas Raft in front of a huge window, witnessed by astonished neighbors while traffic and everyday life passed by on the busy city street outside.

ALL ABOUT ANNA marks the culmination of the gradual move towards the use of explicit images in art house cinema which was initiated by Lars Von Trier’s The Idiots. Renowned for their search for cinematic truth, realism and new means of expression, Lars Von Trier, Zentropa, and Innocent Pictures have truly brought erotic cinema into the 21st Century.