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1 Company History
2 Company Philosophy
3 Current Events
4 External links
5 Sources

[edit] Company History

Video Team is a manufacturer and producer of high production value adult movies specializing in a black, interracial and ethnic product.

Born in 1961, white Christian Mann runs the company. Christian entered into black porn on a dare from a customer who became an investor. Previously he had presided over the gay porn powerhouse company Catalina and is a friend of drag queen Chi Chi LaRue. One of V.T.'s most popular series is its AVN Award Winning My Baby Got Back.

[edit] Company Philosophy

In an interview with journalist Luke Ford [1], Christian talks about the ethnic porn business.

Luke: It seems that most black product out there, particularly outside of Video Team, seems degrading to blacks, this ho ghetto mentality.

Chris: I think the X-rated business reflects what is happening culturally. Look at the music business. You see probably far more accepted example of degradation, misogyny and race baiting than you do in the X-rated video business. And I think that the people doing it don't have a racial agenda they're trying to set forth. I don't think there are any companies owned by skinheads that are trying to promote a certain image of black people... They're just trying to do what will sell product. When I look ethnic product made by white video companies or white producers and I look at product like Jake Steed's Freaks, Hos, Flos, which is black owned, distributed and directed, his product can be just as 'degrading and racially insensitive' as that product produced by the others. Everybody is just doing what they can to make their product stand out and sell. We don't have a race agenda beyond not crossing the line into what is racially insensitive or promoting a negative racial stereotype.

We highlight the difference between the races and there are differences... We feature black performers... We point that out. We don't live in a colorblind world. There are people who want to see black performers as opposed to blonde performers. But outside of that, we avoid mean or hateful stereotypes. All of our plots don't center around pimps, hos, and maids and gangsters and criminals and the other hateful, hurtful stereotypes. Do we always succeed? No.'

[edit] Current Events

Video Team markets its titles to the rental market and direct to consumers through its online mail-order site. They distributes their films to cable and satellite channels and offer movies to their Internet subscribers, who get full access to hundreds of their titles.

In March, 2006 Video Team was acquired by Amazing Networks, the parent company of Metro Home Video.